MELODY Project

The future is electric. The world’s energy system is on the verge of a revolution, moving from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable resource economy. To enable this transition, a large amount of flexibility needs to be added to the electricity system. Storage will be key but to be viable and sustainable it will require both operational costs low enough for an attractive return on investment and access to sufficient materials to produce the necessary volumes. It is critical that storage technology is based on low cost, elementally abundant active materials. Redox Flow Batteries (RFB) are a key enabling technology for the energy transition. Mass market introduction of RFBs has been hampered by various factors – material scarcity and cost (e.g. vanadium based RBF), limited catalyst lifetime, membrane costs, system complexity and safety issues. The development of an economically viable, environmentally benign and sustainable redox-flow battery (RFB) storage systems is therefore eagerly awaited. MELODY will develop a sustainable RFB technology that is able to reduce the costs of electricity storage to an absolute minimum.