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At Solar & Storage Live Paris, the leading event for solar energy and storage, Mecaware - a producer of recycled strategic metals from waste batteries - and Terapolis - a producer of renewable energies - formalized an innovative partnership designed to integrate battery recyclability into the design of local energy projects.
Terapolis embodies a new generation of companies committed to rethinking the way we produce electricity. Driven by a bold vision, the company designs and deploys high-performance renewable energy solutions tailored to local needs, notably through agrivoltaics.
Driven by the desire to integrate concrete sustainability solutions - promoting the second life of batteries and the valorization of their environmental and industrial potential - Terapolis was looking for a partner capable of supporting its ambitions for recyclability and circularity.
For its part, cleantech Mecaware has developed an innovative recycling technology capable of extracting and recovering the strategic metals contained in end-of-life batteries or production scrap. Thanks to a closed-circuit, acid- and sulfate-free process, Mecaware guarantees a clean, circular and eco-efficient solution, reconciling industrial performance with respect for the environment.
Its model is based on the deployment of compact, modular units, located as close as possible to waste sources, thus reducing initial investment and optimizing logistics.
"Terapolis is looking to partner with leading players across the entire value chain for its photovoltaic power plants. The partnership with Mecaware is part of this approach, and should enable us to design increasingly integrated and sustainable projects. Thinking about park dismantling and battery recycling right from the design phase is a pledge of our commitment to future generations," explains Jean-Baptiste Casedevant, Director of Operations at Terapolis.
"By partnering with Mecaware, Terapolis is integrating a key technological link to guarantee the sustainability and circularity of its energy projects, laying the foundations for a new responsible industrial ecosystem," adds Benoît Samanos, COO of Mecaware.
At a time when the need for energy storage continues to grow, and Europe remains dependent on imports of strategic metals, industrial and energy sovereignty is becoming a major issue for the continent.
Terapolis and Mecaware share the same ambition: to build a sustainable, circular and self-sufficient European energy sector.
To date, stationary storage is subject to European requirements for battery recyclability, with a view to protecting the environment and securing supplies of critical materials.
Strategic metals that can be regenerated and reused to produce new batteries through recycling include lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, iron and graphite.
By integrating the end-of-life aspects of its systems right from the design stage, Terapolis has made the forward-thinking choice of initiating a dynamic in favor of the recyclability of stationary storage, thus positioning itself as a driving force in the European battery recycling industry.
Mecaware 's unique expertise enables these metals to be reinjected into the European industrial chain, helping to secure local supplies, reduce dependence on imports and support the continent's energy transition.
"This partnership enables us to transform an environmental challenge into an industrial opportunity. Each of our projects bears witness to the fact that innovation and responsibility can go hand in hand to build an energy sector where resources are regenerated. Mecaware and Terapolis show the way. Benoît Samanos, COO Mecaware
By pooling their expertise, Terapolis and Mecaware aim to cover the entire energy storage value chain, from project design to the recovery of strategic metals from end-of-life batteries.
This partnership embodies a concrete approach to circularity and lays the foundations for a sovereign and sustainable industrial ecosystem serving Europe's energy transition.
Also read in La Tribune: Rare metals: Mecaware and Terapolis work on the end-of-life of stationary batteries
Read the Press Release : CP Mecaware x Terapolis
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