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CATL Debrecen

Contemporary Amperex Technology · Debrecen · HU · Batteries and solar · supply security

In construction100 GWh per year€7.3 bn total investment

CATL Debrecen is Contemporary Amperex Technology's batteries and solar project at Debrecen, Hungary.

Why it matters

It is being built.

  • CATL Debrecen went into construction on 12 August 2022. as of 2022-08-12
  • It is at Debrecen, Hungary. as of 2022-08-12
  • It uses gigafactory-scale cell manufacturing. as of 2022-08-12
  • It is built for 100 GWh per year. as of 2022-08-12
  • No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2022-08-12

Where CATL Debrecen is

CATL Debrecen is at Debrecen Southern Industrial Park. Also in frame: 6 sites using the same technology.

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

47.4632° N 21.6201° EDebrecen Southern Industrial Park

as of 2026-09-05

Status

  1. Announced
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction2022-08-12
  5. Operating
  • 2022-08-12In constructionCATL 'officially announced it will invest 7.34 billion euros to build a 100 GWh battery plant in Debrecen of east Hungary', on 221 hectares in the Southern Industrial Park, its second European site. Trade press reports cell production starting in early 2026; no company statement of a start has been read, so the status stays at construction.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