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Briefing for Roberto Viola
Workshop on 'The Future of Batteries'
29th of October, Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center, Messeplatz 1, 1021 Vienna
Room “Schubert 2”, 1st floor.
Scene setter
A year ago, Commission Vice-President Šefčovič in charge of the Energy Union conveyed
European industry stakeholders to propose a European Battery Alliance initiative aiming at
establishing a full battery value chain in Europe and at defining areas of possible public
intervention. This led to the adoption by the Commission of a 'Strategic Action Plan on
Batteries' last May. This action plan announces the launch of a FET Flagship initiative on
battery.
The present workshop focuses on preparing this FET Flagship on Future Battery Technologies. It
follows from a first workshop held last January and builds on the preparatory work done since
then by the Battery 2030+ initiative, a group of stakeholders leading the preparation of this
Flagship initiative.
The specific objective of this workshop is to prepare a Manifesto that would layout the vision
and the key objectives of the Flagship and to prepare the ground for kick-starting the Flagship in
2020. The annexed vision document is a draft of the Manifesto.
80 external participants from academia and industry have registered.
Your will open the workshop and chair the first panel.
Key messages:
- Europe launched a series of initiatives to put Europe back in the picture of countries producing
batteries for electro-mobility and stationary energy storage, notably in the context of the
European Battery Alliance. Investing in long term disruptive research is one of the important
measures for Europe to make a breakthrough in battery technologies. This is the focus of the
FET flagship initiative on Future Battery Technologies.
- A FET Flagship provides the means to accelerate the transition to the next generation of
battery technologies, enabling European industry to come back as a major player in the global
battery market.
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- Setting up such a FET Flagship requires an important preparation and a clear and broadly
endorsed research and innovation agenda, the first step being to define a manifesto. Today's
workshop is an opportunity to discuss and refine the scope and objectives of such an initiative.
Preparation will intensify in the coming months. Get engaged.
- The Flagship will be launched in 2020 and is expected to be continued under Horizon Europe.
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Opening Speaking points
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Battery technologies are set to play a key role in Europe's
energy strategy for reducing our CO2 emission and mitigating
human impact on climate change. They are for example a key
technology for clean mobility, as well as for the integration of a
greater share of intermittent and distributed renewable energy
sources in our energy mix.
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The rapidly expanding global battery market has been
estimated at 250B€1 annually from 2025 onwards driven primarily
by the needs from the transport sector but also from the energy
sector.
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Europe's position as a global leader in the automotive
market is seriously challenged by the transition to electro-mobility
in which batteries are estimated to count for up to 40% of the
value of the car.
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The battery market is clearly strategic for Europe. It is also
an industrial and economic opportunity with the possible creation
of 4 to 5 million jobs. Today, it is dominated by Li-ion technology
from Asia2. Europe cannot afford to lag behind.
1 Estimate mentioned at a recent event organised by InnoEnergy in the context of the Battery Alliance. For
2019, the market is estimated to reach 120B€, with an annual growth of 7%.
2 Korea (Samsung SDI and LG Chem) and Japan (Panasonic) are dominating the Li-ion battery market, while
China is aggressively stepping up (CATL & BYD).
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In the near future, new generations of ultra-performing
batteries, safe and sustainable will be necessary. Competition to
develop them is already high but still very much open. No clear
winning technology is yet ready for large scale deployment. This
could change the game.
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This is an opportunity for Europe which can build on its
scientific and industrial assets to come back and become a major
player in the future battery market.
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Europe has strong European industrial companies in the
upstream part of the battery value chain (e.g. battery material
manufacturers, production equipment suppliers) and in the
downstream part (tier-1 suppliers like Bosch or Continental, car
manufacturers, recycling). But there is today no strong European
player positioned in the core design and large-scale
manufacturing of battery cells for electric vehicle applications.
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For the automotive, we mean batteries providing at least a
similar performance as conventional fuel engine in terms of
autonomy, fast charging and safety.
They should enable to drive
for at least 700km, they should recharge in a few minutes and
have a lifetime of 15 to 20 years while remaining always safe
and performing.
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We need also green and sustainable batteries, meaning for
instance batteries with higher energy efficiency, produced with
the lowest CO2 footprint (e.g. using green/renewable energy), re-
usable (e.g 2nd use for stationary storage) and recyclable. They
need to take into account the availability of raw materials,
sourced either directly from mining or indirectly through future
recycling. They should avoid the use of rare resources. Today,
batteries are critically depending on cobalt and lithium the global
reserves of which are largely outside Europe3. They also need to
be economically affordable.
