The company will partner with German giant Siemens as it looks to start construction this summer on a 3,000-job gigafactory on the site of a former Blyth Power Station.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the new gigaplant site in Blyth. Photo Owen Humphreys/PA Wire. MAJOR investment to the tune of £2.6 billion and prospect of 3,000 jobs for Northumberland will be a huge economic boost for the area. That s the verdict of Coun. Glen Sanderson, the leader of Northumberland County Council, after Britishvolt, which specialises in battery technologies, selected Cambois as the site of the UK’s first gigaplant for electric vehicle batteries. It follows Prime Minister Boris Johnson s visit to the site, near Blyth, on Friday. Britishvolt aims to begin construction on the former Power Station site in Summer 2021 and begin production of lithium-ion batteries by the end of 2023.
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- UK s first battery gigaplant will be built in Blyth, Northumberland and will be operational by the end of 2023
- Global construction specialist ISG will lead the build of the Britishvolt gigaplant
- Britishvolt gigaplant has been designed by Pininfarina and will produce world-class lithium-ion batteries for the automotive and energy storage industries
- £2.6bn total investment: gigaplant will provide 3000 jobs and up to 5000 in the wider supply chain
LONDON, Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Britishvolt, the UK s foremost investor in battery technologies, has appointed global specialist ISG to lead construction on the UK s first battery gigaplant.
The new gigaplant will be sited in Blyth, Northumberland, with construction planned to commence in Summer 2021. The result of £2.6bn investment, it will begin producing world-class lithium-ion batteries for the automotive and renewable energy industries at the end of 2023. Construction of further phases will continue until th
Click the thumbs up >Britishvolt s new UK battery gigaplant will start production of electric vehicle (EV) batteries from 2023 and will scale to 300,000 units a year.
Global construction specialist ISG has been appointed to lead the build of the £2.6 billion project located at Blyth, Northermberland.
Construction will start in the second half of 2021 and once the plant is up and running it will produce lithium-ion batteries for the automotive and renewable energy industries at the end of 2023.
Construction of further phases will continue until the end of 2027.
The Blyth gigaplant is located 20 miles north of Nissan s Sunderland factory, which makes the Leaf EV.