INEGI, partners of the GIGAGREEN project who oversee the Life Cycle Assessment of the project, led two workshop sessions on July 10th and September 24th, framed in the Battery Heroes cluster activities. The Battery Heroes is compound by seven EU-Funded projects: NoVOC, BatWoman, greenSPEED, Gigagreen, Batmachine, Gigabat, and LiPlanet.
The sessions were aimed at finding common challenges and solutions towards LCA among all the projects that are part of the workshop. A key topic was the difficulty in obtaining primary data from battery material suppliers due to confidentiality issues. Participants proposed the use of benchmark environmental impacts to encourage data sharing.
The group also established, after the second session, the Battery Heroes Sustainability Working Group to harmonize methodologies across various battery-related projects. This working group will focus on overcoming data challenges, aligning best practices for environmental, social, and cost-related LCAs, and establishing reference conditions for project comparisons. One of their goals is to investigate the potential to align methodologies with the European Commission’s Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method.
Upcoming discussions will centre around strategies for addressing data shortages and standardizing LCA methodologies across projects. The working group aims to produce a paper or report outlining these strategies.
RISE, part of the NoVoc, BatWoman and Gigabat consortia, will lead the next meeting in a month, which will further define timelines, topics, and deliverables. There is also an opportunity for the group to participate in key industry events like B2030+ and B2050+.
The meeting concluded with a commitment to collaboration, recognizing the need for consistency in sustainability assessments, and an expanded focus on social and cost-related aspects in addition to environmental ones.
