“Under the eaves of a four-storey building in southern Gothenburg, the batteries of the future are being developed”.
Tidningen Energi recently visited us and stepped into what they called “The future lab”. Dressed in white lab coats, our CTO Dr. Lisa Åkerlund and Research Scientist Dr. Eduardo Maurina Morais gave them a guided tour of Rivus’ lab operations, sharing our recent progress in developing and commercializing a metal-free battery chemistry for flow batteries.
- “The last year has been full of progress, we have moved to new premises, built up our own lab, and set up a test operation with eight parallel stations at the same time, soon expanding to 24. We also build all the batteries ourselves and have developed the battery chemistry to be even better than the formulation we had before”. – Lisa Åkerlund
Today’s flow batteries rely on vanadium, a costly, environmentally damaging heavy metal sourced, primarily from China, Russia, and South Africa. At Rivus, we take a different approach, using organic molecules derived from widely available materials, combined with water and salt, to produce our electrolytes.
Rivus’ first major demonstration is now underway, installing our first customer pilot in the first half of next year. The building has solar panels, and the goal is to do tests for over a year and to demonstrate that the system works. It will be the first organic flow battery to be tested in a commercial system in Sweden. Dr. Cedrik Wiberg, Rivus’ CEO and founder, is optimistic about the future.
- “I think that when one of the industrial giants has decided to use organic flow batteries, the market will really take off.” – Cedrik Wiberg
Thank you, Tidningen Energi, for an insightful article that highlights the importance of the green energy transition and the role that long duration energy storage solutions, like Rivus’s organic flow battery technology, can play in accelerating the transition to renewable energy sources.
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