๐ Tender Overview
During next decades, the market-uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) is expected to result in the availability of terawatt-hours of batteries that, after their first 5 years of intense exploitation, no longer meet the high-performance requirements of EV?s. Yet, since still functional and able to serve less-demanding applications, these batteries can live a second life providing stationary energy storage services at lower cost, reducing thereby environmental impacts and GHG emissions of served energy systems, as well as of the battery supply and recycling chain in general. The Project aims to take the ?Leonardo da Vinci? international Airport Rome Fiumicino a significant step towards the net-Zero-climate-goal, by adding to the existing power supply system an energy storage exploiting 2nd life batteries totalling 5 MW power and 10 MWh energy storage capacity. This system shall store excess energy produced during the day by a 30MW solar PV power-plant planned to start operation in 2025, and to return the stored energy by covering the peak-demand of airport facilities during evenings when solar energy becomes unavailable. The Innovations expected from the project shall allow to define how to optimally integrate into a same common power-supply system batteries of different size, voltage, capacity, brands, technologies and at differing ageing levels. Furthermore, the lessons learned by the project shall allow to outline a guidance for applicable business-models, including technical characterization procedures allowing to determine the ageing level of adopted batteries and of ensuing economics, both at the beginning for acceptance testing of 2nd-life batteries, and during the remaining battery lifetime. Expansion of project results to other EV brands shall allow to enlarge applicability to possibly any market-available EV battery make. Once the project will be completed, AdR plans to install additional storage systems up to at least 30 MW power and 90MWh capacity
