China's Liaoning cultivates new energy-storage industry

Northeast China's Liaoning Province has actively cultivated a new energy-storage industry by leveraging resource advantages to support its efforts in achieving dual-carbon goals and facilitating the green, low-carbon transformation in economic and social development.

In the fields such as clean energy equipment manufacturing and wind, solar, nuclear energy storage where Liaoning has comparative advantages, a number of national-level high-tech enterprises and unicorn enterprises have emerged, playing a supportive role in ensuring energy security and achieving the sustainable development goals of the country.

At Dalian Rongke Power Co., Ltd., the province's first global unicorn company in the port city of Dalian, various intelligent machines are manufacturing and assembling components for the vanadium redox flow battery energy storage system developed by the company.

China's vanadium reserves rank the first globally, accounting for more than 47 percent of the world's total production.

Following over 20 years of research, the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered the energy storage properties of vanadium and developed the core technology for manufacturing vanadium redox flow batteries.

A complete vanadium battery energy storage system can store 3,000 kWh of electricity, enough to power one household for 15 months. And the system is designed to operate in extreme weather conditions, from minus 35 degrees Celsius to plus 50 degrees Celsius.

In the city, the world's first 100-megawatt vanadium redox flow battery energy storage power plant has been established, capable of storing 400,000 kWh of electricity which can meet the daily power needs of 200,000 residents.

At present, the company boasts over 300 domestic and foreign patents in the field of energy storage, allowing it to achieve complete independent control over the entire industrial supply chain.

The company's vanadium redox flow battery projects are deployed all over the world, with a cumulative installed capacity exceeding 720 megawatts. Its sales of electrolyte materials account for 90 percent of the global market, making it the world's only enterprise with the complete technology development and production capacity across the vanadium redox flow battery industrial chain.

China's Liaoning cultivates new energy-storage industry

Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Thursday that the group is willing to consider a ceasefire proposal if it includes guarantees for a truce in the war-torn Gaza Strip.

A member of Lebanese parliament from the Hezbollah coalition made the statement at a news conference in Beirut.

He criticized Israel's strike on a Beirut health care facility that killed at least five people, and warned the international community against Israel's continuous violations of international law.

"The world is facing a challenge. Can they find one humanitarian or international law that Israel hasn't violated? All U.N. charters, U.N. Security Council resolutions, Israel has violated them. Isn't it enough that it tore the U.N. Charter? Isn't it enough that it declared the [U.N.] secretary general an undesirable person, a Persona Non Grata" said Ibrahim Al Moussawi, an Hezbollah official and member of the Lebanese parliament.

The group also vowed to continue their fight until it sees a realistic proposal for a ceasefire.

"The decision for a ceasefire is left to those in the battlefield. We consult with those in the field, and we who deal with politics when we receive an offer that is realistic and would also achieve a ceasefire in Gaza as well. Only then we can consider making a deal," said Ibrahim.

The Israel Defense Forces have been carrying out an unprecedented, intensive air attack on Lebanon, dubbed "Arrows of the North", since Sept. 23, after nearly a year of low-intensity cross-border exchanges of fire with Hezbollah. And in another sign of escalation, the country has launched a ground incursion into Lebanon since early Tuesday.

The Israeli air and ground raids have since killed 1,974 people, including 127 children, wounded 9,350 others, and forced more than 1.2 million civilians to flee their homes, according to the Lebanese health minister.

Hezbollah willing to consider ceasefire proposal if it includes guarantees for truce in Gaza: official