One-liner: the Instituto Tecnológico de la Energía (Paterna) — Spain's only ENAC-accredited battery-performance lab, running the full Li-battery value chain (manufacture → ecodesign → recycling) plus 26 specialised labs and 5 pilot plants covering the whole energy-transition stack.
What a founder gets
- ENAC-accredited battery-performance testing — the only lab of its kind in Spain (cycling, safety, ageing, characterisation) — plus a diagnosis & reconditioning bench for second-life batteries.
- 5 pilot plants: Smart Mobility Lab, Hydrogen pilot plant, Circular-carbon pilot plant, GAMMA pilot plant, and the Battery Lab itself — real-world scale-up infrastructure, not just testing.
- 26 specialised labs, including EV-charging management, modelling/simulation, H₂ fuel cells, materials characterisation and synthesis, and high-energy testing.
- Training: official master's degrees plus short specialised courses (battery systems for grids, energy communities, environmental-management-system audits) — a founder-team upskilling route, not just R&D access.
- A live public-funding tracker on its own site (
ite.es/ayudas) that curates open energy/industry grants — effectively free grant-scouting for member companies. - Full engagement-route detail: see the companion program page ITE Battery Lab.
Who it's for
- Energy-storage, battery, EV/mobility, power-electronics, hydrogen and cleantech startups — from prototype/validation testing through growth-stage certification and scale-up.
How to engage
- Asóciate a ITE (ite.es) — become an ITE associate for preferential access and rates.
- Direct service/lab contract — scope a test, simulation, or pilot-plant run; pay per service.
- ITE Connect Day — the institute's flagship annual networking event (most recent edition, June 2026, focused on energy independence and industrial competitiveness) — a direct route to meet ITE's ecosystem.
- See ITE Battery Lab for the full "how to engage" routes including subcontracting inside an IVACE grant.
Key facts
- Founded: ~30 years of operation cited on-site (i.e. founded early 1990s) —
#status/verifyexact year. - HQ: Parque Tecnológico de Valencia, Avenida Juan de la Cierva 24, 46980 Paterna, Valencia; +34 96 136 66 70; ite@ite.es.
- 7 strategic R&D lines: redes del futuro (future grids), eficiencia energética y procesos industriales, movilidad sostenible, baterías, H2 renovable, reciclaje y economía circular, biotecnología.
- REDIT member — part of the same 11-institute network as ITC/ITENE/ITI; REDIT-wide reach was 14,800+ companies in 2025.
- Recent projects: DIENERTEX, CERVERA R5DES (grid flexibility consortium with CIDETEC/IKERLAN/ITG/TEKNIKER), RUN2FUTURE, NAVH2IATECH; success cases HYSGRID+, ALMAGRID, WAY2HYDROGEN.
- Funding lines it curates/helps access (2026): STRATG 2026 (reindustrialisation), IVACE Eficiencia Energética 2026 (window 26 Jun–29 Oct 2026), INNOGLOBAL 2026 (CDTI international cooperation), Programa INNOVAE (energy-efficiency singular projects), Digitalización Industrial MIDCAP CV 2026 (€1.5M), Programa COINCIDENTE (defense-application R&D, up to 70% cofinancing), EU Battery Booster strategy, LICA/LIC-DANA lines.
Relations
- Part of: REDIT
- See also: Cleantech (niche)
- See also: Testbeds (support)
- Runs: ITE Battery Lab
- See also: IVACE Eficiencia Energetica