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Morrow Cell Factory

Morrow Batteries · Arendal · NO · Batteries and solar · supply security

Cancelled43 GWh per year

Morrow Cell Factory is Morrow Batteries' batteries and solar project at Arendal, Norway.

Why it matters

It will not be built.

  • Morrow Cell Factory was cancelled on 6 May 2026. as of 2026-05-06
  • It is at Arendal, Norway. as of 2026-05-08
  • It uses gigafactory-scale cell manufacturing and lithium iron phosphate cells. as of 2026-05-08
  • It is built for 43 GWh per year. as of 2026-05-08
  • No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2026-05-08

Where Morrow Cell Factory is

Morrow Cell Factory is at Arendal cell works. It was cancelled, and is drawn here and on no other frame. Nothing else drawn falls inside this frame.

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58.5004° N 8.8030° EArendal cell works

as of 2026-05-08

Status

  1. Announced
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction
  5. Operating2024-08-16
  6. Cancelled2026-05-06
  • 2024-08-16OperatingNorway's prime minister inaugurated the site, which Morrow described as Europe's first gigawatt-scale factory for lithium iron phosphate cells. The 1 GWh cell factory is the first phase of a stated 43 GWh across three further modules; the capacity here is the target for the site, per the perimeter's definition.source
  • 2026-05-06CancelledMorrow Batteries ASA filed for bankruptcy in Norway. The bankruptcy is carried by trade press; no company statement has been read, and the company's own newsroom is still up but silent on it.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.
  • Lithium iron phosphate cellscommercialA cathode of iron and phosphate rather than nickel, manganese and cobalt. Lower energy density and lower cost, and it removes the two metals whose supply is most concentrated outside Europe, which is why it is the chemistry the volume end of the market has moved to.

Funding

No public capital recorded for this project.

Sources