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Energy storage
Innovation and Industry

Energy storage : Our strengths

Energy storage Our strengths Expertise throughout the R&I chain: • Electrochemistry: testing and characterization resources on all representative scales, from the material through to the system: o For flow batteries: compartmentalized electrochemical cells, stack and module integrated into an electricity grid. o For Li-ion batteries: cell (button cell, pouch cell)
Energy storage
Innovation and Industry

Energy storage : Our solutions

IFPEN focuses its activities on improving electric energy surface storage processes, adapted to network services, such as microgrids. Energy Management Systems (EMS) / Advanced Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage (AA-CAES) / Electrochemical storage via Redox Flow Batteries
Energy storage
Innovation and Industry

Energy storage

Energy storage OVERVIEW AND CHALLENGES The energy transition targets an increasingly low-carbon economy. Observation Problem electricity produced on a large scale from renewable sources, primarily wind and solar >> variable production decentralized electricity production variable production and difficulty balancing electricity supply and demand; risk of disruption to electricity supplies in
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Stored heat

Energy storage, one of the major challenges within the context of the energy transition, can take a variety of forms. For heat storage, one of the solutions developed at IFPEN is based on a fixed