Hydrovolt has completed the clean-up of the battery storage site in Spydeberg

Hydrovolt has completed the clean-up of the battery storage site in Spydeberg well ahead of the estimated six-week timeframe. In close cooperation with Indre Østfold Brann og Redning (IØBR), Scanfreight, EOBD and TE Transport, the decommissioning of the storage facility was carried out in a safe and responsible manner, without any unwanted HSE incidents.

Read the previous article about the initiation of the clean-up work her.

Since May 13, Hydrovolt has been working on clearing the battery storage site in Spydeberg. The work has been carried out in accordance with the company’s procedures for handling EV batteries and without any safety incidents.

Most of the batteries were classified as stable and prepared for further transport following a safety assessment of each individual battery. Batteries with deviations were treated on site by removing the stored energy, thereby discharging them to a safe condition prior to further transport. This has been an important measure to reduce risk during transport and subsequent handling of the batteries.

“We are very pleased to have decommissioned the battery storage site in an efficient, safe, and responsible manner without any HSE incidents. I am proud and impressed by our employees, who resolved this within the timeframe. With valuable support from IØBR, EOBD, Scanfreight, and TE Transport, we have handled this in the best possible way,” says Ole-Christen Enger, CEO of Hydrovolt.

Underveis i opprydningsarbeidet har det vært gjennomført flere beredskapsøvelser, og samarbeidet med IØBR har vært tett og godt. Hydrovolt har i tillegg hatt god dialog og rapportert ukentlig på fremdrift til Indre Østfold kommune.

- Vi har hatt et godt samarbeid med Hydrovolt under opprydningsarbeidet med et høyt fokus på sikkerhet og beredskap. Vi gratulerer med en effektiv og trygg håndtering av batterilageret, sier Petter Manger, brannsjef ved IØBR.

Videre takker IØBR alle involverte for godt samarbeid i håndteringen av batterilageret i Spydeberg. Batteriene er nå fjernet, og oppdraget er avsluttet uten uønskede hendelser. IØBR går tilbake til normal beredskap, men tar med seg viktig læring fra arbeidet som vil styrke deres fremtidige innsats.

The batteries stored in Spydeberg have been transported to Hydrovolt’s recycling plant in Fredrikstad. Upon arrival, the batteries will be discharged and dismantled, and the battery modules will then be sent to the company’s crushing and sorting facility. More about the company’s recycling process can be found her.

Using Hydrovolt’s crushing and sorting facility, the raw materials in the batteries will be recovered, making it possible to reintroduce these materials into a circular value chain. The batteries from Spydeberg will become new resources, rather than waste batteries posing a risk to the environment and others.