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Redwood Materials has recycled e-bike batteries and Tesla batteries. Now it’s ready to go up a few sizes. The electric vehicle battery recycling and manufacturing company founded by Tesla’s former chief technologist announced today that it will help decommission and recycle a 4 MWh stationary substation in Kauai, Hawaii, as part of a massive solar array. The decommissioning was recently completed and the batteries are now being transported to the company’s location in northern Nevada for recycling. It will be one of Redwood’s first battery energy storage systems and an important step in the company’s broader efforts to prove that lithium-ion batteries and energy storage products of all sizes can have new lifespans beyond their current ones.It’s ready to step up a few sizes For JB Straubel, former CTO of Tesla and founder of Redwood, it is a project that has come full circle. Straubel was involved in the initial installation by Tesla in 2015. The Kauai project consists of a 52 megawatt-hour battery facility and a 13 MW SolarCity solar farm. Tesla and the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC), the energy company that commissioned the project, initially said the project would reduce fossil fuel consumption by 1.6 million gallons per year. “When it comes to renewable energy deployment, Hawaii has always been a leader, launching some of the earliest and largest solar and storage projects in the world,” Straubel said in a statement. “Our partnership with KIUC to decommission and recycle the first generation storage project at the Anahola Substation demonstrates their true commitment to sustainability.” Of course, the batteries being discarded and recycled are not Tesla batteries; These batteries are located in a separate KIUC installation. “This is still running and will be for many years to come!” said the company. The storage system that Redwood will recycle is KIUC’s Anahola substation, a 4 MWh battery storage system rated at 6 MW, made from lithium-nickel-cobalt-alumina chemicals. The system consists of eight battery containers for a total of 2,320 modules weighing 44,544 kg (98,202 pounds or 49 tons). Redwood sees big business in decommissioning and recycling stationary storage, pointing out that 4.8 GW was installed in the US alone last year. The company recently partnered with Southern Company and EPRI to recycle one of the first grid-scale lithium-ion battery storage systems in Cedartown, Georgia. “As we think about the long-term circular economy of batteries, the decommissioning and recycling of stationary storage is an integral part of our business,” the company said. Redwood Materials was founded by Straubel in 2017. In addition to dismantling scrap from Tesla’s battery manufacturing process with Panasonic, Redwood also recycles electric vehicle batteries from Ford, Toyota, NissanSpecialized, Amazon, Lyft, Rad Power Bikes and others. The company also produces anodes and cathodes, key battery components, at a plant in South Carolina. Many of the batteries in these first-generation electric vehicles, such as the Nissan Leaf, have just reached the end of their life and need to be recycled. After receiving the batteries from its various partners, Redwood begins a chemical recycling process that removes and refines relevant elements such as nickel, cobalt and copper. A certain percentage of this refined material can then be reintegrated into the battery manufacturing process – 95 percent of the most important battery metals on average, according to Redwood.

Redwood Materials has recycled e-bike batteries and Tesla batteries. Now it’s ready to go up a few sizes. The electric vehicle battery recycling and manufacturing company founded by Tesla’s former chief technologist announced today that it will help decommission and recycle a 4 MWh stationary substation in Kauai, Hawaii, as part of a massive solar array. The decommissioning was recently completed and the batteries are now being transported to the company’s location in northern Nevada for recycling. It will be one of Redwood’s first battery energy storage systems and an important step in the...

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