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Tauron PE SATauron concludes agreement with Poland's environmental fund for nearly PLN 10 mln subsidy
Listed power group Tauron has concluded an agreement for a nearly PLN 10 million (EUR 2.3 mln) subsidy with Poland's National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management NFOSiGW for the RES2LIFE project, Tauron said in a press release. The budget for the entire project is more than PLN 12 million (EUR 2.8 mln).
As indicated, the co-financing is in the form of a preferential loan with the possibility of obtaining an innovation bonus of approximately PLN 2 million (EUR 466,000) for the implementation of the full material part of the project, as well as partial loan amortisation (another PLN 2 million) for the implementation of similar environmental projects in the future.
The investment by Tauron Inwestycje will be located in Jaworzno and will complement the existing 5 MW photovoltaic farm with an additional 200 kW, a "2nd life" energy storage facility (power of 1 MW and usable capacity of 3 MWh) and two fast charging stations for electric vehicles (min. 150 kW each).
"As part of the +Recycling, Electromobility, Energy Storage - the second life of electric vehicle batteries+ (RES2LIFE) project, Tauron will implement an innovative energy storage technology based on partially depleted electric vehicle batteries. The installation will be combined with a PV farm and two fast charging stations for electric vehicles," it wrote.
It was reported that the technology, developed on the back of the Second LIFE ESS project, allows the life of batteries from electromobility to be prolonged, whose capacity has fallen to around 80 percent and which lose the parameters to continue to work effectively in electromobility, but are still used for other purposes in the economy.
"Reusing batteries extends their lifetime by an additional minimum of 10 years, positively translates into the strengthening of a closed loop economy, the management of hazardous waste and contributes to the reduction of GHG emissions from the production of new batteries for energy storage," they wrote.
"The RES2LIFE project's proposed integration of energy storage with chargers and a PV farm will allow rapid charging of electric vehicles with locally generated green energy," it added.
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