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PowerCo Salzgitter

PowerCo · Salzgitter · DE · Batteries and solar · supply security

Operating20 GWh per year

PowerCo Salzgitter is PowerCo's batteries and solar project at Salzgitter, Germany.

Why it matters

It is running.

  • PowerCo Salzgitter started operating on 17 December 2025. as of 2025-12-17
  • It is at Salzgitter, Germany. as of 2025-12-17
  • It uses gigafactory-scale cell manufacturing. as of 2025-12-17
  • It is built for 20 GWh per year. as of 2025-12-17
  • No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2025-12-17

Where PowerCo Salzgitter is

PowerCo Salzgitter is at Salzgitter gigafactory. Its position is Volkswagen AG Salzgitter works, the works it stands on, rather than the installation itself. Also in frame: 2 sites using the same technology.

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52.1870° N 10.4432° ESalzgitter gigafactory

as of 2026-07-22

Status

  1. Announced
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction
  5. Operating2025-12-17
  • 2025-12-17OperatingPowerCo 'commissioned the Salzgitter gigafactory as planned and produced the first Unified Cells made in Europe'. First expansion stage 20 GWh, expandable to 40 GWh.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