L R AS Published on Monday 8 July 2019 - n° 284 - Categories:Germany, lithium batteries
Germany wants to set up a battery industry
The German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) is considering applying to the European Commission for authorisation to provide state aid for the industrial manufacture of mobile and stationary batteries. The aim is to organise a sector
starting from the extraction of raw materials, to elaborate electrode materials and then to integrate them into the battery cells.
Europe lacks the lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite that are used in lithium-ion battery cells.
In Germany, consortia of investment and research projects are subject to an examination procedure under national financing legislation. At the same time, the projects must be notified to the European Commission in accordance with state aid legislation. The aim is to complete the national approval procedure and the European notification if possible by the end of the year.
SolarServer of 5 July
NDLR Having noted that the speeches between Franco-German ministers were not advancing the project of a European battery industry, the pragmatic Germans wanted to launch such an activity on their own. They were to be congratulated and acknowledged that they were right. It was time to implement such an activity. The industry is not the domain of speeches. Relying on their own forces, the Germans will succeed.
