Energy Local Storage Advanced system (ELSA), an EU project and Renault have formed a partnership to develop stationery energy battery storage system from second life electric vehicle batteries provided by Renault and Nissan.
The EU project “Energy Local Storage Advanced system” (ELSA) held its midterm conference on the 27th of October 2016 at La Maison des Travaux Publics in Paris.
At the conference, the ELSA consortium presented first insights of trialling its stationary energy battery storage system based on second life electric vehicle batteries provided by Renault and Nissan.
The two main objectives s of the EU-Project ELSA are: to enable an increasing local production of renewable energy and to accelerate the Smart Grid transition.
Launched in 2015, the three-year ELSA project is realised by an interdisciplinary consortium of 10 members from five EU countries.
ELSA project from Bouygues Energy & Services coordinator Eric Portales said: “With ELSA, we bring distributed storage solutions to maturity.”
The ELSA energy storage system is based on second life batteries from the electric vehicle lines at Renault Kangoo Z.E. and Nissan Leaf. An ELSA system is built from several batteries without previous dismantling of the individual battery packs.
That way, ELSA does not only give additional life to electric vehicle batteries before they are recycled, but also creates stationary storage solutions that comply with the high safety standards required for electric vehicle batteries in a cost-effective manner.
ELSA proposes energy storage solutions for factories, large office and residential buildings and districts. ELSA develops innovative Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to operate a storage system that incorporates batteries of differing source, capacity and quality.
At the ELSA midterm conference titled, “The ELSA battery storage system – safe, scalable and green,” the consortium presented first insights of trialling the ELSA system at six pilot sites across Europe.
Michael Lippert, Vice-President of the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE), opened the event.
