Gumi City Opens Battery-as-a-Service Test Center to Boost Secondary Battery Industry

Gumi City Launches Battery Demonstration Center to Expand Advanced Industries

Following semiconductor and robot complexes, Gumi strengthens secondary battery sector with new infrastructure

A demonstration center for comprehensively managing batteries, secondary batteries, will be established in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province.

On October 28, the groundbreaking ceremony for the BaaS, Battery as a Service, test demonstration center was held at the First Industrial Complex of the Gumi National Industrial Complex, hosted by the Korea Testing & Research Institute (KTR). Approximately 300 attendees, including Gumi Mayor Kim Jang-ho, Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan, Gyeongbuk Vice Governor for Economy Yang Geum-hee, and KTR President Lee Seung-ryeol, participated.

BaaS is a business model that provides various services related to batteries, including repair, rental, charging, and reuse. The BaaS test demonstration center, built on a 24,576-square-meter site within the First Industrial Complex, spans a total floor area of 4,231 square meters and consists of six buildings. The total project cost amounted to 27.2 billion Korean won.

The center evaluates the performance and safety of used batteries and supports their reuse in energy storage systems, ESS. KTR plans to provide full-cycle services for secondary batteries—from manufacturing to reuse—by integrating the center with its existing testing and certification systems.

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