Passive dissipative balancing requires a lot of heat dissipation and current techniques do not guarantee optimal balance of battery pack energy, requiring a high-cost Battery Management System (BMS) solution which uses resistive components with high power value and fail to detect discrepant cells, possible damaging the BMS balance circuit. In this paper, a new methodology is proposed to perform active dissipative balance of lithium-ion cells with optimized energy management by controlling the source current in order to adjust the recharge rate between the cells in relation to their load level and the detection of discrepant cells based on the voltage values.