- The project will analyze the performance of 130kWh of recycled electric vehicle batteries at an experimental photovoltaic park in Tudela.
ACCIONA has connected Spain’s first renewable storage plant using recycled batteries to the grid, at the company’s experimental photovoltaic park in Tudela (Navarre). The set of four second-life batteries, with a combined capacity of 130kWh, will store the energy obtained from the 1.2MWp plant to later inject it into the grid and analyse its performance and behaviour. The innovation project concludes with a comparative analysis to verify the equal performance of recycled batteries against first use batteries.
The plant includes 32kW/32kWh batteries from Nissan vehicles, which will double their useful life as part of the project. ACCIONA will operate the system from its Renewable Energy Control Center (CECOER) with its global energy management platform GEMS, which enables optimized management, real-time monitoring and analysis of parameters. Renewable energy will be certified throughout the process through ACCIONA’s blockchain-based Greenchain® platform.
The storage plant is part of the experimental facilities of Montes del Cierzo in Tudela and is the result of a joint project with startup BeePlanet within ACCIONA’s open innovation program, I’mnovation. BeePlanet, together with ACCIONA, is part of the GERA project, backed by the Government of Navarre, and specializes in energy storage systems reusing lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles.
Author: Bryan Groenendaal
