Invinity Energy Systems (AIM:IES) has agreed to sell a 2 MWh Endurium Enterprise battery system for a DOE-funded microgrid project at a tribal facility on the Bad River reservation in Ashland, Wisconsin.
The project, Project VITALITY, will demonstrate the company's vanadium flow batteries in commercial and industrial applications and is part of a $4.7m award from the U.S. Department of Energy led by muGrid Analytics in partnership with the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribe.
"Project VITALITY will accelerate the optimisation of our Enterprise product for customers in the U.S., while delivering operational data from the field to help further validate and enhance the value we deliver to those customers," said Matt Harper, President at Invinity.
Invinity expects to receive $3.36m of the $4.7m grant to fund the manufacture and delivery of the 2 MWh system and to support further product development activity for its Endurium Enterprise product in the United States.
The battery system is planned for delivery next year and is anticipated to be manufactured in the USA.
Operational data from the demonstration will be shared with the U.S. DOE's rapid operational validation initiative, consistent with Invinity's recent 12 MWh sale to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
