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Overcoming barriers to improved decision-making for battery deployment in the clean energy transition

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Oliver Heidrich

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© 2024 The Author(s). Decarbonization plans depend on the rapid, large-scale deployment of batteries to sufficiently decarbonize the electricity system and on-road transport. This can take many forms, shaped by technology, materials, and supply chain selection, which will have local and global environmental and social impacts. Current knowledge gaps limit the ability of decision-makers to make choices in facilitating battery deployment that minimizes or avoids unintended environmental and social consequences. These gaps include a lack of harmonized, accessible, and up-to-date data on manufacturing and supply chains and shortcomings within sustainability and social impact assessment methods, resulting in uncertainty that limits incorporation of research into policy making. These gaps can lead to unintended detrimental effects of large-scale battery deployment. To support decarbonization goals while minimizing negative environmental and social impacts, we elucidate current barriers to tracking how decision-making for large-scale battery deployment translates to environmental and social impacts and recommend steps to overcome them.

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Author(s): Tarroja B, Schoenung JM, Ogunseitan O, Kendall A, Qiu Y, Malloy T, Peters J, Cha JM, Mulvaney D, Heidrich O, Baumann M

Publication type: Review

Publication status: Published

Journal: iScience

Year: 2024

Volume: 27

Issue: 6

Print publication date: 21/06/2024

Online publication date: 03/05/2024

Acceptance date: 02/04/2018

ISSN (electronic): 2589-0042

Publisher: Elsevier Inc.

URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109898

DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109898

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