Turkey-headquartered lithium-ion and energy storage manufacturer Kontrolmatik Technologies will deploy a 1GWh energy storage project on home soil with financing provided by Chinese energy firm Harbin Electric.
The agreement with Harbin, announced last week, will see Kontrolmatik provide electrical and construction works while subsidiary Pomega will provide the energy storage system.
Harbin will finance the project which is being launched by another Kontrolmatik subsidiary, Progresiva, and is expected to come online in 2025. It will be built in Tekirdağ, near Istanbul, and was described as a “US$300 million” investment in the announcement.
It will be co-located with wind power project, the first gigawatt-scale project of its kind in Turkey, Kontrolmatik said.
On Kontrolmatik’s website, the company describes Progresiva as an investor in energy projects and an energy trader. It also claims Progresiva has the first and only standalone energy storage unit in Turkey and will commission a 250MW/1,000MWh facility in 2024 (it’s not clear if this is a separate project to the one agreed with Harbin Electric – both are in the northwest Marmara region).
A signing ceremony for the Harbin project, in the capital Ankara, was attended by the local ambassador for China, Liu Shaobin, and Turkey’s vice president Cevdet Yılmaz.
Turkey is emerging as a regional hub for lithium-ion gigafactory and energy storage system (ESS) manufacturing and is also expected to see a ramp-up in domestic energy storage installations too.
At the end of 2023, the government awarded pre-licenses to co-located energy storage projects totalling 25.6GW of power and also imposed a 30% tax on lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries imported which, Energy-Storage.news was told by a local industry source, would boost the local upstream market (Premium access).
Kontrolmatik has an LFP gigafactory in Ankara which began production in 2022, building on the company’s existing ESS assembly facilities. The gigafactory was launched through subsidiary Pomega, which is also building a battery cell and ESS production facility in South Carolina, set to be completed in July 2024 – Energy-Storage.news spoke to Pomega’s US VP business development Louis Caso about it in March last year (Premium access).
A new 1GWh lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery factory in Turkey serving the energy storage system (ESS) market will start production in Q4 2022, said Pomega Energy Storage Technologies, the company behind the project.
It is being built on/in an existing factory acquired in the Polatlı Organized Industrial Zone and construction started at the end of 2021. It will produce LiFePO4, aka LFP, battery cells, packs, modules and containerised energy storage systems (ESS) on a zero-waste principle.
It will generate 40% of its electricity with rooftop solar as well as use a waste heat recovery plant and rain collection and re-use systems.
Pomega''s parent company Kontrolmatic is an engineering company with a turnkey ESS solutions and has two existing factories operating in Ankara, making this move an example of vertical integration in the sector.
One of its factories in Kahzamankazan produces mobile energy solutions while a second, also in Polatlı, produces lithium-ion battery cells and ESS solutions. It says the new LFP factory will reduce dependence on foreign imports.
Istanbul-based Kontrolmatic set up its subsidiary Pomega in November last year. Kontrolmatic listed in 2020 and is mainly active in the development and integration of software, hardware and systems across a range of engineering solutions in energy, mining, industry and transportation.
One of its main competitors is Inovat, part of larger holding company Tetico, whose Ankara factory can assemble 200 energy storage system enclosures a year, though it has not yet announced plans to build any new battery factories.
The energy storage market in Turkey is set to grow substantially in the coming years as 2GW of wind and solar come online each year, according to a interview Energy-storage.news recently did with Can Tokcan, managing partner at Turkish energy storage EPC Inovat.
The country has only around 2MW of installed storage today – its first grid-connected battery was installed in April last year – but that is set to grow by a factor of a thousand to 2GW in the next 10 years. Especially in the face of ongoing global supply chain issues, domesticating its supply chain could help Turkey reach that.
Ford, SK On and local investor Koç Holding signed non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) last month that could see the launch of a new gigafactory development, although it would only be serving the electric vehicle (EV) market.
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Today, Ford, SK Innovation''s SK On, and Koç Holding announced the signing of a non-binding MOU to create one of Europe''s largest commercial vehicle battery production sites in Turkey.
The plan is to build a new battery gigafactory with an annual manufacturing capacity of about 30-45 GWh, near Ankara, Turkey.
The purpose of the joint venture is to supply batteries for Ford''s commercial vehicles, which are expected to be produced in high volume at Ford''s facilities in Turkey. Read more about Ford''s electrification plan for Europe here.
The battery chemistry will be SK On''s high-nickel NCM (nickel, cobalt, manganese) lithium-ion type.
Let''s recall that SK On is Ford''s main EV battery supplier right now, which provides the NCM9 batteries (that contain 90% nickel) for the Ford F-150 Lightning.
"Ford plans to have 240 GWh of global battery capacity by 2030 and a fair amount of it will come from SK On Ford will source 140 GWh needed in North America from "BlueOval SK", the joint venture it will form with SK On with plants in Tennessee and Kentucky, that has annual capacity of 129 GWh, and 11 GWh from SK On''s second plant in Georgia.
The remaining 100 GWh will be sourced from Europe and China with 30-45 GWh coming from the new plant of the joint venture between SK On and Koç, which amounts to in total more than 70% (170-185GWh) of Ford''s planned global capacity of 240 GWh."
Ford, SK Innovation''s SK On and Koç Holding battery jv in brief:
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