Safe energy storage! Norway's First All Vanadium Flow Battery System Put into Use at a Food Plaza in a Commercial District

Recently, Norway's first all vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) was officially unveiled, with a battery system size of 5kW/25kWh, installed in the food plaza building in Trondheim.
The local company Bryte Batteries installed a 5kW/25kWh vanadium flow battery system in the Sluppen commercial district of Trondheim, which is owned by real estate development company R. Kjeldsberg. It is installed in a previous warehouse that has been renovated into a food plaza, as shown in the above image.
Pinflow provides vanadium flow batteries, and Bryte will optimize them through its Energy Management System (EMS) platform.
Ellen Loxley, the development leader of Bryte Batteries, stated that the system will mainly be used for peak shaving and flexibility markets. The project is partially funded by state-owned companies and Norwegian Innovation Bank, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology will evaluate how it can be used in the flexible market. For future projects, Loxley said, "Other facilities will be larger and will be on an industrial scale. This project will only be used for demonstration purposes, although future installations will also perform peak shaving, arbitrage, and service for the flexibility market
The company stated that the majority of demand for its energy storage solutions comes from real estate, transportation, and land-based fish farming.
Due to the fact that almost all of Norway's electricity demand is served by its massive hydroelectric power generation, the country's demand for new energy storage is relatively low, so downstream demand, especially in terms of grid size, has been calm.
On the upstream side, some companies headquartered there have made significant progress in battery production (FREYR Company), recycling (Northvolt Company), and reusing used EV batteries for secondary energy storage (Evyon Company). Statkraft is a state-owned company that operates its hydroelectric portfolio and is also very active internationally in the renewable energy sector, especially in Ireland's energy storage sector.