March 28, 2015: SunEdison, Inc. is planning to purchase up to 1000 vanadium flow batteries (over 100 megawatt hours) from Imergy Power Systems. These batteries will be used to save solar-generated electricity for SunEdison’s rural electrification and solar powered mini-grid projects in India.
In a news published by Bloomberg, Ahmad Chatila , president and chief executive officer of SunEdison said, “Energy storage is the perfect complement to solar powered minigrids because it enables us to provide dependable, 24/7 electricity. And Imergy’s technology is a great fit for rural electrification because their systems are high performance, low cost, ultra-durable and need very little maintenance.”
“Imergy is proud to be working with SunEdison to bring electricity to the under-served in rural India ,” stated Bill Watkins , chief executive officer of Imergy Power Systems. “Imergy’s storage systems are safe and sustainable, and provide the lowest cost and most reliable way to store energy for these minigrids.”
