No One Wants to Ship Water: The Energy Security Case for Flow Batteries

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This episode discusses the importance of long-duration energy storage and its role in the energy transition with Min Tang from Rongke Power.

Get in touch - leave me a message No one wants to ship water around the world. That one line says a lot about the next phase of energy storage. In this episode of Climate Confident, I’m joined by Min Tang, Director of International Business at Rongke Power, one of the world’s leading vanadium flow battery companies. We get into why long-duration storage is moving from climate tech side-story to core grid infrastructure, and why that matters for decarbonisation, energy transition planning, net...

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Host: Tom Raftery

Guest: Min Tang

Topics covered

• energy storage
• flow batteries
• decarbonisation
• energy transition
• grid infrastructure

Keywords

• energy security
• vanadium flow batteries
• climate tech
• long-duration storage
• net zero

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Organizations: Rongke Power

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