Bat­tery tech­nol­o­gy devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment as an enabler for just tran­si­tion (BATTCHEM)

The project devel­ops a bat­tery research and devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment to sup­port the tran­si­tion to a renew­able and sus­tain­able ener­gy sys­tem based on the strengths of the region. Fluc­tu­a­tions in wind and solar pow­er pro­duc­tion chal­lenge the sta­bil­i­ty of the ener­gy net­work, so bat­tery tech­nol­o­gy plays a key role in lev­el­ling them and enabling elec­tri­fi­ca­tion. North­ern Fin­land has raw mate­ri­als for bat­ter­ies, chem­i­cal research and elec­tron­ics man­u­fac­tur­ing exper­tise, which cre­ates a strong foun­da­tion for the devel­op­ment of new exper­tise and indus­try. Fin­land lacks a dry space research envi­ron­ment for the devel­op­ment of bat­tery tech­nol­o­gy, although it is nec­es­sary to ensure the oper­a­tion of mate­ri­als and increase indus­tri­al usabil­i­ty.

As a result of the project, a mod­ern and nation­al­ly unique research and devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment for bat­tery tech­nol­o­gy will be cre­at­ed in Oulu, which will be able to pilot the var­i­ous process­es of bat­tery cell man­u­fac­tur­ing from the syn­the­sis of bat­tery chem­istry to the man­u­fac­ture of an entire cell.

The project is co-fund­ed by the Euro­pean Union.