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Reply to Scientists lower price of lithium's best competition - flow batteries - by 20%. Makes the battery effectively equal to or cheaper than lithium ion when spread over 30 years (flow battery lifetimes are effectively infinite with light repowering efforts). by PorkyPigDid911
tried to buy some flow batteries a few years ago for a 1mwh battery system. i couldn't find any company that could provide a reference for an actual real customer. lots of vaporware and "we actually installed this only once and no you can't have a reference" companies out there.
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Reply to comment by PorkyPigDid911 in Scientists lower price of lithium's best competition - flow batteries - by 20%. Makes the battery effectively equal to or cheaper than lithium ion when spread over 30 years (flow battery lifetimes are effectively infinite with light repowering efforts). by PorkyPigDid911
i spent a lot of time with both those vendors as recently as 2021. ESS couldn't give me a real customer reference and redflow's business is collapsing. they did $2.2 million in sales for 2021 and they dropped to $1.6 in sales in 2022.