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Además, se ha introducido un nuevo equipo de ensamblaje automático para baterías que permite ampliar la oferta de CIDETEC Energy Storage.

CIDETEC Energy Storage and LCOE sign an agreement for battery certification and approval tests.

CIDETEC and LCOE as testing laboratory and approval technical service of the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Innovation (FFII),The electrification of the economy is advancing steadily. This in turn leads to an acceleration in the launch onto the market of new products and applications, including electrical energy storage systems. As a direct result, there is a growing demand from equipment manufacturers for battery certification and approval, both for electric vehicles and for their compliance with the transport requirements given by UN 38.1. This demand arises from a legal requirement prior to the introduction of new products on the market, but also as a way of ensuring the suitability, quality and safety of the batteries that power them.

Until now, the possibilities for battery certification in Spain have been limited, both due to the limited number of laboratories capable of carrying out this task, and to the growing saturation of these laboratories, especially in terms of specialised electrical testing.

Aware of the growing demand, in February 2021, CIDETEC Energy Storage, launched a new Battery Testing Laboratory located in the MUBIL Centre for Electromobility and Energy Storage, with an investment of more than €6M in equipment, to meet the testing needs of both its own research and development projects, as well as direct requests from other companies. In order to offer a comprehensive testing service for battery certification, conformity assessment and approval, with extensive experience and leader at national level, decided to sign a collaboration agreement for the provision of these advanced services, taking advantage of the already successful collaborations and synergies between the two organisations.

Under this agreement, certification and approval tests for electric traction batteries and other uses can be carried out at CIDETEC Energy Storage’s facilities with technicians from LCOE, which, as an accredited approval technical service, will issue the corresponding conformity certificates or the test report for approval as a rechargeable electrical energy storage system (REESS), in accordance with UNECE Regulation 100.03. This activity is complemented by the additional capacities in place at LCOE’s own facilities, making up a comprehensive offer available to both national and international industry.

Two years later, CIDETEC Energy Storage was once again at a face-to-face fair. The Battery Show, the benchmark battery event in Europe, held its fourth edition at Messe Stuttgart from November 30 to December 2, where more than 500 exhibitors and thousands of visitors had the opportunity to gather.

This meeting served to present the main advances of CIDETEC Energy Storage in terms of software for battery modeling and design, advanced cell technologies based on Li – Solid Electrolyte and Li – Sulphur, manufacture of cells in a pilot plant, our extensive capabilities for testing and characterization of batteries as well as our proven experience as developers of Battery Packs systems for commercial applications.

The CIDETEC Energy Storage stand received great attention. The influx of companies of all kinds interested in CIDETEC’s technological offer was constant throughout the event, including manufacturers of materials, initiatives such as battery giga-factories and developers of storage systems and applications.

The occasion served to consolidate relationships with well-known partners and customers, but above all to establish the foundations for new collaborations that will provide high added value throughout the entire value chain with the European battery industry.