
Battery, Mining and Industries
Our Battery, Mining and Industries expertise provides advisory and financing solutions tailored to companies and projects in the battery, mining, and industrial sectors, as well as across the associated metals and minerals value chains.
We place strong emphasis on energy transition, reindustrialisation, and reshoring issue.
We support a broad spectrum of client, from major industry players to startups, junior companies, and mid‑tier companies, to cover mining and metals companies, Original Equipment Manufacturers, and industrial groups. We also help them navigate new technologies, geopolitical dynamics, and new regulatory frameworks as they progress toward net‑zero carbon objectives.
We operate globally, with coverage across Europe, the UK, the Americas, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Africa.
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Our solutions
Advisory, structured corporate finance and project finance funding solutions for:
- Miners and metal producers
- Start ups
- Funds
- JVs
- Industrials
... in fiels covering minerals transformation and metals transformation, battery gigafactories, semi-conductors, PV factories and the circular economy
Financing of large and diversified mining and metals companies as well as participants in targeted downstream industries
Success stories

Financing the First Significant US Copper Mine in Two Decades
Arizona’s copper reserves, formed millions of years ago, are critical to America’s energy transition and tech growth....

Pioneering Sustainable Fuel Projects in France
Elyse Energy, a French industrial SME leading the way in low-carbon molecule production, has successfully secured...

Making Japan’s first LTDA-backed BESS project a reality
Hexa Energy Services’ first battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Japan, developed under the country’s new...

Fuelling Zenobē’s European EV Expansion
Investment in large-scale rechargeable battery solutions is critical to enabling the uptake of electric vehicles and...

Enabling EV adoption with the AESC UK Plant 2
To finance its second battery manufacturing plant in the UK, AESC Group Ltd, one of the world's leading battery...

Supporting the world's first large-scale green steel plant with a groundbreaking water treatment facility
Stegra and John Laing have entered a Private-to-Private Partnership (PtPP) to create a Water Treatment Plant (WTP) for...

Powering Fuel Cell Expansion in the Northeast US
New projects using fuel cell technology that turn natural gas into electricity without combustion will help reduce...

Leveraging Renewable Energy to Boost Chile’s - And the World’s - Copper Supply
Copper demand is on the rise, driven in large part by the global energy transition and the sustainable urbanization of...
Our Experts' Views

Can Europe establish sovereignty in critical raw materials?
As the global energy transition accelerates, the strategic importance of critical raw materials, such as lithium,...

Nuclear’s Global Renaissance: Pragmatism, Innovation, and the Path to Net Zero
By Olivier Musset, Global Co-Head of Finance & Advisory, Energy Plus Group, Battery, Mining & Industries.

Supporting the decarbonisation of Australian mining
By Aaron Borg, Head of Battery, Mining & Industries for Australia, and Campbell Webster, Director, Energy+ Group for...

BESS – Emerging Asset to Essential Infrastructure
The recent closing of the substantially merchant battery financing, Constantine, along with the Zenobe led-Eccles...

The transition in the automotive industry: navigating the shift to electric and autonomous vehicles
By Societe Generale experts Nicolas Sanson, Head of Automotive and Mobility Investment Banking and Christophe Hadjal,...

Why decarbonising European steel is harder than it seems
Christophe Roux, Head of metals, mining and industries EMEA at Societe Generale, explores the challenges facing Europe's...

EV charging infrastructures in Europe: Business models and financing
Extensive and affordable access to public charging infrastructure is needed for the mass-market switch to electric...

Turning vision into reality for a sustainable EV solutions pioneer
From gigafactories to green ammonia, bankable new business models are key to accelerating the energy transition.
Awards and Rankings

Societe Generale awarded at the IJGlobal ESG Awards 2025
Societe Generale wins “ESG Global Financial Adviser of the Year" and “ESG APAC Lender of the Year” at the IJGlobal ESG...

IJGlobal Awards 2024
Societe Generale awarded Financial Adviser of the Year for Europe plus numerous "Deals of the Year" across all regions

Societe Generale wins 10 awards in sustainable finance
Global Finance has announced the winners of its fifth annual Sustainable Finance Awards for 2025 and the selections for...

Societe Generale awarded in the IJGlobal ESG Awards 2024
Societe Generale awarded both "APAC ESG Lender of the Year" and "North America ESG Lender of the Year" at the IJGlobal...