Gavin Joins Battery Supply Chain Panel at Solar & Storage Live 2023, NEC Birmingham

Gavin took part in a panel discussion at Solar & Storage Live 2023 at the NEC, Birmingham, in October 2023. The session was moderated by Victoria Hugill of Rho Motion, with fellow panellists from the Faraday Institution, UKBIC and Infyos.

The discussion covered challenges in the electric vehicle battery supply chain, the critical materials needed for battery manufacturing, and how different cathode chemistries and future battery technologies could ease some of those pressures. It also considered how batteries from solar and storage installations should be managed at end of life.

Gavin drew on research from the Faraday Institution's ReLiB project, Met4Tech and the EPSRC TReFCo project, carried out with the Birmingham Energy Institute and the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials at the University of Birmingham.

He also spoke to Regan Slaymaker at the event about end-of-life management of home energy storage batteries, including how value can be recovered from lithium iron phosphate systems and how batteries can be designed for recycling.