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VASCO DA GAMA CoLAB
Energy Storage

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Welcome

Vasco da Gama CoLAB is a collaborative laboratory, supported by the Portuguese Agencies for Science and Technology (FCT) and Innovation (ANI). VG CoLAB was established in 2019 in Porto as a non-profit private association, and the associates include public and private partners from academia and industry.


VG CoLAB develops innovative system-oriented technological solutions applying energy storage to enable the energy transition. Fuelled by industrial and services sectors, it delivers mid-TRL prototypes and business support services scaling up relevant and novel scientific research findings.

​It is positioned in the centre of the electrochemical energy storage value chain, developing innovation activities, such as prototypes, proto-products of Hybrid Energy Storage Systems, and other high-valued services to associates and partners. VG CoLAB works with Sodium-ion batteries (SIB) – being responsible for the first sodium-ion cell in Portugal, and currently creating a pilot production line to test sodium-ion batteries –, redox flow batteries, supercapacitors, battery pack and module assembly, agnostic BMS, modular configurable converters, and BESS sizing tools.

VG CoLAB in the battery value chain
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Raw materials extraction

Active materials selection

Cell

manufacturing

Battery packs & Systems design

Application & Integration

Second life

utilisation

Material

recycling

Cell scale-up

  • Sodium-ion batteries

  • Supercapactitors

  • Redox Flow Batteries

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Modules and Packs

  • Design & development of modules and packs

  • Battery Management Systems (BMS)

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Power electronics & Grid Interface

  • Modular configurable converters

  • Distributed & decentralised control in microgrids

  • BESS sizing tools

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Last updates

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Working With the Best Associates

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Members
of the Best Organisations

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Contact us:

Headquarters: Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n,
4200-465 Porto, Portugal

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Offices and electrochemistry lab: PORTIC, Rua Arquitecto Lobão Vital, n.º 172, 4200-374 Porto, Portugal

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Power electronics lab: UPTEC Asprela I, Rua Alfredo Allen n.º 455-461, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal

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info@vgcolab.com

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Co-funded by

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