The director of the technology company Y-Tec, Roberto Salvarezza, announced that the national plant for lithium cells and batteries (UniLiB) will start operating.
The director of the technology company Y-Tec and former Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Nation Roberto Salvarezza announced that in August the national plant for lithium cells and batteries (UniLiB) will start operating, intended for public sector and strategic projects. Its installed capacity would reach 15 MWh/year in one year.
“Between August and September we will start up the national plant for lithium cells and batteries (UniLiB), where Lithium-ion batteries for the public sector will be manufacturedamong them: the equipment at the armed forces and power supply for rural populations”Salvarezza maintained during a panel held at the Faculty of Engineering of the UBA.
Likewise, he anticipated that the plant located on the property of the Technological Productive Pole “Jorge Alberto Sábato” in La Plata, will have an annual production capacity -measured in stored energy- of 15 MWh, equivalent to thousand batteries for stationary storage of renewable energy or about 50 for electric buses.
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Salvarezza specified that These batteries will be used for “specific demands” as communication equipment for the armed forces, electromobility or stationary energy complementing renewable energies such as wind or solar to supply smaller cities that have no energy. In this regard, he revealed that together with the province of Buenos Aires a pilot project is carried out to supply a town near Berisso (Paulino Island) that is disconnected from electricity, therefore, “with lithium batteries and solar panels, a package of solutions will be produced that will supply approximately 150 houses”.
“We have tested our batteries coupled with the solar park and it will be quite an experience from the social point of view because it implies thinking about how these parks are going to be managed and how a fee is going to be charged when you do not consume electricity from the network; However, despite there are sectors such as electric motorcycle manufacturers such as City Car who are asking us for batteries to guarantee the availability of batteries”, he added.
Finally, regarding electromobility, the Undersecretary for Strategic Affairs (SAE), Verónica Robert, affirmed that Argentina has the capacity to equip electric vehicles and, therefore, it is in a preferential place. “We are capable of making something from these electric vehicles and that puts us in a preferential place; for example, lithium batteries, which can be made in Argentina and which constitute 30% of the value of the vehicleIn this context, the technology sector is essential to industrialize lithium,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
