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Britishvolt Blyth

Britishvolt · Cambois, Blyth · GB · Batteries and solar · supply security

Cancelled35 GWh per year

Britishvolt Blyth is Britishvolt's batteries and solar project at Cambois, Blyth, United Kingdom.

Why it matters

It will not be built.

  • Britishvolt Blyth was cancelled on 17 January 2023. as of 2023-01-17
  • It was to be at Cambois, Blyth, United Kingdom. as of 2026-09-06
  • It uses gigafactory-scale cell manufacturing. as of 2026-09-06
  • It was to be built for 35 GWh per year. as of 2026-09-06
  • No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2026-09-06

Where Britishvolt Blyth is

Britishvolt Blyth is cancelled, and this register holds no position for it. It was to be at Cambois, Blyth, United Kingdom; the works was never placed to the precision a mark on a picture would claim, and looking for one was not thought worth doing on a project that stopped.

LOCATION NOT SOUGHT: PROJECT CANCELLED. The perimeter asks for a site the company has confirmed and a citable source can place, and the second half is research that only pays for itself on a works somebody might visit. The company went into administration in January 2023 and is now in liquidation; nothing was built on the Cambois site and what stands there now is somebody else's project. THE POSITION IS KNOWN TO BE FINDABLE AND IS NOT BEING FOUND: Northumberland's permit 21/00818/FULES names the parcel — 'Land At Former Power Station Site On Northern Side Of Cambois', 92.2 hectares — and the committee report that carries it refuses this pipeline. A person could open it in a minute. The absence is recorded as a decision rather than left as a gap: this register looks for a position on projects that are being built, and says so where it has not looked.

Status

  1. Announced2020-12-10
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction
  5. Operating
  6. Cancelled2023-01-17
  • 2020-12-10AnnouncedBritishvolt's own announcement: the north-east site at Cambois, near Blyth, for what it called Britain's first battery gigafactory. Capacity 35 GWh at completion.source
  • 2023-01-17CancelledADMINISTRATORS APPOINTED, from the official record rather than from reporting. The London Gazette's notice 4260297 of 19 January 2023, category Corporate Insolvency, type Appointment of Administrators: POWER BY BRITISHVOLT LIMITED (company number 12381543), 'Date of Appointment: 17 January 2023', administrators Joanne Honor Robinson and Alan Michael Hudson of Ernst & Young LLP and Daniel Christopher Hurd. Companies House carries the same case — administration started 17 January 2023, ended 28 October 2024 — and the company's status is now Liquidation, a creditors' voluntary liquidation whose winding up commenced on 28 October 2024. The status date is the appointment and not the publication: the company stopped on the 17th and the Gazette said so on the 19th.source

Technology and measures

  • 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.

Funding

No public capital recorded for this project.

Sources