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The Virtual Battery Day 2024 will be held online on 13 November and it welcomes everyone involved in the battery value chain, from research and development, material production and the manufacturing of cell components to quality control and recycling. Beata Virsumirska, FBE’s Policy Officer will feature online at the event, who will present about FBE’s […]
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6 November 2024: At yesterday’s parliamentary hearing, it was promising to hear the Commissioner-designate for Energy and Housing, Dan Jørgensen’s commitment to deploy more renewable energy along with new energy storage technology. During the hearing, he mentioned that the EU needs to deploy more renewable energy, which would require extending grids, boosting digitalisation and new […]
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Europe’s leading management battery conference & expo The Future Battery Forum 2023 exceeded all expectations. Over 1,000 top level decision makers from the entire battery value system gathered in Berlin with the common goal to build up an innovative, resilient and sustainable European battery industry together and foster the European battery community. In 2024, the […]
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31 October 2024: Over 120 participants attended the Flow Batteries Europe (FBE) webinar on 30 October 2024 celebrating the 40th anniversary of vanadium flow batteries (VFB). The webinar featured an exclusive interview with Emeritus Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos AM (University of New South Wales), the initial developer of the first vanadium flow battery. FBE’s Secretary General, […]
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24 October 2024: Yesterday, the European Commission selected 85 innovative net-zero projects to receive €4.8 billion in grants from the Innovation Fund, supporting the implementation of cutting-edge clean technologies across Europe. Among these is a project featuring a hybrid energy storage system that combines lithium-ion and vanadium flow batteries, directly linked to a large-scale solar […]
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18 October 2024: This week, the FBE team had the opportunity to attend the 7th annual Energy Storage Global Conference (ESGC), organised by the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) in Brussels. The event brought together over 300 delegates from across the energy storage sector. The first day focused on policies and the regulatory […]
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The flow battery workshop, organised by FLORES on behalf of MELODY, CuBER and HYBRIS projects, will take place online on 24 Oct, 2024 (13:00 – 17:00 CET). This workshop will include a series of presentations that highlight ongoing flow battery projects, offering a deeper understanding of recent developments and exploring a range of innovations in […]
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We invite you to join us for a webinar celebrating the 40th anniversary of vanadium flow batteries! It will take place online on 30 October (09:00 – 10:00 CET). The webinar will welcome Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, an Australian chemical engineer best known for her pioneering work of the vanadium flow battery, which she created at the […]
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12 September 2024: The European Commission’s long-awaited report on the Future of EU Competitiveness by Mario Draghi was released this week and sets the role in the shaping of the new European Commission’s strategic direction. The report outlines the challenges Europe faces, such as slower productivity growth compared to the U.S. and China and the […]
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