Stationary storage and BESS
You assemble the system. The cell comes from elsewhere.
Containers, cabinets and home systems above 2 kWh placed on the EU market need a passport from 18 February 2027. The obligation sits with whoever places the system on the market, not with the cell supplier.
In scope
What the Regulation asks of your sector.
Every industrial battery above 2 kWh is in scope. A 5 kWh home battery is, a 1.5 kWh unit is not, and the threshold is read system by system, so one range can be split. The integrator who places the system on the EU market under its name is the economic operator, even when every cell is imported.
One passport per system, opened by a QR code on the product, with the data served to the buyer, the recycler and the authorities according to their rights.
Where the data sit
Who holds what.
The hard point is obtaining the supplier’s documents and linking each delivered system to the cell batches it carries.
- Cell chemistry
- Upstream carbon footprint
- Safety data sheet, UN 38.3
- Batch numbers per delivery
- System identity and rated values
- BMS and test reports
- Dismantling and safety manuals
- Link system to cell batches
- Developers and EPCs
- Utilities and insurers
- Recyclers and authorities
Who is already moving
The first passports are published.
- Dec. 2024Solaris and BVG Berlin
First series-produced electric buses delivered with a battery passport, on 700 kWh batteries, opened by a QR code on the battery.
- 2024 to 2027BASE project, Horizon Europe
A stationary use case with BeePlanet Factory pilots the passport on energy storage, alongside Corvus Energy, Navtek and Mercedes-Benz Türk.
- March 2024Battery Pass consortium
Systemiq, BMW, Umicore, Circulor and partners published the technical guidance and a working demonstrator covering industrial batteries.
What changes for you
Three places where the passport counts.
Placed on the market with its passport
From 18 February 2027 a system in scope is placed on the EU market with its passport. Customs and market surveillance check it at the border and in the field.
The tender asks for it
Developers, utilities and EPCs put the passport and the carbon footprint in their specifications. Public buyers must weigh them under Article 85 and the Net-Zero Industry Act.
Handover runs on traceability
Financing, insurance and commissioning all ask for traceability. A complete passport at delivery keeps the project on schedule.
Working back from 18 February 2027
What has to happen, and when.
One to three months from launch to a published passport, and your cell supplier on the critical path, slowed by the year-end break. Prudent assumptions.
- Before 30 November 2026Supplier request sent
Weeks for the answer, before the year-end break and Chinese New Year.
- Before 24 December 2026Compliance work launched
References listed, template filled, first checks passed.
- Early February 2027Passports published
One QR code per battery, on the product and in the documents.
- 18 February 2027The obligation applies
A battery in scope without its passport cannot be placed on the market.
Working back from the deadline with the prudent assumptions of our retroplanning. Fewer references and cooperative suppliers go faster, twelve configurations and silent suppliers go slower.
The platform, for your sector
Create, manage, share.
- Model once, systems manyWhat applies to a product line is entered once. Each delivered system gets its own passport, with its cell batches.
- The supplier request kitThe exact documents to ask your cell maker, the letter in English and Chinese, and a dated log of your requests.
- Documents attachedDismantling manual, safety instructions and declaration of conformity travel with the passport, per system.
Next step
Your sector, on one of your references.
Thirty minutes on one of your systems. You see its passport and leave with the list of what is missing.