Status
Operational: status carried from the legacy record
Process: refurbishment. Capacity: 1,000 t/yr (Legacy figure; not re-verified).
UK second-life specialist; modular Ciclon battery system using bolt-together architecture for easy cell replacement; developing markets focus (Africa, SE Asia) where new cell economics prohibitive.
Customers and offtakers: C&I / off-grid / developing markets.
Plant record
Plant record
| Company | Aceleron Energy |
| Plant | Birmingham Second Life |
| City | Birmingham |
| State or province | West Midlands |
| Country | UK |
| Type | Second life |
| Process | refurbishment |
| Output stage | repurposed packs |
| Input chemistries | NMC (mixed OEM packs) |
| Output products | Modular refurbished BESS |
| Capacity (t/yr input) | 1000 |
| Capacity basis | Legacy figure; not re-verified |
| Status | operational |
| Status note | Status carried from the legacy record; not re-verified |
| Scale | commercial |
| Start year | 2019 |
| Investment (US$ billion) | 0.0 |
| Customers and offtakers | C&I / off-grid / developing markets |
| OEM partnerships | Multiple OEM pack sources |
| Under EU Battery Regulation | Yes |
| Geopolitical exposure | LOW |
| Record updated | 2026-10 |
In context
Where it fits
Listed in EV Battery Recycling Facilities. Recyclers are compared on where they stop: shredding to black mass, smelting to alloy, or refining to battery-grade salts that go back into cathode plants; only refining keeps the metal in the region. See Battery Recycling for the process and the market.
| Plant | Country | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Devon Recycling Pilot (Altilium Metals) | UK | operational |
Sources
Sources and scope
- Scope
- Birmingham Second Life (Aceleron Energy)
- Sources
- ElectronsX recycling dataset; company disclosures
- Updated
- 2026-10