On April 9th, the Tesla Energy Storage Super Factory project signing ceremony was held in Shanghai, marking the company’s first energy storage super factory project outside the United States.
The Tesla Energy Storage Super Factory will plan to produce Tesla’s large-scale commercial energy storage batteries (Megapack). In the initial phase, the planned annual production of commercial energy storage batteries can reach 10,000 units, with an energy storage capacity of nearly 40GWh. The product range will cover the global market. The Tesla Energy Storage Super Factory project is scheduled to start construction in the third quarter of 2023 and be put into operation in the second quarter of 2024. It is reported that each Megapack weighs about 23,000 kg, with the same size as a shipping container, and can store more than 3 MWh of energy to meet the electricity needs of 3,600 households in one hour.
In 2012, Tesla began research on energy storage devices and launched the lithium-ion integrated home energy storage system Powerwall in 2015, which has been installed in more than 250,000 households worldwide. Megapack integrates inverters, battery modules, thermal management systems, and high-level integration of power and electronic components. It has only one-tenth of the number of components compared to similar products, and reduces the occupied space by 40%.
The Tesla Energy Storage Super Factory project is scheduled to start construction in the third quarter of 2023 and be put into operation in the second quarter of 2024. Currently, Tesla has seven major factories worldwide, including five super factories, the Fremont factory in California, and the Megafactory battery factory.
According to incomplete statistics from the CNESA Global Energy Storage Database, in 2022, the newly added installed capacity of new energy storage projects in China reached 6.9 GW/15.3 GWh, surpassing the cumulative installed capacity of 5.7 GW/11.2 GWh in the past decade, making China the world’s number one. The plan is to achieve the transformation of new energy storage from the initial commercialization to large-scale development by 2025, with an installed capacity of more than 30 GW.
