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UWC launches energy storage laboratory

UWC launches energy storage laboratory

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22nd May 2015

By: Natalie Greve

Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online

  

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The University of the Western Cape (UWC) has launched an energy storage innovation facility, which aims to create an interface between energy storage technology development projects, innovation partners and potential industrial customers in need of advanced energy storage solutions, to cross the so-called “innovation chasm”.

The university says the strength of the Energy Storage Innovation Lab (ESIL) lies in the development, validation and localisation of wide-range energy storage systems for the South African industry and community.

According to ESIL head Professor Bernard Bladergroen, the facility is the culmination of years of research, development and innovation at the UWC’s South African Institute for Advanced Materials Chemistry in the field of lithium-ion (li-ion) and sodium-halide batteries, battery modules and integrated energy storage systems.

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ESIL will support an existing research programme aimed at driving the local production of li-ion batteries at a competetitive cost through the use of local raw materials.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Online Managing Editor

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