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For this to happen, we clearly need to mobilise all our
scientific, technical, industrial and manufacturing expertise across
the full battery value chain. We also clearly need scientific and
technological breakthroughs to be made at the core of the battery
cell to find and engineer new battery materials and chemistries
that can fulfil our needs.
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Battery cell chemistry is still today very much unknown and
poorly understood in many aspects. They operate very much as a
black box. Also, finding new battery chemistries is a very slow
process, largely based on iterative experimentation, trial and
3 Cobalt is mainly source in Republic Democratic of Congo, Lithium is mainly in Chile, China, Australia and
Argentina
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error, with many promising technologies that fail before reaching
the market.
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While there are many promising avenues based on lithium
or beyond lithium concepts such as solid-state batteries, organic
batteries, sodium-ion, lithium-sulfur and metal-air batteries, no
one can really predict the future winning material-chemistries
combinations that can best fulfil our diversity of sectorial needs
going much beyond the immediate needs of the automotive
sector.
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Mobilising our effort for cracking the battery material-
chemistry challenge and for accelerating the time to market of
new battery technologies is essential and should be at the core of
the battery flagship.
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Our experience so far with the running FET Flagships -
Graphene and the Human Brain Project, and more recently on
Quantum Technologies - shows that these are powerful
federating European initiatives. They are ambitious and risky but
with high returns in case of success as they can significantly
shorten the path from science to innovation and to the market.
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The preparatory work on a FET Flagship started last January
with a first workshop hosted in Brussels. Since then, a group of
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stakeholders has worked out a vision for a Flagship initiative
aiming at ultra-high performance, smart, safe and sustainable
batteries. Their vision will be laid out in a Manifesto, which is in
preparation and will be at the core of our discussions today.
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They propose to use the power of digital technologies to
radically change the way research on new high-performing
battery chemistries is performed. One of the ideas is to reverse-
engineer battery chemistries by using modelling, simulation and
artificial intelligence to explore, discover and validate new
materials and chemistries with a desire state of performance in a
very much automated way. Another idea is to build smart
batteries with embedded sensing capabilities and with self-
healing functionalities so that they can be aware of their 'state of
health' and can even rejuvenate themselves when necessary.
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These are certainly ambitious and highly risky ideas but at
the same time, they are very promising. They seem to have the
potential to provide Europe with a decisive competitive
advantage and open new industrial opportunities for smart high
performing batteries 'made in Europe' and adapted to specific
sectorial needs.
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While we are at the very beginning, these first ideas, if well-
implemented, could complement the ones proposed in the
context of the EU Battery Alliance initiative.
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For the battery flagship, my objective is to kick-start the
ramp-up phase of this Flagship in the last year of Horizon 2020
and then to ensure its upscaling and continuation under Horizon
Europe.
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This Manifesto needs to provide a strategic and inspiring
vision and the major areas of work required with clear targets to
reach. It should become the foundation for the batteries Flagship
and gather a wide support from all stakeholders, academia and
industry but also the public authorities.
The concrete set of questions it should answer are:
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What are the vision, scope and objectives of the
Flagship? What are the major targets to reach and by
when?
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Why should Europe engage in supporting such
Flagship? What will be its European added value and
why can EU public R&I support make the difference?
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How should the Flagship be implemented?
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The objective is to have the Manifesto ready for the ICT
Conference in Vienna early December.
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Then, your next step should be to develop the detailed
strategic research agenda for the Flagship and a suitable
governance and implementation approach.
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We aim at presenting a convincing approach at a high-level
event which we plan to hold under the Romanian presidency in
June next year and that would also mark the launch of the first
FET Flagship calls.
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In parallel, I expect the discussion on Horizon Europe to
clarify the way FET Flagships will be continued under the next
Framework Programme.
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I would like to warmly thank you for coming today and also
for having undertaken an in-depth work over the last months in
preparing this Flagship initiative. This is very much appreciated
and represents a very rich and solid basis for our discussions
today.
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I would like now to invite Professor
and her
colleagues to share their vision of this Battery Flagship and to take
us in more details through the different research challenges that
will be at the core of the Manifesto.
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Panel discussion: 'A MANIFESTO for a FET Flagship initiative on future
battery technologies'
From 9.10 to 10.20, you will moderate the panel discussion.
It will start with short presentations highlighting the main element of the proposed FET
Flagship followed by panel discussion and a Q&A with the audience. Panellists are :
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Uppsala University :
Battery 2030+ initiative
preparig the Battery Flagship
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Collège de France:
smart
batteries with sensors and self-healing capabilities
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DTU:
Interface Genome &
Material Acceleration Platform (BIG-MAP) that would accelerate discovery of new
battery chemistries
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EMIRI:
battery sustainability, manufacturability and recycling
Suggested questions for the panel discussion
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Question to the audience: Is it the right vision, scope and
objectives? Are the key objectives and research challenges proposed
for this Flagship the right ones? Do they have the right level of
ambition?
