AESC Sunderland

AESC · Sunderland · GB · Batteries and solar · supply security

Operating15.8 GWh per year

AESC Sunderland is AESC's batteries and solar project at Sunderland, United Kingdom.

Why it matters

It is running.

AESC Sunderland started operating on 16 December 2025. as of 2025-12-16
It is at Sunderland, United Kingdom. as of 2025-12-16
It uses gigafactory-scale cell manufacturing and nickel-rich cells. as of 2025-12-16
It is built for 15.8 GWh per year. as of 2025-12-16
No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2025-12-16

AESC Sunderland is at IAMP, Sunderland. Nothing else drawn falls inside this frame.

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

54.9221° N 1.4837° WIAMP, Sunderland

as of 2025-12-16

2025-12-16OperatingAESC: 'Production is now officially underway at Envision AESC's new 15.8 GWh plant that will manufacture lithium-Ion batteries for electric vehicles made in the UK and support the launch of the new Nissan LEAF.' Dated from AESC's own news index, which lists this release at 2025-12-16.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.

No public capital recorded for this project.