The vanadium redox flowbattery, which will offer 60MWh of storage capacity, will be installed byaround the end of next year at a substation run by Hokkaido Electric Power, theregional utility said in a press statement. 

Once the battery isinstalled at the Minami-Hayakita substation in the town of Abira, near the portof Tomakomai, Hokkaido Electric will test the system for a period of threeyears. 

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