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AESC Douai

AESC · Douai · FR · Batteries and solar · supply security

Operating10 GWh per year

AESC Douai is AESC's batteries and solar project at Douai, France.

Why it matters

It is running.

  • AESC Douai started operating on 3 June 2025. as of 2025-06-03
  • It is at Douai, France. as of 2025-06-03
  • It uses gigafactory-scale cell manufacturing and nickel-rich cells. as of 2025-06-03
  • It is built for 10 GWh per year. as of 2025-06-03
  • No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2025-06-03

Where AESC Douai is

AESC Douai is at Douai gigafactory. Also in frame: 2 sites using the same technology.

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50.3556° N 3.0266° EDouai gigafactory

as of 2025-12-11

Status

  1. Announced
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction
  5. Operating2025-06-03
  • 2025-06-03OperatingAESC 'hosted a ceremony announcing the Start of Production (SOP)' with President Macron attending. 'With an annual production capacity of 10 GWh, the facility currently supplies advanced batteries for Renault.' The site runs electrode production, cell assembly and module integration, so it is a cell works and not an assembly line. THE RELEASE CARRIES NO DATE on the page and none in the index saved with it; 3 June 2025 is the date of the ceremony in contemporaneous reporting, and is recorded here as that rather than as the company's own dating.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.
  • 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.

Funding

No public capital recorded for this project.

Sources