The paper entitled “Second Life Batteries: Current Regulatory Framework, Evaluation Methods and Economic Assessment”, presented at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering in Prague in 2022, has won the Codes and Standards Committee Prize Paper Award at the Industrial and Commercial Power System Technical Conference 2023 in Las Vegas.

The authors of the paper are Panagiotis Eleftheriadis, Sonia Leva, Manfredi Gangi, Alberto Valdes Rey from the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano; Andrea Borgo, Giacomo Coslop, Emanuele Groppo from Politecnico di Torino; Lorenzo Grande, Melissa Sedzik from Free2move eSolutions. The paper was written as part of an activity at the Alta Scuola Politecnica.

In the paper, the authors analyse the re-use of batteries from electric vehicles, the so-called second-life batteries (SLB), in relation to the entire technical, economic and regulatory context: from market demand forecasts to current applications, from the current regulatory framework to the value chain. The aim is to identify possible scenarios from a circular economy perspective. An increasingly relevant topic, given the future growth of spent batteries.

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P. Eleftheriadis et al.
Second Life Batteries: Current Regulatory Framework, Evaluation Methods, and Economic Assessment 
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