Filmus reported that in the definition of the National Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation 2030 (Pncti-2030) as “one of the 10 strategic objectives that we set ourselves is to promote and consolidate a path for energy transition, it is there where our lithium research agendas.”
The projects are carried out with other ministries, Y-TEC (YPF-Conicet), national universities and provincial governments.
Lithium is among the most abundant elements on the planet, so its demand is expected to triple by 2025, from its use in the manufacture of batteries for mobile phones, electronic devices and electric vehicles, as well as for the storage of renewable energy.
Argentina, together with Bolivia and Chile, make up the lithium triangle, considered the largest reserve in the world, with about 65% of the world’s resources of that mineral. Likewise, Argentina owns 20% of the world’s lithium deposits, which are located in the provinces of Salta, Catamarca and Jujuy, to which Formosa has now been added.
In October of last year, within the framework of the Lithium Roundtable, the treaty for the creation of the Lithium Mining Region made up of Catamarca, Salta and Jujuy was signed. In addition to the ventures that exist in the country, in Argentina there are around 50 private lithium projects in different phases of the exploration stage.
Argentina and Chile recently created the Binational Working Group on Lithium and Salars, which has already held two meetings in both countries and in which a roadmap was defined with concrete actions to be carried out in the areas of value addition and aspects environmental.
For their part, Argentina and Bolivia celebrated in July of this year a framework agreement for the promotion, planning, coordination and execution of scientific-technological cooperation activities.
In this sense, the Mincyt, together with other ministries and agencies, are working on the execution of the project and the start-up of the National Plant for the Technological Development of Lithium Cells and Batteries (Unilib), “whose start-up is imminent,” they reported. .
The Unilib, is located in the Center for Innovation and Technology Transfer of the University of La Plata, has an area of 1,650 meters and the plant will have an annual production capacity -measured in stored energy- of 13 megawatts, equivalent to 1,000 batteries for stationary storage of renewable energies or about 50 for electric collectives.
Source: Ambito
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