Antony Smithson | CEO
Australian Flow Batteries

CEO and Chartered Accountant with 30+ years’ experience leading capital strategy, fundraising, financial modelling, and governance across capital-intensive, growth-stage, and operationally complex businesses. Extensive experience structuring and executing equity, debt, asset finance, and government-supported funding, and translating commercial contracts into financeable structures.

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Pitch 2: Australian Flow Batteries

Australian Flow Batteries (AFB) is an Australian clean-energy company developing long-duration energy storage solutions based on vanadium redox flow battery (VFB) technology. Headquartered in Western Australia, AFB is building a vertically integrated “pit-to-battery” platform, spanning vanadium processing, electrolyte production and battery deployment. Leveraging proprietary low-energy hydrometallurgical processing, AFB aims to deliver lower-cost, domestically sourced vanadium electrolyte, addressing a key barrier to VFB adoption. With an active project pipeline and participation in large-scale initiatives such as the Kalgoorlie VBESS, AFB is positioned to become a leading provider of safe, long-life energy storage infrastructure in Australia and beyond.

Antony Smithson, CEO, Australian Flow Batteries

last published: 22/Apr/26 09:15 GMT

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