How sustainability can get a competitive advantage: State of the art for stationary battery storage systems
Stationary battery storage systems are becoming a critical energy infrastructure around the world. Therefore, responsible handling of battery materials is a fundamental precondition to avoid future social, environmental, and political conflicts. Global battery regulations support sustainable batteri...
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| description | Stationary battery storage systems are becoming a critical energy infrastructure around the world. Therefore, responsible handling of battery materials is a fundamental precondition to avoid future social, environmental, and political conflicts. Global battery regulations support sustainable batteries to drive new business models on reuse, remanufacturing and recycling. With strict environmental market entry barriers, the EU will set minimum sustainability standards with the new EU-Battery Directive. The US Inflation Reduction Act provides financial incentives for a scale-up of the domestic battery industry. A hotspot analysis for the residential storage system VARTA.wall shows that a combination of reuse and recycling strategies can reduce the climate change impact by up to 45% and mineral resource use by up to 50% compared to initial battery designs. However, specific sustainability criteria and manufacturer-independent standards need to be set up by politics and industry organizations to bring the necessary technical and logistic infrastructure to the market. The challenge is to set up sustainability criteria strict enough to ensure responsible material handling but still allow cost-effective, practical solutions as well as affordable battery standards. Therefore, our analysis shows the limits of current and the need for future regulations to shift market incentives to sustainable batteries and their infrastructure. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a0d1357a3eca4f3b8352c4e21ff059112024-12-12T05:24:33ZengElsevierCleaner Chemical Engineering2772-78232024-12-0110100122How sustainability can get a competitive advantage: State of the art for stationary battery storage systemsBenjamin Achzet0Denise Ott1Rica Fleiner2Marvin Gornik3Andrea Thorenz4Christoph Helbig5VARTA Storage GmbH, Nürnberger Str. 64-65, 86720 Nördlingen, Germany; Corresponding authors.EurA AG, Sustainability Division, Krämpferstr. 2, 99084 Erfurt, Germany; Corresponding authors.VARTA Storage GmbH, Nürnberger Str. 64-65, 86720 Nördlingen, GermanyEurA AG, Sustainability Division, Krämpferstr. 2, 99084 Erfurt, GermanyResource Lab, Institute of Materials Resource Management, University of Augsburg, Universitätsstr. 16, 86159 Augsburg, GermanyUniversity of Bayreuth, Bavarian Center for Battery Technology (BayBatt), Universitätsstr. 30, 95447 Bayreuth, GermanyStationary battery storage systems are becoming a critical energy infrastructure around the world. Therefore, responsible handling of battery materials is a fundamental precondition to avoid future social, environmental, and political conflicts. Global battery regulations support sustainable batteries to drive new business models on reuse, remanufacturing and recycling. With strict environmental market entry barriers, the EU will set minimum sustainability standards with the new EU-Battery Directive. The US Inflation Reduction Act provides financial incentives for a scale-up of the domestic battery industry. A hotspot analysis for the residential storage system VARTA.wall shows that a combination of reuse and recycling strategies can reduce the climate change impact by up to 45% and mineral resource use by up to 50% compared to initial battery designs. However, specific sustainability criteria and manufacturer-independent standards need to be set up by politics and industry organizations to bring the necessary technical and logistic infrastructure to the market. The challenge is to set up sustainability criteria strict enough to ensure responsible material handling but still allow cost-effective, practical solutions as well as affordable battery standards. Therefore, our analysis shows the limits of current and the need for future regulations to shift market incentives to sustainable batteries and their infrastructure.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277278232400007XBatteryRegulationStationary storageLife cycle assessment |
| spellingShingle | Benjamin Achzet Denise Ott Rica Fleiner Marvin Gornik Andrea Thorenz Christoph Helbig How sustainability can get a competitive advantage: State of the art for stationary battery storage systems Cleaner Chemical Engineering Battery Regulation Stationary storage Life cycle assessment |
| title | How sustainability can get a competitive advantage: State of the art for stationary battery storage systems |
| title_full | How sustainability can get a competitive advantage: State of the art for stationary battery storage systems |
| title_fullStr | How sustainability can get a competitive advantage: State of the art for stationary battery storage systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | How sustainability can get a competitive advantage: State of the art for stationary battery storage systems |
| title_short | How sustainability can get a competitive advantage: State of the art for stationary battery storage systems |
| title_sort | how sustainability can get a competitive advantage state of the art for stationary battery storage systems |
| topic | Battery Regulation Stationary storage Life cycle assessment |
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