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Verkor Gigafactory Bourbourg

Verkor · Bourbourg · FR · Batteries and solar · supply security

Operating16 GWh per year

Verkor Gigafactory Bourbourg is Verkor's batteries and solar project at Bourbourg, France.

Why it matters

It is running.

Where Verkor Gigafactory Bourbourg is

Verkor Gigafactory Bourbourg is at Bourbourg gigafactory. Also in frame: 3 sites using the same technology.

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

50.9665° N 2.1935° EBourbourg gigafactory

as of 2025-12-11

Status

  1. Announced
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction
  5. Operating2025-12-11
  • 2025-12-11OperatingOpened 11 December 2025 at 16 GWh, aiming at 50 GWh by 2030. Verkor stated the site 'is now manufacturing its own cells', with commercialisation of the first batteries planned for 2026.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

  • €76 mEU Innovation Fundsignedets:FND-03Awarded under the Innovation Fund as it stands today (Art. 10a(8) of Directive 2003/87/EC). The register carries the Fund through the ETS revision's Art. 10cb, which re-establishes it, so ets:FND-03 is the register's handle on the programme rather than the provision this award was made under.“AMOUNT OF INNOVATION FUND GRANT EUR 76,282,817”sourcesource

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