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Invinity's Largest Battery Goes Live
Invinity's Largest Battery Goes Live.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n \n22 September 2023\nInvinity Energy Systems plc\n \n(\"Invinity\" or the \"Company\")\n \nInvinity's Largest Battery System to Date Goes Live\nThe Chappice Lake Solar & Storage system is now powering the Alberta Grid\n \nInvinity Energy Systems plc (AIM: IES) (AQSE: IES) (OTCQX: IESVF) a leading global manufacturer of utility-grade energy storage, is pleased to announce that the Company's Canadian partner Elemental Energy has officially commenced operation of its 8.4 MWh Invinity VS3 vanadium flow battery (\"VFB\") at their Chappice Lake Solar & Storage Project site in Alberta, Canada (see picture below). This is Invinity's largest operational battery to date, and the largest vanadium flow battery serving the North American grid.\n \n\n \nLocated in one of the sunniest places in Canada and in a province historically known as one of North America's major centres for oil production, the project features a 21 MWp solar array coupled with an 8.4 MWh VFB. A Canadian first in terms of size and application, this project will now generate enough dispatchable, low-cost, low-carbon electricity to serve the needs of over 7,000 Alberta residents with clean, on-demand solar power and is targeting carbon savings of approximately 20,000 tCO2e per year.\n \n\nAbove: Inside the 8.4 MWh Invinity VS3 vanadium flow battery system at Chappice Lake, Alberta, Canada\n \nAt the ribbon-cutting event held yesterday at the site near Medicine Hat, Alberta, representatives from Elemental Energy and Invinity joined a broad range of project partners and stakeholders to celebrate this exciting phase of the project. These included representatives from project funder Emissions Reduction Alberta, ownership partner Cold Lake First Nations, and representatives from many of the engineering, technical and construction service providers who contributed to the project.\n \n\nAbove: Jamie Houssian, Principal, Elemental Energy and Heather Bishop, Director of Economic Development, Cold Lake First Nations with representatives from Invinity and invited guests at the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Chappice Lake Solar & Storage project\n \nInvinity's Vancouver-based partner on the project Elemental Energy is a leading private renewable energy development company with over 100 MW of wind, solar and hydro pro...