The company hosted visitors at the facility for the Vancouver facility’s official opening last week (16 June). The visit coincided with a US$380,000 grant from the British Columbia Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE), an independent not-for-profit that funds clean energy technologies originating in the region.

The grant from CICE will support the manufacture and deployment of a 1.2MWh project near its production facility, called Mistral. Further details of the project, which Invinity said will use its “next-generation vanadium flow battery”, will be announced later in 2023.

“As the number of intermittent renewable energy sources grows, so does the need for world-class energy storage technology that can stabilise utility grids. Invinity Energy Systems has exceptional global market potential and is quickly becoming a recognised leader in this field,” said Dr. Ged McLean, Executive Director of CICE.

The company has been recently moving up to larger project sizes, securing a 15MWh order from Taiwan last year before winning a grant from the UK government to partially fund a 30MWh system connected to National Grid’s network.

Speaking to Energy-Storage.news whilst at Energy Storage Summit USA in March this year, Invinity’s VP business development Matthew Walz said the company is in talks for 100MWh-plus projects from 2025 onwards.

He also described Invinity’s solution as an “excellent fit” for the US Department of Energy’s US$330 million in grant funding for non-lithium long duration energy storage projects, for which award notices are expected to be announced this summer.