Featured in The Long Game – 02-2023

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The pace of electric vehicle and renewable energy deployment is picking up. In this transition, granting a second life to electric vehicle (EV) batteries will be a breakthrough point, writes Rita Tedesco, from the Environmental Coalition on Standards.

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pv magazine

08 Feb 2023

In 2021, German companies Fenecon and The Mobility House partnered to install 20 MW of energy storage systems using Renault Zoe spare-part EV batteries. The batteries provide frequency containment reserve services to the German power grid. | Photo: Fenecon

The energy sector is undergoing rapid transformation. Public authorities are deploying electric buses and the rooftops of many households host solar panels. The transition to electromobility and renewable production of electricity is on the move. This evolution is necessary to decarbonize our economy, but we should not forget it will also increase battery production.Batteries come …

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