They will “be others”, not Volkswagen’s. Estremadura will host the second Spanish battery gigafactory for electric carsIt will occupy 200 hectares of Expacio Navalmoral industrial estate in Navalmoral de la Mata and is a facility supported by Acciona and Asian group Envision. The organizers will announce the project in the next few hours, but as El Periódico de Extremadura confirms, there’s no room for the first phase. investment 800 million euro and thousand job creation directly.
Perte de Energies Renewables will have 10 GW of scalable capacity, which, with the help of Hydrogen Renewables and Storage, can be increased to 30 in successive stages (10 GW each), which could reach 3,000 jobs and an investment of 2,000 million. . The project is linked to the lithium reserves of the province of Cáceres for use and exploitation. optimization of the entire production chainfrom the extraction and processing of ore to the manufacture of battery cells and cathodes for various industries.
Extremadura Junta spokesman Juan Antonio González, who expects Acciona and Envision to announce the project in the next few hours, wanted to be “cautious” in his assessment, although he said it would “completely change” the region. according to “destiny in the coming years” data and investments managed by the Manager. “If it is true, our lives will be news.“, drew attention at the press conference held after the Board of Directors.
González said that the Director’s Extremadura was a attractive region for investors and has now ensured that it fulfills “all conditions” for future major projects. We have the largest industrial estate owned by the Board, and issues arising from their location, training processes and industrial permits are handled together.”
“Revolutionary in Spain”
That was on April 7, when José Manuel Entrecanales, chairman of Grupo Acciona, announced at the shareholders’ general meeting that he was meeting with one of the world’s leading energy and technology companies to carry out a project for the production of batteries and lithium mining in America. Spain. Entrecanales later did not name the Asian company or give details of the project, only pointing out that the talks are at an advanced stage and calling it “revolutionary in Spain”.