Northvolt’s Poland ESS plant amongst 17 winners of €1.8 billion EU grant

Lithium-ion gigafactory firm Northvolt’s power storage system (ESS) meeting manufacturing facility in Poland has received a share of €1.8 billion (US$1.8 billion) in EU grant funding, together with a battery recycling plant in north France.

Northvolt’s ‘NorthSTOR PLUS’ ESS meeting plant in Gdańsk will assemble ESS options utilizing the corporate’s batteries, which it claims would be the greenest on this planet. It would have an preliminary output of 5GWh per yr and the corporate is already investing US$200 million of its personal cash within the facility.

The EU cash is from the third spherical of its Innovation Fund and grants will go in direction of energy-intensive industries like cement, chemical substances and refineries, hydrogen, renewable power, carbon seize and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key parts for power storage and renewables.

The Innovation Fund has €38 billion to spend till 2030 and goals to spend money on the subsequent era of low-carbon applied sciences and provides EU corporations a first-mover benefit. The precise quantity that’s gone to every challenge on this spherical has not been revealed whereas a straight break up would equate to €105 million every.

The successful tasks had been evaluated by unbiased consultants based mostly on their capacity to scale back greenhouse fuel emissions in comparison with conventional applied sciences whereas being sufficiently mature for deployment, and different choice standards included potential for scalability and cost-effectiveness.

Northvolt’s tasks’ description in EU documentation mentioned the Poland plant will end result a value discount of 16,9-18,8% per kWh for the end-customer. It would use high-nickel nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cells that it says have the next energy-density than incumbent cells out there as we speak.

Over 90% of the parts and gear utilized in manufacturing will likely be sourced from the European provide chain.

One other power storage firm amongst the 17 winners was the ReLieVe lithium-ion battery recycling plant challenge in Dunkirk, north France, launched by mining and metallurgy firm ERAMET. It would produce and refine black mass into supplies for injection again into the battery provide chain.

Sweden-based Northvolt just lately raised a US$1.1 billion convertible debt facility from a dozen traders to finance its growth, amidst what it advised Power-Storage.information was a “cautious capital market”. Two months in the past, its recycling plant in Norway began operations.

In associated information, an ESS manufacturing plant in Turkey just lately gained regulator approval for the primary stage of funding within the challenge. Kontrolmatik’s Pomega manufacturing plant, beforehand reported on by Power-Storage.information, has been accepted as a precedence funding by the Ministry of Business and Know-how.

It has obtained its regional funding incentive certificates which suggests it could kick on with the primary section of funding within the website totalling 917 million Lira (US$52 million).