Wednesday, March 27

ENE Academy offers training in a strategic sector for Europe in Cáceres


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In parallel, the ENE Academy has begun to function, an ENE project developed thanks to the agreement signed by Extremadura New Energies with Innoenergy, an entity designated by the European Commission to manage and lead the ‘EBA250’ (the industrial development program of the European Battery Alliance).

The presentation was attended by the CEO of ENE, Ramón Jiménez; Antonio Hidalgo García, rector of the University of Extremadura; Luis Arasanz. Director of Education and Responsible for Sustainability Projects at EIT Innoenergy; and Manuel Gómez Parejo, general director of Vocational Training and Training for Employment of the Junta de Extremadura.

Ramón Jiménez has made it clear that it is “one of the most exciting projects” of the company, which has a clear objective: “That the people of Extremadura in general and the people of Cáceres in particular have the opportunity to access the job that is going to be created in the lithium processing plant that we are going to start up in this city». We are talking, he recalled, of 450 qualified jobs over 25 years.

For this reason, he added, it is not just about training, but rather it links “the fight against depopulation, equal opportunities and making available to young people the tools that allow them to decide their future.” Thus, this training will enable them to work not only in Cáceres, but also in the numerous projects that are being promoted in this sector in Europe. “We are a company from Cáceres and we are leaving our soul so that this city has the future it deserves, and so that our young people are increasingly masters of their future”, Ramón Jiménez concluded.

In this scenario, a project like the Extremadura New Energies project in Cáceres gains prominence.

State of the Union debate

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“Lithium and rare earths are already replacing gas and oil at the heart of our economy. By 2030, our demand for these rare earth metals will increase fivefold.” This is how forceful the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was shown a few days ago in the State of the Union Debate.

Von der Leyen pointed out in his speech the current European weakness not only in what refers to the extraction of lithium and rare earths, but also in its transformation. According to the data he offered, at the moment “almost 90% of rare earths and 60% of lithium are processed in China.” For this reason, the European Union considers a sector “strategic” in which there is still a long way to go in Europe, and for this reason Von der Leyen advanced that “strategic projects will be identified throughout the entire supply chain, from extraction to refining, from processing to recycling”, while promoting “a European Critical Raw Materials Law”.

In this scenario, a project such as the Extremadura New Energies project in Cáceres gains prominence, with a unique lithium processing plant in Europe that will incorporate the latest technologies in the sector and that will meet the highest standards of environmental sustainability.


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