• Kibo Energy and Enerox signed an agreement to install electricity storage systems.
Renewable energy producer Kibo Energy has signed a partnership agreement with Enerox, the developer of the CellCube brand to develop and install electricity storage systems in Southern Africa.
The partnership between the Enerox Group and Kibo Energy covers the marketing, sales, configuration and delivery of electricity storage systems. Under the brand name CellCube, the Austrian company Enerox has developed vanadium redox flow batteries (VFRB). Unlike the lithium-ion storage technology currently widely deployed in Africa, VFRB is an electrochemical battery using vanadium connections in a liquid electrolyte as the active material for energy storage.
The liquid electrolyte is located in the tanks of the power unit and is pumped from there through the electrochemical cells (the batteries). The electrochemical reactions cause electrons to move between vanadium ions in different states of charge. Thus, chemical energy is converted into electrical energy (discharge) or electrical energy is converted into chemical energy (charge). Enerox is currently deploying its storage systems in North America and Australia.