Vanadium Redox Batteries are the solution to what many consider the 'Achilles Heel' of renewable energy - mass energy storage. Here's some facts on the VRB for your readers:

Benefits of Vanadium Redox Batteries (VRB’s):
* > 20-year battery life
* Only battery that rapidly charges and discharges with little effect on battery life
* No limit on size
* >10,000 cycles per battery
* No chemical reaction so batteries do not degrade or get "consumed" over time
* Cheapest solution to mass energy storage
* High volumes of vanadium required (we plan to supply it in the US.)

Existing VRB Mass Storage Facilities :

* 1.5 MW UPS system in a semiconductor fabrication plant in Japan (Using 75 tons of V205 solution worth approximately $1M)

* 275 kW output balancer in use on a wind power project in the Tomari Wind Hills of Hokkaido

* 200 kW, 800 kWh (2.9 GJ) output leveler in use at the Huxley Hill Wind Farm on King Island, Tasmania

* 250 kW, 2 MWh (7.2 GJ) load leveler in use at Castle Valley, Utah (Using 112 tons of V2O5 solution, worth approximately $1.5M)

* Two 5-kW units installed at Safaricom GSM site in Katangi and Njabini, Winafrique Technologies, Kenya

* Two 5-kW units installed in St. Petersburg, FL, under the auspices of USF's Power Center for Utility Explorations

Read all about VRB's and the vanadium-lithium batteries coming out for electric cars here: http://www.twitter.com/AVCVanadium news feed.

Sincerely,

Michael Hyslop
Director of Corporate Development
American Vanadium Corp.

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