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Northvolt Ett

Lyten · Skellefteå · SE · Batteries and solar · supply security

Paused

Northvolt Ett is Lyten's batteries and solar project at Skellefteå, Sweden.

Why it matters

Work has stopped, and the reason is in its history below.

  • Northvolt Ett was paused on 12 March 2025. as of 2025-03-12
  • It is at Skellefteå, Sweden. as of 2026-02-26
  • It uses gigafactory-scale cell manufacturing and nickel-rich cells. as of 2026-02-26
  • No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2026-02-26

Where Northvolt Ett is

Northvolt Ett is at Skellefteå gigafactory. Nothing else drawn falls inside this frame.

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64.7340° N 21.0871° ESkellefteå gigafactory

as of 2026-02-26

Status

  1. Announced
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction
  5. Operating
  6. Paused2025-03-12
  • 2025-03-12PausedNorthvolt AB, Northvolt Ett AB, Northvolt Labs AB, Northvolt Revolt AB and Northvolt Systems AB filed for bankruptcy in Sweden on 12 March 2025. A court-appointed trustee was to determine the future of the production facilities. The history starts here because it is the first event sourced on this row; the site produced cells from 2021.source
  • 2026-02-26PausedLyten completed the acquisition of Northvolt Ett, Ett Expansion and Northvolt Labs and said it would begin the restart process immediately, with commercial cells planned for the second half of 2026. The site did not change status: it is the owner that changed, and the restart had not happened when this was recorded.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