A New Vanadium Flow Battery For A Rural Electric CooperativeSnapping Shoals EMC“The member-owned electric cooperative provides electric service to approximately 100,000 homes and businesses in an eight-county area that includes large portions of Newton, Henry, and Rockdale counties, as well as parts of DeKalb, Butts, Walton, Jasper, and Morgan counties,” Snapping Shoals says of itself.
umbrella. Cooperatives were established during the Great Depression, when local communities organized to take advantage of new federally funded electrification opportunities that private-sector investors were ignoring.that can enable them to explore new clean power and energy storage technologies.. What Snapping Shoals learns from its flow battery in Georgia will not stay in Georgia.
“Stryten Energy’s partnership with Snapping Shoals will focus on demonstrating the VRFB’s [Vanadium Redox Flow Battery] energy storage capabilities, as well as evaluating additional use cases for,” Stryten enthused in a press release earlier this week. “As our field turns its eye to clean energy sources, we see Stryten Energy as a natural partner in harnessing the power of VRFB for long-duration energy storage,” says Shaun Mock, who is CEO and President of Snapping Shoals.