The largest barriers to repurposing used EV batteries are the cost of disassembly, long test times, and uncertainty of the remaining useful life. Extending the life of used EV batteries further lessens the need for mining of rare earth minerals, thereby making batteries as an energy storage solution more sustainable. This presents opportunities for repurposing EV batteries as low-cost stationary storage in a second-life application. Additional grant information is available here.Īs electric vehicles (EV) reach their end-of-life, batteries often retain from 70-90% of their original capacity. The underlying goal is to deploy second life batteries from electric vehicles for use in a microgrid application. The California Energy Commission Grant proposal was for Validating Capability of Second-life Batteries to Cost-Effectively Integrate Solar Power for Small-Medium Commercial Building Applications. CleanSpark has also agreed to provide over $88,000 in matched funding.
CLEANSPARK BATTERY BACKUP SOFTWARE
CleanSpark expects to receive approximately $470,000 of the grant funding for its microgrid design and mVSO software services and follow-on deployment of its mPulse software and controls. ReJoule and CleanSpark will be further supported by Ford Motor Company, BigBattery, and GRID Alternatives. The funds will be distributed to the multi-group partnership of clean energy and technology companies.
The grant is approximately $2.9 million and is slated to be deployed over the next 30 months.
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