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Released April 22, 2024 | GALWAY, IRELAND
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Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland)--A US$2 billion project to locate a massive lithium-ion battery gigafactory in Portugal has been given the environmental green light.
Located at the Port of Sines, 80 kilometers south of the country's capital city of Lisbon, the project is being developed by China Aviation Lithium Battery Technology (CALB) (Luoyang, China) and will be its first European plant. The first phase of the project will have an annual capacity of 15 gigawatt-hours (GWh) and is estimated to go into operation by the end 2025. The company expects to be supplying batteries to a number of European electric vehicle (EV) brands before tripling the plant's output to 45 GWh by 2028.
The project received the environmental go-ahead from the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) despite strong opposition, but not without more than 90 conditions attached. It sits on around 45 hectares of a large site in the Sines Industrial and Logistics Zone (ZILS) and will require a grant of special status from the Government in order to clear a large section of forest with many protected species of tree. The aim is to build five buildings for the production of electrodes, cells, formation and assembly, packaging and casings. The APA ruling stated: "After considering the negative impacts identified and the positive impacts envisaged, a favorable decision is issued, conditioned on compliance with the terms and conditions imposed in this document".
The company has seven battery manufacturing plants in China with an estimated total annual capacity of 200 GWh. Last year it was ranked as the world's sixth largest EV battery maker with a share of just under 5%, up from seventh in 2022, by SNE Research. The company has publicly committed to expand its total annual capacity to 500 GWh by 2025 and 1,000 GWh by 2030.
Chinese battery makers have been increasingly targeting Europe as a location for EV battery plants in recent years. Global market leader Contemporary Amperex Technology Company Limited (CATL) (Ningde, China), is spending almost US$8 billion on building its second European plant at Debrecen in Hungary. The 100 GWh plant will employ 9,000 people and supply both cells and modules to European automakers including Mercedes-Benz (Stuttgart, Germany) and BMW (Munich, Germany). Industrial Info is also tracking the U.K.'s leading EV battery gigafactory project, being developed by China's Envision AESC with carmaker Nissan Motor Company Limited (Yokohama, Japan) in Sunderland, England. It will have an annual capacity of 12 GWh when it is commissioned in 2025, rising to an annual capacity of up to 38 GWh when fully expanded in later years.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking over 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 Trillion (USD).
Located at the Port of Sines, 80 kilometers south of the country's capital city of Lisbon, the project is being developed by China Aviation Lithium Battery Technology (CALB) (Luoyang, China) and will be its first European plant. The first phase of the project will have an annual capacity of 15 gigawatt-hours (GWh) and is estimated to go into operation by the end 2025. The company expects to be supplying batteries to a number of European electric vehicle (EV) brands before tripling the plant's output to 45 GWh by 2028.
The project received the environmental go-ahead from the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) despite strong opposition, but not without more than 90 conditions attached. It sits on around 45 hectares of a large site in the Sines Industrial and Logistics Zone (ZILS) and will require a grant of special status from the Government in order to clear a large section of forest with many protected species of tree. The aim is to build five buildings for the production of electrodes, cells, formation and assembly, packaging and casings. The APA ruling stated: "After considering the negative impacts identified and the positive impacts envisaged, a favorable decision is issued, conditioned on compliance with the terms and conditions imposed in this document".
The company has seven battery manufacturing plants in China with an estimated total annual capacity of 200 GWh. Last year it was ranked as the world's sixth largest EV battery maker with a share of just under 5%, up from seventh in 2022, by SNE Research. The company has publicly committed to expand its total annual capacity to 500 GWh by 2025 and 1,000 GWh by 2030.
Chinese battery makers have been increasingly targeting Europe as a location for EV battery plants in recent years. Global market leader Contemporary Amperex Technology Company Limited (CATL) (Ningde, China), is spending almost US$8 billion on building its second European plant at Debrecen in Hungary. The 100 GWh plant will employ 9,000 people and supply both cells and modules to European automakers including Mercedes-Benz (Stuttgart, Germany) and BMW (Munich, Germany). Industrial Info is also tracking the U.K.'s leading EV battery gigafactory project, being developed by China's Envision AESC with carmaker Nissan Motor Company Limited (Yokohama, Japan) in Sunderland, England. It will have an annual capacity of 12 GWh when it is commissioned in 2025, rising to an annual capacity of up to 38 GWh when fully expanded in later years.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking over 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 Trillion (USD).
