Ferro-Alloy Resources has highlighted the scale of vanadium that could be required as vanadium flow batteries move into much larger energy storage projects.
The latest example is Invinity Energy Systems being selected to design a gigawatt-hour scale vanadium flow battery for FlexBase Group’s Technology Centre Laufenburg in Switzerland. The planned battery is expected to have capacity of up to 1.5 GWh, with the potential to expand to 2.1 GWh in later phases. If completed at that scale, it would become the largest vanadium flow battery in the world.
Ferro-Alloy Resources estimates that a battery of this scale would require around 17,000 tonnes of V2O5. That is a material quantity for a single storage project and shows why secure vanadium supply could become increasingly important as larger batteries are developed.
The project is intended to support a technology campus and AI data centre, while also helping with renewable energy integration and grid stability. These are areas where long-duration storage is likely to remain relevant, especially as electricity demand rises and grids need more flexibility.
Large vanadium flow battery projects create a clearer demand case for vanadium, and that demand case is central to how investors assess companies with exposure to future vanadium supply.
Ferro-Alloy Resources Ltd (LON:FAR) is developing the giant Balasausqandiq vanadium deposit in Kyzylordinskaya oblast of southern Kazakhstan. The ore at this deposit is unlike that of nearly all other primary vanadium deposits and is capable of being treated by a much lower cost process.
