CIC energiGUNE has received the final resolution for the start-up of the CICe2024 project, within the framework of the ELKARTEK programme for Collaborative Research Projects in Strategic Areas, promoted by the Basque Government. With the code KK-2024/00062, the project aims to deepen the knowledge necessary for the design and development of new sustainable electrolytes, focused on energy storage technologies beyond lithium-ion.

The project consortium led by CIC energiGUNE is made up of BCAM (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics), Ikerlan, Tecnalia, Mondragon Unibertsitatea and the UPV/EHU, thus consolidating a strategic collaboration between leading Basque research centres and universities.

The project will address both the synthesis and characterisation of new materials for electrolytes and the study of their interaction with electrodes, a key aspect for understanding the formation of the electrolyte-electrode interface and its influence on the performance and useful life of batteries. To this end, the development of digital twins will be integrated, an innovative tool to anticipate cell behaviour under real operating conditions.

This initiative will contribute directly to the objectives of electrification of the economy and energy transition, and will strengthen the competitiveness of the Basque Country´s technological and industrial ecosystem in the field of advanced energy storage.

With CICe2024, CIC energiGUNE reaffirms its commitment to collaborative research and the generation of knowledge that will accelerate the arrival of new storage technologies on the market, in line with the global challenges of sustainability.