According to foreign media reports, on August 16, battery startup Morrow opened the country’s first battery production base in southern Norway.
The company plans to deliver the first batch of batteries before the end of this year and gradually increase production.
, Battery production is a new industry that Norway hopes to enter, which hopes to benefit from green energy and proximity to European customers who are keen to source batteries from China.
, Morrow was established in 2020 and will initially use existing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) technology.
Its plant in Arendal, southern Norway, is Europe’s first gigawatt (GWh) lithium iron phosphate plant.
Photo source: Morrow,Morrow CEO Lars Christian Bacher told the media: “It’s important that we start selling batteries near the end of the year.
“, Morrow has reached a seven-year 5.
5 GWh delivery agreement with Nordic Batteries.
It is reported that Nordic Batteries provides customers with tailored energy storage solutions.
, Bacher added that the first few months of opening the new factory will be used to adjust processes, improve quality and achieve stable battery production.
He said: “I would rather have problems during the start-up process than when production is stabilized two years later.
“, Morrow’s cell has a capacity of 340Wh and a weight of 2 kilograms.
The factory’s annual production capacity is 1 GWh, equivalent to approximately 3 million cells.
Andreas Maier, the company’s chief operating officer, said that was enough to power 20,000 small electric vehicles, which typically have a battery capacity of 50 kWh.
But Bacher said the company has not yet signed off-take agreements with the carmaker because initial production is too small.
“It will take years for us to become qualified to sell batteries to car companies,” he said.
Despite this, Morrow still plans to gradually expand production scale and build three more factories at the Arendal base by 2029, each with an annual production capacity of 14 GWh.
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