The redox flow battery — an emerging energy-storage technology — could enable diesel-powered microgrids to run off renewable energy instead. Solar- or wind-powered microgrids are a hot topic ...

Conceived for the storage of residential and large scale renewable energy, the device has a rated power of over 150mW/cm 2, an energy density exceeding 40Wh/L, and a power density of 72.5mW/cm 2.

The redox flow battery showed a capacity decay rate of just 0.005% per day for 1,200 cycles, and a lifetime with over 2,000 hours’ cycling, which the academics said corresponds to approximately ...