ACC Billy-Berclau Douvrin

Automotive Cells Company · Billy-Berclau/Douvrin · FR · Batteries and solar · supply security

Operating13 GWh per year

ACC Billy-Berclau Douvrin is Automotive Cells Company's batteries and solar project at Billy-Berclau/Douvrin, France.

Why it matters

It is running.

ACC Billy-Berclau Douvrin started operating on 30 May 2023. as of 2023-05-30
It is at Billy-Berclau/Douvrin, France. as of 2023-05-30
It uses gigafactory-scale cell manufacturing and nickel-rich cells. as of 2023-05-30
It is built for 13 GWh per year. as of 2023-05-30
€200 million of public money has been committed to it. as of 2025-07-04

ACC Billy-Berclau Douvrin is at Billy-Berclau/Douvrin gigafactory. Also in frame: 2 sites using the same technology.

filled: operating, commissioning or under constructionhollow: announced, funded, or pausedringed: this project

50.5186° N 2.8485° EBilly-Berclau/Douvrin gigafactory

as of 2025-12-11

2023-05-30OperatingInaugurated on 30 May 2023 with more than 13 GWh, rising to 40 GWh by 2030. ACC stated the first of the site's three production units would be operational before the end of 2023; the history starts at the inauguration because that is the first event sourced here.source

Gigafactory-scale cell manufacturingcommercialElectrode coating, cell assembly and formation run at gigawatt-hour scale on one site. It is the process node rather than a chemistry: the same lines make several chemistries, and what decides whether Europe has cells is whether the lines exist and yield, not which cathode runs through them.
Nickel-rich cellscommercialNickel-manganese-cobalt and nickel-cobalt-aluminium cathodes. Higher energy density than iron phosphate and the chemistry most European cell capacity was designed around, at the cost of depending on nickel and cobalt.

€200 mEU Innovation Fundsignedets:FND-03Awarded under the Innovation Fund as it stands today (Art. 10a(8) of Directive 2003/87/EC). The register carries the Fund through the ETS revision's Art. 10cb, which re-establishes it, so ets:FND-03 is the register's handle on the programme rather than the provision this award was made under.“AMOUNT OF INNOVATION FUND GRANT EUR 200,000,000”source source