The project, backed by China Huaneng Group, features a 200 MW/1 GWh VRFB system paired with a 1 GW solar farm. With a total investment of CNY 3. 8 billion ($520 million), the project spans 1,870 hectares in the county of Jimusar, Xinjiang. On August 31, a significant signing ceremony took place at the Shenyang High-Tech Zone Management Committee and Kangping County, marking the launch of major energy projects. The event included the signing of the GWh Vanadium Flow Battery High-End Equipment Manufacturing Project by Green V Energy, a. The GWh-scale long-duration energy storage project is expected to reduce curtailment in Xinjiang, a region of China with high solar and wind generation, and transmission bottlenecks. The flow battery installation is co-located with a PV plant. From ESS News The world's first gigawatt-hour scale. On April 24, Zhu Chengjun, general manager of Huawei Digital Energy Microgrid Business, and his delegation, accompanied by Feng Tao, vice president of technical services, China, of Ivanhoe, and Wang Song, general manager of investment and corporate development, China, of Ivanhoe, visited the. China has launched the world's first gigawatt-hour scale vanadium flow battery energy storage project, marking a major milestone in long-duration grid-scale storage.