Pioneering Australia’s Battery Recycling Future.
As battery adoption accelerates across homes, businesses, and transport, the question of what happens to batteries at end of life has never been more urgent. Inno Energy Group — through our innovation arm PCI Green — is at the forefront of solving it.
Australia’s Battery Challenge
Millions of lithium-ion batteries are sold in Australia every year — in electric vehicles, solar storage systems, consumer electronics, and industrial equipment. The vast majority of these batteries currently have no clear recycling pathway, creating a growing environmental and economic challenge.
Battery materials, including lithium, cobalt, and nickel, are valuable finite resources. When batteries end up in landfills, those materials are lost forever — and can cause significant environmental harm. Australia needs a homegrown recycling industry, and it needs it now.
Where Inno Energy Group Comes In?
We are an industry partner of the ARC Training Centre for Battery Recycling. This national initiative, funded by the Australian Research Council and administered by Adelaide University, is building the technology, workforce, and industry standards needed to make large-scale battery recycling a reality in Australia.
Our contribution spans some of the Centre’s most critical research themes, including:
Advanced battery cooling and thermal management
Our proprietary Phase Change Inhibited (PCI) material technology improves battery safety and longevity, making batteries safer to handle, recycle, and repurpose.
Battery second-life assessment
Supporting research into how spent batteries can be screened, sorted, and redirected to second-life applications before full recycling
Industry-scale commercialisation
Bridging the gap between laboratory breakthroughs and scalable commercial battery recycling operations
Building a Circular Economy for Energy
The batteries we sell and deploy today should not become tomorrow’s waste. At Inno Energy Group, we believe the full lifecycle of a battery — from manufacture and deployment through to second life and recycling — is our responsibility as an energy company.
Our involvement in the ARC Training Centre reflects a long-term commitment: not just to selling world-class battery storage products, but to ensuring those products are part of a sustainable, circular system that benefits Australia’s environment and economy.
Want to Know More About Our Battery Recycling Work?
Whether you’re a potential industry partner, researcher, or customer interested in sustainable battery solutions, we’d love to hear from you.