Rome Airport powers up with second-life EV batteries
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This is the largest system in Italy, and among the largest in Europe, of energy storage that uses second-life batteries at Rome Fiumicino airport. The cutting-edge technology stores renewable energy and will contribute to the decarbonization of the airport by allowing the reduction of 16,000 tons of CO2 over ten years.
Italy's largest energy storage system based on used batteries for electric vehicles was inaugurated on Tuesday at Rome's Fiumicino airport to help it reduce carbon emissions.
A capacity of 10 MWh of electricity allows the storage system to balance the 31 GWh supplied by the ADR Solar Farm photovoltaic system. The BESS now installed at Fiumicino Airport is powered by 762 battery modules from Mercedes-Benz, Nissan and Stellantis.
The BESS now installed at Fiumicino Airport is powered by 762 battery modules from Mercedes-Benz, Nissan and Stellantis. The project using electric car batteries dates back to 2022, when a collaboration was launched with Loccioni. Stellantis provided 78 second-life batteries, belonging to the eCMP electric platform dedicated to B-segment cars.
Starting from 2022, a positive and dynamic collaboration was launched with ENEL X and the System Integrator Loccioni, through the procurement of 78 "Second Life" batteries, belonging to the eCMP electric platform dedicated to B-segment cars. Each battery has 50kwh of storage energy, for a total of 3.9MWh.
While electric transport continues to grow, one field remains certain for second-life applications: new batteries that carmakers often have sitting around without ever having seen any use at all because of rapid technological developments or discontinued models.

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