Eni Storage Systems begins construction on LFP battery plant in Italy

Eni Storage Systems has commenced operation connected a caller manufacturing installation for lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries successful Brindisi, confederate Italy.

The works aims to proviso artillery vigor retention systems (BESS) designed to store and merchandise renewable energy, supporting the grid. This comes arsenic Europe's request for stationary artillery systems is projected to summation from 36GWh successful 2025 to an estimated 138GWh by 2030.

Eni Industrial Transformation main operating serviceman Giuseppe Ricci said: "Today, we are launching successful Brindisi an concern inaugural that marks Eni's introduction into an wholly caller concern with important maturation potential.

"This task is designed to enactment the vigor modulation by creating concern and technological worth successful a assemblage that is important to the decarbonisation process, combining the improvement of renewables with the resilience of the vigor system."

Eni Storage Systems is simply a associated task betwixt Eni Industrial Evolution and FIB (Seri Industrial Group. The project's groundbreaking ceremonial was attended by Italy's Minister of Enterprises and Made successful Italy, Adolfo Urso, on with section officials.

The installation is located connected a conception of the Versalis concern tract that antecedently housed polymer retention and different decommissioned concern activities.

Plans for the Brindisi tract see the operation of a gigafactory for producing artillery cells and modules, successful summation to a BESS assembly plant.

The Brindisi assembly installation is expected to grow capableness and volition besides assemble modules supplied by Seri Industrial's Teverola gigafactory successful Caserta.

A 2nd signifier is acceptable to adhd accumulation of LFP cathode progressive worldly and artillery recycling operations, which volition service some Brindisi and Teverola sites.

Combined yearly accumulation capableness is expected to scope 16GWh by 2030, accounting for implicit 10% of the European marketplace for BESS.

Seri Industrial main enforcement serviceman Vittorio Civitillo said: "When the reply is concern successful an innovative, competitory concern that is cardinal to the planetary vigor transition, we are arrogant to beryllium portion of it.

"When alteration is driven by a beardown concern vision, societal work and the consciousness that we indispensable enactment unneurotic arsenic a country, we are assured that this inaugural volition go an bonzer accidental for maturation for Brindisi and for Italy."

Separately, Eni has disclosed an statement to get a 25% involvement successful Black Giant, a Chilean subsidiary of EnergyX.

Black Giant is processing a lithium extraction task successful bluish Chile adjacent the Salar de Punta Negra. The full phased concern by Eni is $225m.

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