Energy storage company Seri Industrial has entered into a non-binding agreement with energy company Eni for the potential development of a lithium-iron phosphate battery industrial chain. This would apply to energy storage systems (ESS) as well as industrial and commercial electric mobility.
The Italian companies will explore the creation of a joint venture to build, at Eni’s Brindisi site in southern Italy, a stationary energy storage production plant, production lines for active material and battery recycling. It would support a similar plant being built by FIB, a Seri Industrial subsidiary, in the province of Caserta.
Seri subsidiary Faam is constructing an 8GWh battery production facility for prismatic LFP cells and batteries dedicated to ESS, industrial mobility, e-buses, and specialised applications. It would also recycle 50 tons/day of end-of-life batteries.
A 0.35GWh pilot line, Teverola 1, is already in production. It works with LFP soft pouch (50Ah) high energy density applications with integrated BMS.
Seri’s Marco Civitillo said: “This new facility could potentially integrate LFP cathode material production, leveraging ENI’s expertise in the chemical sector, along with the recycling of end-of-life batteries.”
The overall plan, according to Civitillo, is to set up a new company that would oversee sourcing, sales and R&D for both gigafactories: Teverola 2, currently under Faam’s construction, and the proposed Brindisi site.
