On December 17, 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the seven winners of Phase II of the Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize. The phased prize competition is designed to help find innovative solutions to collecting, storing, and transporting discarded lithium-ion batteries for eventual recycling. The goal is to develop and demonstrate processes that, when scaled, have the potential to profitably capture 90% of all discarded or spent lithium-based batteries in the United States, and re-introduce key materials into the U.S. supply chain.
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The $5.5 million Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize was announced in January 2019. The Prize is sponsored by the Vehicle Technologies Office and the Advanced Manufacturing Office. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) serves as the administrator of the Prize. To learn more about the Battery Recycling Prize, please visit AmericanMadeChallenges.org/BatteryRecycling.
The Department of Energy’s Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize is a three-phase competition designed to fast-track innovative solutions to current challenges in collecting, sorting, storing, and transporting spent and discarded lithium-ion batteries for eventual recycling. In Phase two of this Prize, fourteen winning teams from Phase one advanced their winning concepts into an end-to-end solution.
The Battery Recycling Prize supports the DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge, which draws on the extensive research capabilities of the DOE National Laboratories, universities, and industry to accelerate the development of energy-storage technologies and sustain American global leadership in the energy storage technologies of the future.
The seven winning teams receive $357,000 in cash prizes and up to $100,000 in non-cash vouchers to support their innovations with approved American-Made Challenges Network partners. These teams compete in the third and final phase of the Prize, where they will develop a complete pilot-scale validation of their end-to-end solutions.
The seven winners of Phase two are Li Industries, OnTo Technologies, Powering the Future, Renewance, Smartville, Team Portables, Titan Advanced Energy Solutions
Congratulations to these seven teams. Check out the teams batteryrecyclingprize.org. We look forward to seeing their innovations grow in the final phase of the Prize. Good luck!