What is the Global Battery Alliance Digital Battery Passport? (And How is Glassdome Involved?)

Glassdome exists to work with manufacturers to help build a more abundant future, and few projects exemplify our vision like the Global Battery Alliance Digital Battery Passport program.

The GBA was established at the World Economic Forum in 2017 through cooperation between battery producers, mining and energy companies, and government agencies. The Digital Battery Passport initiative helps it achieve its goal of a carbon neutral battery value chain by 2050.

Glassdome is leading a pilot program for the GBA. We’re bringing together 13 global companies and organizations to get ready for the EU Battery Directive’s implementation while advancing the GBA’s other goals.

How exactly does the project work, and how will it move both of our visions forward? Read on to find out.

The Digital Battery Passport is a system that tracks, manages, and provides access to full lifecycle and sustainability data for EV and industrial batteries over 2kWh distributed in the EU. To comply, battery manufacturers and suppliers need to collect and manage key data like their product carbon footprint (PCF), percentage of recycled materials, and country of origin.

The EU Battery Directive requires the implementation of a battery passport by February 2027. The EU requires that the battery passport contains:

The GBA pilot program takes it a step further. The GBA passport, accessible via a QR code on the battery itself, will include:

Labeling data
Information necessary for identification of a specific battery and its components

Technical data
Technical parameters of a battery model and particular battery

Usage data
Information related to events during the battery’s use

Sustainability data
Sustainability performance expectations for the battery

The GBA goes several steps further than the EU when it comes to economic, social, and governance indicators.

The GBA Digital Battery Passport process will cover twenty one ESG indicators, whose frameworks are in varying degrees of completion.

Indicators marked in green have existing coverage in existing rulebooks or drafts.
Indicators marked in blue correspond to risk categories in the EU battery regulation due diligence chapter.
Indicators marked in black are remaining salient ESG issues.

Glassdome is project managing the pilot, storing the PCF data in our secure central hub, and helping companies in the pilot program navigate and learn from the initiative. We’re also acting as an expert guide that knows the details of battery passport regulation front-to-back. 

Wrangling data from thirteen companies and organizations involved isn’t easy, but our background in secure data management and sustainability metric calculation for global enterprises make us well-suited for this role. 

The members of this program are:

Are you a battery manufacturer or supplier that needs to comply with the EU Battery Directive, or wants to get ready by joining in with the GBA pilot projects?

You’re going to need to start with a Product Carbon Footprint. Glassdome’s real data-based Product Carbon Footprint solution is made for manufacturers and suppliers. It simplifies carbon compliance, with integrated data aggregation and calculation and automated reporting.