About this episode

Steve Feinberg discusses battery recycling and surplus energy equipment management with Sean White.

President of Blue Water Battery Logistics, LLC.They discussed the company's business of handling surplus and recycling batteries, solar panels, and other energy equipment. Steve explained how Blue Water handles various battery types including LFP (lithium iron phosphate) and NMC (lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide), with recycling values ranging from $2 per pound to 10-20 cents per pound depending on the material and volume. They covered the process of battery recycling, including refurbishing used EV batteries and the challenges with consumer electronic batteries ending up in landfills. Steve also discussed the company's expansion plans, hiring 20 additional employees, and their business model of finding reuse or recycling solutions for surplus energy equipment rather than sending it to landfills. Topics Covered Bluewater www.bluewaterbattery.com Pirates Battery Market Battery recycling, Reusing, Refurbishing, Repowering EV = Electric Vehicle Utility-scale storage V2G = Vehicle to Grid Battery management Solar surplus Transformer rehoming Cost reduction Second-life markets Clean energy supply 170’ sailboat! Reach out to Steve Feinberg here: LinkedIn…

People in this episode

Host: Sean White

Guest: Steve Feinberg

Topics covered

• battery recycling
• solar panels
• energy equipment
• EV batteries
• clean energy
• reuse solutions

Keywords

• battery recycling
• solar panels
• EV batteries
• clean energy
• surplus energy equipment
• refurbishing
• reusing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blue Water Battery Logistics, LLC, Blue Water, NABCEP, Heatspring, Solar SEAN, LinkedIn, bluewaterbattery.com, solarSEAN.com, heatspring.com/sean, solarsean.com/esip

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