Indonesia breaks ground for $6b battery integration project

Its first phase will have nearly 7 MWh of capacity.

Indonesia is set to commence the construction of a $6b battery integration project.

In a statement, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited said its subsidiary Guangdong Brunp Recycling Technology Co., Ltd, through Ningbo Contemporary Brunp Lygend Co., Ltd., along with its partners, broke ground on the Indonesia Battery Integration Project in Karawang, Indonesia's West Java Province.

Spanning over 2,000 hectares, the project covers the full battery value chain including nickel mining and processing, battery materials and battery recycling at the FHT Industrial Park of East Halmahera, North Maluku Province, and battery manufacturing in  Artha Industrial Hill (AIH) and KNIC  of Karawang, West Java Province.

The battery plant in Karawang will deliver an annual capacity of 6.9 gigawatt hours in the first phase.

The other key component of the project is the establishment of Indonesia's first renewable energy circular system, with nickel mining and processing, battery materials, and battery recycling operations deployed at the FHT Industrial Park.

Once fully operational, the facility is expected to produce 142,000 tonnes of nickel and 30,000 tonnes of cathode materials annually, along with the capacity to process around 20,000 tonnes of recycled batteries.