A workshop with the title "Battery Waste Management and Recycling for Electric Vehicles and Sustainable Renewable Energy", was held at the Ministry of Industry on 11 March to systematically manage expired and damaged batteries when electric vehicles become more widely used.
Our battery recycling service is one of the first professional pick up service in Myanmar that ensures batteries get safely delivered to recycling facilities in Europe. Currently, we accept five types of batteries in durable boxes that can hold 5kg worth of batteries.
On August 7, 2024, the Myanmar Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation promulgated "Notification No.70/2024 Concerning the Management of Waste Batteries and Other Waste of Electric Vehicles." This Notification provides for definition of electric vehicle (EV) battery waste and other EV-related waste, specifying requirements
Second Spark introduces high performance, affordable lithium-ion batteries into Myanmar''s mini-grid market, by prototyping the technology and creating a value-chain for the assembly and manufacture of recycled battery stacks at the village level.
A workshop with the title "Battery Waste Management and Recycling for Electric Vehicles and Sustainable Renewable Energy", was held at the Ministry of Industry on 11 March to systematically manage expired and damaged batteries when electric vehicles become more widely used.
Chair of Work Committee for Setting Policies, Standards and Procedures for Development of EV and Related Industries Deputy Minister for Industry U Yin Maung Nyunt said that the five work committees are cooperating with each other in the relevant sectors, and the research and development work committee is cooperating with relevant departments and organizations in implementing the policies for battery production techniques and management of waste batteries in various electric vehicles.
The deputy minister pledged to cooperate with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation in drafting the policy on Lithium battery waste management system.
Afterwards, the Managing Director of Proven Technology Industry Co Ltd widely discussed the Lithium Battery Waste Management System.
The Deputy Minister for Industry gave the conclusion speech.
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Second Spark - recycled batteries for rural electrification
Creating an electrification value-chain for recycled batteries in reliable, affordable community mini-grids & solar home systems in Myanmar.
Decades of war and economic isolation have left Myanmar with one of the least-developed national grids in Asia. Distributed mini-grids and solar home systems are playing a growing role in electrifying rural areas, however, they remain expensive. In addition, the reliance on lead-acid batteries result in poor performance, high maintenance and short operating lives.
Second Spark introduces reliable, affordable lithium-ion batteries into Myanmar creating a value chain for the sourcing, assembly and manufacture of recycled battery stacks at the village level.
By developing both a product and the value chain for community involvement, Second Spark aims to benefit 17 million people in rural Myanmar by electrifying their homes & businesses and catalysing new community enterprises. In the long-term success in Myanmar is scalable to more than 1.2 billion people globally currently without electricity access.
Distributed energy solutions have been instrumental in electrifying rural Myanmar, however, they suffer from two critical problems that affect performance and slow their roll-out:
1) Affordability: without the subsidies afforded to grid extension, mini-grids and SHSs remain the most expensive electrification solutions in Myanmar, meaning that those last mile communities who need them most are saddled with the highest prices - with stationary storage comprising a significant share of CAPEX.
2) Reliability: Many mini-grids and SHS rely on stationary storage to ensure electricity is available when communities demand it. The vast majority rely on lead-acid battery technology which perform poorly – they have low energy densities, complex maintenance requirements and operating lives of less than 2 years.
In addition, by 2030 there will be more than 1,000 GWh of accumulated storage retired from Electric Vehicles with no proven value streams for second life applications – half of this capacity will be in Myanmar''s northern neighbour China
Second Spark targets rural communities of Myanmar who live more than 6km away from the existing national grid - approximately 17.5million people. These communities are predominately agrarian and are also strongly correlated with poverty and ethnicity.
Myanmar is home to one dominant ethnicity - the Bahma - and 153 ethnic minority groups. The national grid is concentrated in the densely populated lowlands occupied by the Bahma while electrification of ethnic minority groups in the highlands has been slow or non-existent.
Distributed energy solutions are democratic as they centre ownership, management and control of mini-grids in the communities using the systems. For rural Myanmar where self-rule is a political flash point, this is important.
Second spark adopts a community-led approach to the production of recycled stationary storage batteries. Working through local associations we will identify village entrepreneurs who will be trained to develop businesses that service the value chain from recycled batteries it finished units.
Communities will benefit from cheaper, more reliable mini-grids and Solar Home Systems, while local entrepreneurs will trap other economic and employment benefits from Second Spark within poor, ethnic communities of Myanmar''s uplands.
Second Spark introduces high performance, affordable lithium-ion batteries into Myanmar''s mini-grid market, by prototyping the technology and creating a value-chain for the assembly and manufacture of recycled battery stacks at the village level. Second Spark is both a product and business model for community development.
Product: We will use our bespoke Battery Management System (BMS), and our expertise in e-waste recycling to produce, modular, transportable stationary storage battery stacks for household (<10kWh) and village (<100kWh) distributed systems. Initially the battery stacks will rely on ''18650'' format lithium-ion cells recovered from computer waste, in the future larger products derived from EV waste-streams will also be developed .
Assembly business model: We will use our experience in community development to build capacity and establish a local manufacturing value chain that creates economic value for villages at each step of the production process from sourcing and sroting e-waste to the assembly, testing and packaging of recycled battery stacks.
The product will benefit some 17 million people currently without electricity and more than 6km from the national grid.
The business model will also bring additional benefit to enterprise champions in target villages who are supported to establish and run successful businesses that bring employment and prosperity to rural Myanmar.
Second Spark is a partnership between three Australian companies:
AMPERES is a company, focussed on catalysing integrated, sustainable end equitable solutions to the entrenched development problems of the Greater Mekong region. We have more than a dozen years experience working in mainland Southeast Asia, including the development of solar-storage mini-grids for commercial and industrial clients and for village electrification. Together with our parent company Unlimited Energy Australia we have won or been finalists in eight international renewable energy awards since 2012, including winning the 2019 Alliance for Rural Electrification Award for Private Sector Project in a developing country 2018 Intersolar Smarter-E award for pioneering a hybrid li-ion/aqueous ion hybrid mini-grid,; and 2017 Finalist
Switch Batteries started by developing technology for electric racing motorcycles. In 2014 and 2015 our bikes won back-to-back Australia Electric Superbike Championships, utilising our bespoke 700v battery. In 2018, we developed a cloud monitoring battery management system (BMS) and a 48v, modular, swappable battery for stationary storage applications.
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