Invinity discusses vanadium flow batteries for long-duration storage

Invinity Energy Systems announced it has been selected by Flexbase to design a 1.5 gigawatt-hour vanadium flow battery (expandable to 2.1 GWh) for a technology center in Laufenberg, with engineering through 2027 and fulfillment beginning in 2027.

• Main announcement: Invinity was selected by Flexbase to design a 1.5 GWh (stretch to 2.1 GWh) vanadium flow solution for the Laufenberg technology center (a grid junction near Germany/France/Switzerland); the project will support an AI data center technology campus, move into the engineering phase through end of 2026 into 2027, and fulfillment from 2027 onward.
• Background and other details: Invinity reported >2,000 battery modules delivered, 9 GWh of dispatched cycled throughput and 96.3% availability; the company has facilities in Motherwell/Bathgate (Scotland) and Vancouver (Canada), cites the VAHAS project and Copwood (21 MWh) as recent deployments, and said U.S. domestic supply is expected in Q4 this year.