According to Electrive, Paul van Vuuren, CEO of VDL Bus & Coach, stated that "in project Anubis, we are initially using batteries taken from 43 electric VDL buses operated by Transdev in Eindhoven since 2016."

"These vehicles are currently getting new and larger battery packs, but the used batteries still have enough capacity to be used in stationary applications", he added.

The battery system that lies in Moerdijk, the Netherlands, is composed of multiple battery packs from e-buses and it has a total capacity of 7.5 megawatts.

The companies have similar projects undergoing currently in Germany, the US and the UK and they hope that in the next few years they will be able to reach 3 GW of installed battery capacity.

RWE uses a smaller battery pack composed of used Audi batteries in Germany and the company is now looking at how it can scale this kind of project with larger e-bus battery packs.

Roger Miesen, CEO of RWE Generation, said that the company "demonstrating that technical challenges related to the construction and operation of plants like this can be overcome."

Without going into detail, he also briefly mentioned "high-quality recycling" for the battery cells once they reach the end of their operational life as secondary power solutions.

If all cars, buses and trucks in the Netherlands will be battery-powered from 2030 onwards, project Anubis can expect to have around 150.000 tons of batteries to work with, which it can implement in smaller or larger scale energy storage systems or recycle.