E-mail: [email protected] Received 3rd March 2025, Accepted 15th May 2025 Although lead–acid batteries (LABs) often act as a reference system to environmentally assess existing and emerging storage technologies, no study on the environmental impact of LABs based on primary data from Europe or North America since 2010 could be found.
From an LCA point of view, while the LAB is potentially the better environmental choice for a data centre (with few charge/discharge cycles), an LFP battery should be used in applications with many charge/discharge cycles, like in an HSS. This indicates that batteries always need to be investigated and compared on an application-specific basis.
In conclusion, from a purely environmental point of view, the LAB should be preferentially used in the application case data centre (or similar applications with comparable load profiles), while the LFP battery is preferred in the case of HSS.
In this light it is interesting that the EU battery directive aims for a share of 85% recycled material used in industrial batteries in 2031. These advanced lead recycling processes are therefore taken account of by the combination of the closed-loop and the cut-off approaches.
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Lead-Acid Batteries: Although facing declining market share (approximately 20%), lead-acid batteries are favored for their established technology and lower cost.
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