The U.S. Trade and Development Agency awarded a grant to Bushveld Energy Company (Pty) Ltd, a South African energy storage solutions company, for a pilot project to demonstrate the performance of an energy storage system in South Africa using technology from UniEnergy Technologies, LLC of Mukilteo, WA.
The goal of the pilot is to demonstrate how UniEnergy’s vanadium redox flow battery technology can reduce energy costs for commercial and industrial operations, offset the need to use diesel and other fossil fuels for peaking power, increase the capacity of South Africa’s electric grid to successfully integrate renewable electricity generation sources, and improve the operating efficiently of existing baseload plants.