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UniverCell Flintbek

UniverCell Holding GmbH · Flintbek · DE · Batteries and solar · supply security

Operating1.5 GWh per year

UniverCell Flintbek is UniverCell Holding GmbH's batteries and solar project at Flintbek, Germany.

Why it matters

It is running.

  • UniverCell Flintbek started operating on 12 September 2026. as of 2026-09-12
  • Its site is at Flintbek, Germany. as of 2026-09-12
  • It uses gigafactory-scale cell manufacturing. as of 2026-09-12
  • It is built for 1.5 GWh per year. as of 2026-09-12
  • No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2026-09-12

Where UniverCell Flintbek is

UniverCell Flintbek is at Flintbek, Germany, and this register holds no position for it. The company has confirmed the site and no citable source places the works: it is being built where nobody has yet drawn it. The row is held anyway — position is not a condition of being on file — and what was searched, and what was found instead, is below.

POSITION OUTSTANDING, AND THE ADDRESS IS ON FILE RATHER THAN DRAWN. UniverCell publishes 'Unser Standort: Konrad-Zuse-Ring 1, 24220 Flintbek, Deutschland' on its own company page, in the same paragraph as the sentence that says it operates the works — which is the Iváncsa case and not the Giga Arctic one: the address is presented as the address OF the works, not as a filing address. What it is not is a coordinate, and this register does not geocode. The drawing is queued: a sweep centred on Flintbek against a dated extract is what turns the address into a position citing the feature it came from. Recorded here so the absence is a decision and nobody repeats the reasoning.

Status

  1. Announced
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction
  5. Operating2026-09-12
  • 2026-09-12OperatingTHE HISTORY STARTS HERE BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST EVENT ON THIS WORKS THIS REGISTER HAS SOURCED, and the date is the day the statement was read rather than the day production began. UniverCell's company page carries no dateline, on the page or in its markup, so the day it was read is an upper bound on when the company said it: 'jetzt betreiben wir eine erfolgreiche Gigafactory, die bereit ist, über 1,5 GWh hinaus zu skalieren'. The home page carries the same claim as 'die größte aktive Gigafactory Europas'. NOTHING EARLIER IS READ IN. The works is older than this sentence and this register has read no primary source for when it started, so it records what it verified.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