Lithium-ion battery maker start-up Kore Power has confirmed that its gigafactory will be built in Arizona, US.
The one million square foot manufacturing facility in Maricopa County will support up to 12GWh of battery cell production for electric vehicles and power grid applications.
The US company, founded in 2018, plans to start construction of the facility, dubbed KOREPlex, by the end of the year with the goal of beginning production in Q2 2023.
Arizona governor Doug Ducey said the plant would “position Arizona as an anchor in the global battery manufacturing supply chain”.
Kore’s new plant will add to its annual production capacity of 2GWh that is in the process of scaling up to 6GWh.
KOREPlex will operate with net-zero carbon emissions through strategic partnerships and solar-plus- and storage co-generation.
Lindsay Gorrill, Kore Power CEO, said: “We needed a location for our factory that had a track record of supporting energy storage, a growing clean transportation sector, and a workforce that could deliver American-made battery technology that the supply chain so desperately needs. Arizona hit a home run.”
The decision comes just under two years after Kore first announced it would build a gigafactory in the US.
BEST reported in February how Idaho-headquartered Kore had narrowed the site for its 12GWh plant down to either Arizona, Florida or Texas.
Kore said it picked the Arizona site as it offered proximity to complimentary industries such as e-mobility, solar, semiconductor, and utilities, workforce and logistics capacity, and a pro-business tax and regulatory environment.
