How the massive ‘flow battery’ coming to an Army facility in Colorado will work
Rob Verger - Yesterday 7:00 PM
Fort Carson, an Army facility south of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is set to get a very large new battery. The groundbreaking for the new energy-storage system is set for this fall, and the contractor behind it, Lockheed Martin, says it could take some eight or nine months to build it.
The battery will be able to produce a megawatt of electricity for as long as 10 hours, meaning that it is a 10-megawatt-hour device. But this battery is very different from the kind of battery that is in your cell phone, laptop, or electric vehicle. It’s not a lithium-ion battery. It’s a redox flow battery.
In a press release, Lockheed Martin refers to the project as “the first megawatt-scale, long-duration energy storage system for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).” Here’s what to know about the Fort Carson project and the energy storage devices called flow batteries.
Why is the DOD interested in energy storage?
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