Nature Energy, Published online: 23 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41560-026-02053-2 Despite early promise, vanadium flow batteries struggled to move beyond pilot projects due to bottlenecks that emerged at scale. Overcoming these barriers to enable reliable, cost-effective long-duration energy storage at multi-hundred-megawatt scale is discussed by Xianfeng Li and colleagues.
Nature Energy, Published online: 23 June 2026;
doi:10.1038/s41560-026-02053-2
Despite early promise, vanadium flow batteries struggled to move beyond pilot projects due to bottlenecks that emerged at scale. Overcoming these barriers to enable reliable, cost-effective long-duration energy storage at multi-hundred-megawatt scale is discussed by Xianfeng Li and colleagues.
— Source: Nature Energy (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02053-2)