2
Question to the audience: What value do you see for industry?
How can industry contribute to this initiative?
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Question to the panellists and to the audience: How should the
Flagship be implemented? How to coordinate the various research
activities within the flagship but also connect with other ones going on
at national or European level?
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Annex 1 : Agenda
Annex 2 : Participants list
Annex 3 : Battery 2030 Vision document
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The future of batteries
A workshop of the BATTERY 2030+ initiative preparing a
FET Flagship initiative on future battery technologies
29th October, 9-12 AM
To respond to the challenge of creating a competitive and sustainable battery manufacturing
industry in Europe, the EC Vice-President for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič launched in October 2017
the EU Battery Alliance, as an industry driven initiative which led to the publication in May 2018 by
the Commission
of a
Strategic Action Plan.
One of the actions in this plan is the call for preparation of a large scale Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET) Flagship research initiative to support high-risk disruptive research on ultra-high
performance, smart and sustainable battery technologies that can provide a decisive competitive
advantage to Europe in the future. It should complement the short-medium term EU research efforts
focused on the next upcoming generation of battery technologies as well as other initiatives focused
on accelerating the deployment of manufacturing capacities in Europe.
This workshop aims to present the state of play of preparation of this Flagship initiative and to
engage with industrial stakeholders in a discussion on the main technological priorities that it should
address as well as on the potential contributions of industry to this initiative.
This workshop is organised by the Battery 2030+ initiative with the support of the European
Commission, DG CNECT1 C4-Flagship Unit.
About Battery 2030+ - at the heart of a connected green society
Following the "Future Battery Technologies for Energy Storage" workshop organised on 10th January
2018, scientists, institutes, and trade associations representing organisations all over Europe got
together to prepare a large scale initiative on future battery technologies, named Battery 2030+. The
vision of Battery 2030+ is to address the greatest challenge for the future of energy storage: to
achieve smart, ultra-high-performance batteries within a sustainable framework. This means a
disruptive, long-term research approach complementing other on-going activities in Europe with a
clear goal to present new concepts and ideas supporting European companies.
Additional information:
@kemi.uu.se
@ec.europa.eu
1 Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
Registration:
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Participation is limited to 70 attendees.
Confirmation of registration will be sent by October 5th.
Venue:
Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center, Messeplatz 1, 1021 Vienna, Austria
Room “Schubert 2”, 1st floor.
The future of batteries
A workshop of the BATTERY 2030+ initiative preparing a
FET Flagship initiative on future battery technologies
Draft Agenda
8.00-9.00
Registration
9.00-9.10
Welcome by Roberto Viola, Director General, European Commission
9.10-10.20
A MANIFESTO for a FET Flagship initiative on future battery technologies
Presentation and panel discussion
Moderator: Roberto Viola, Director General, European Commission
Panel:
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, Uppsala University : Battery 2030+ initiative
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Collège de France: Sensors and self-healing
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DTU: Battery Interface Genome & Material Acceleration
Platform (BIG-MAP)
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EMIRI: Sustainability, manufacturability and recycling
10.20-10.30 Presentation of parallel sessions
10.30-11.30 Parallel sessions
Discussion leaders:
VUB;
POLITO;
KIT;
SINTEF
11.30-11.45 Reporting from parallel sessions
11.45-12.00 Closing
European Commission
First name
Name
Organisation
Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung IPA
ENEA - Electrochemical Storage Group
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM
Forschungszentrum Jülich - Helmholtz Institute Muenster
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Voltia group
IIT- Graphene Labs
RSE-Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico
CEA
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Global Materials Labs – FCA - EMEA
University College Cork
ENEL
Honda R&D Europe (Deutschland) GmbH
Diderot Univarsity
EHA
European Commission
iPoint-Austria gmbh
University of Münster - Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology (MEET)
Technologieplattform Smart Grids Austria
SINTEF
Absyskey
UMICORE
EDF
BMW / EUCAR
NTNU - Department of Materials Science and Engineering
cyberGRID GmbH & Co. KG
COLLEGE DE FRANCE
University of Aachen
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
Freelance Journalist
Dassault Systèmes
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
SPINVERSE
Vilnius University
Roberto
Viola
European Commission
Neumann Aluminium Impact Extrusion
ANR
EUCAR
Juelich
First name
Name
Organisation
Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH
Envirohemp
Cisco System (GMBH)
Warrant group- european funding dicision
TWI
Granta design
Galiboff extrusion ltd