Big investments are being made into the battery recycling sector in Europe as the continent looks to increase the domestic supply of critical materials for its lithium-ion gigafactory projects.
The EU is ‘stepping up its game on battery gigafactories’, European Commission executive VP Maroš Šefčovič said at the Giga Europe conference today (12 March).
Spain and the Netherlands have launched subsidy schemes to support domestic manufacturing of clean energy technologies, including batteries and solar PV modules.
While more energy-dense BESS units mean packing more into smaller footprints, they may have additional implications for noise and fire safety, a developer source told Energy-Storage.news.