Quino Energy

CEO Eugene Beh will pitch Quino Energy's innovative flow battery technology during Plug and Play Tech Center's upcoming Silicon Valley Energy Selection Day! This event will showcase top startups in hydrogen, LDES, and digital transformation and offer an opportunity for Eugene to introduce flow batteries, their use cases, and market opportunity to partners, investors, and industry decision-makers. Hope to see you there! #LDES #startup #flowbattery #energystorage

Quino Energy CEO Eugene Beh is heading to Houston for CERAWeek! Quino was selected to participate in the Energy Venture Day and Pitch Competition, co-hosted by Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, the Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI) and TEX-E. Eugene will introduce how Quino's organic #flowbatteries can support the energy transition through our low cost, non-flammable, and domestically manufactured battery active material, which can be rolled out immediately to multiple shovel-ready projects. There will be two opportunities to see his pitch: On 3/11, at the Ion Houston for the Pitch Preview and on 3/12 in the #CERAWeek2025 Innovation Agora. We hope to see you there!

Did you know? In mid-to-long duration storage applications, the cost of energy capacity (i.e. flow battery electrolytes) can account for more than half of the system's total cost. By using a quinone - made from inexpensive and available coal chemicals and petroleum aromatics - as the raw material, Quino’s organic electrolyte has an energy a cost floor about four times lower than vanadium electrolyte. Learn more about our technology and its advantages on our website ?? #flowbattery #chemisty #energystorage?

Space constrains many energy storage operations. The more land a solar and storage system occupies, for example, the more it will cost. It isn't just the cost of the land, but also on things as mundane as pouring a concrete pad. Our energy storage systems overcome this challenge. Thanks to the ability our water-based flow batteries to use volume effectively and go vertical, they can provide medium- to long-duration energy storage with up to three times LOWER an installed footprint than a lithium-ion phosphate battery facility of matching capacity. And installed costs will be even lower if existing oil storage tank infrastructure can be adapted to store our electrolytes. ??Our 100 kWh pilot system #batterytechnology #cleanenergy #MDES #LDES

As we shared yesterday, CEO Eugene Beh visited the Port of Long Beach last week to explore opportunities to use existing oil tank infrastructure for organic flow battery deployments. As this recent paper published in Nature Magazine pointed out, the cost of flow battery tank infrastructure is significant and often overlooked. Installation costs can account for nearly half the total cost of a flow battery project and could act as a barrier to widespread adoption, even as battery costs continue to decrease. So why not repurpose existing infrastructure that already has all the civil works in place and is already designed to hold chemicals? In addition to innovating our water-based flow battery systems, Quino Energy is driving innovations in installation and tank infrastructure. We'll be using a recent DOE #AMMTO grant to demonstrate storage of our proprietary flow battery active material in existing, unused oil tanks. Keep an eye on our page for updates on those efforts! #energystorage #flowbattery #infrastructure #LCOS

Last week, Quino Energy CEO Eugene Beh attended the California Ports & Offshore Wind Symposium, hosted by the Port of Long Beach. Ports are an ideal location to showcase for Quino Energy's non-flammable organic flow battery technology. The sheer scale of oil storage infrastructure already in place at ports and shipping terminals provides no lack of sites that can be repurposed to store energy at a fraction the footprint of LFP batteries while saving on installation costs and time -- all without any fire risk. For example, two 75,000 m3 carbon steel oil storage tanks could hold 2-3 GWh of energy storage capacity with Quino Energy's reactants. #flowbatteries #infrastructure #ports?

Cheaper alternatives to lithium ion batteries are emerging to address growing demand in the long-duration storage space, as Matt Blois notes in this article for C&EN. In a recent conversation with Matt, CEO Eugene Beh had a chance to explain how Quino's organic flow batteries are well-suited to meet this demand by using a low-degradation battery electrolyte made from available, affordable materials. Read the full piece to learn more!? #flowbatteries #LDES #degradation

This week CEO Eugene Beh joined Stanford University's STEER Stationary Storage Executive Roundtable. He also had a chance to catch up with an old friend while he was there! ??

Following the recent fire at the Moss Landing facility, local regulators and community members are calling for restrictions on energy storage developments or additional safety requirements to mitigate future safety risks. Safety must always be paramount at any energy storage project but all batteries cannot be treated the same. Water-based, organic batteries - like the ones Quino Energy is developing - are completely non-flammable and manufactured from extremely abundant coal tar or petroleum aromatics, making them inherently different from lithium ion in both costs and risks. Increased awareness and education around these differences is needed to help regulators and policymakers avoid putting up unintended barriers that could delay the development of truly non-flammable batteries such as flow batteries. #energystorage #firesafety #flowbatteries

CEO Eugene Beh joined the most recent episode of Norton Rose Fulbright's Currents Podcast. Listen below for his insights on: ?Where organic water-based flow batteries stack up against established technologies like lithium-ion on cost, materials availability, safety, degradation, and other key factors ?Opportunities to leverage existing economies of scale in flow battery manufacturing to deploy Quino's proprietary battery active material ?The need to increase awareness and education around flow batteries as a viable solution to support the global energy transition #flowbatteries #batterytechnology #energystorage