Greenpower Park calls on next government to accelerate UK battery production

• Greenpower Park, the new UK battery research and manufacturing site based in Coventry, has called on the future government to put more focus on the country’s domestic battery production, along with the associated supply chains.
• The UK will have voted a new government into place by the end of next week, with potential big changes for both the battery industry, and the wider emobility world.
• Greenpower Park also hopes that these steps will encourage foreign investment into the country.

Greenpower Park calls for the UK’s battery industry to be charged up

Among the more general investment into batteries called for, Greenpower Park has said that the UK ‘urgently’ needs a stable supply of battery cells, particularly when the country’s demand for these is only going to grow – it’s not just EVs and battery energy storage for the time being, but industries such as aviation which will be demanding more and more over the coming decades. 

Just one gigafactory, with an annual production capacity of 6GWh, is operational in the UK so far. That’s set to expand soon, with one gigafactory opening on the same site as Greenpower Park, and another facility opening, run by Tata in Somerset. According to The Faraday Institution, the UK will require 100GWh of batteries per year, by 2030,  which highlights the urgency placed by Greenpower Park on the next government.

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Greenpower Park’s Battery Strategy Expert, Richard Moore, commented:

“This is not the first time the UK has faced a resource crisis. We ramped up steel supply in the
1940s and 50s to build and replace military and civil equipment and can draw a parallel from
this with battery cell demands today. And if we act now, we can still resolve the crisis.

The UK has got to get its head out of the sand if it thinks it’s going to hit its battery cell
targets. The government and stakeholders have been slow to react to battery cell supply
demands. If the next government doesn’t take action, there will be a major risk to the
security of energy supply, which will leave the nation in a perilous state.”