Batteries are the backbone of Europe’s future energy system, its industrial base and its defence readiness. Europe is embedding them across systems at record pace while producing almost none of the key inputs. All of that is supported by public money.

Europe’s Electric Backbone sets out the strategic case to strengthen Europe’s battery value chain, the security exposure Europe risks accumulating as things stand, and what the EU must do in the next three years to scale a competitive European battery sector.

EIES report, 'Jumpstarting Europe's Battery Industry – A Strategy for Energy Security', draws on over 30 industry expert interviews to set out how Europe can strengthen its battery industry: build demand for European-made batteries, secure it against foreign pressure, and anchor it to its energy and defence needs.

Without course correction, Europe forfeits its last realistic chance at a battery industry of its own. As a gateway technology, whose supply chains, processing and know-how feed critical sectors and technologies across the continent, a domestic battery industry is a precondition for Europe's industrial resilience.

Intensifying competition from China, coupled with domestic regulatory barriers, component supply chain risks, and infrastructure bottlenecks, are challenging European wind manufacturers’ longstanding leadership. Against the Headwinds: Securing Europe’s Wind Sector, outlines a pathway to enhance European leadership in wind power.

Intensifying competition from China, coupled with domestic regulatory barriers, component supply chain risks, and infrastructure bottlenecks, are challenging European wind manufacturers’ longstanding leadership. Against the Headwinds: Securing Europe’s Wind Sector, outlines a pathway to enhance European leadership in wind power.