Belectric lends life to thousands of electric car batteries

Belectric says it has commissioned three large projects in the UK and Germany based on thousands of electric car batteries, both used and new. The batteries from different manufacturers have a total capacity of 40 MWh and are providing frequency response services to grids in Europe.

Belectric is a PV and battery storage specialist and has recently realised three new large scale energy storage facilities based on first and second life automotive battery modules.

The largest projects opened in Wales with a capacity of 22 MW and has been commissioned by Vattenfall using 500 BMW i3 batteries