The European Commission has selected 12 projects under the manufacturing of clean technologies category of its 2025 Innovation Fund call, with the projects collectively seeking almost €895 million in grants. The portfolio includes new solar cell and module factories, battery gigafactories, battery component production, electrolyzer technologies and heat pump manufacturing.
Individual grant amounts have not yet been publicly finalized and will be determined during grant agreement negotiations with the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA).
Battery projects
PowerCo Battery Spain plans to develop a LFP battery cell gigafactory for electric vehicles in Sagunto, Valencia, with annual capacity of up to 27 GWh. The modular plant is designed around two blocks and eight production lines powered by renewable electricity, and will manufacture prismatic cells. Sagunto is the site of PowerCo’s second gigafactory, which is planned to reach up to 40 GWh of annual capacity, while the project selected for Innovation Fund support covers 27 GWh.
LG Energy Solution Wroclaw’s ArisEU project will establish an LFP battery cell production line for electric vehicles in Poland, with annual capacity of 9 GWh. The facility will use advanced stacking processes, proprietary connection systems and accelerated cell formation technologies.
Robert Bosch’s FLOW4EVE project, in Hungary and Romania, will industrialize a modular heat pump integrated into the battery thermal management system of electric vehicles. It aims to increase winter driving range by up to 20%, and its architecture is designed to support bidirectional storage applications, including vehicle-to-home and vehicle-to-grid systems.
Other technologies
In solar, Holosolis’ SOLAR4EU project plans a 5 GW integrated n-type TOPCon cell and module factory in Hambach, France, while Umicore’s ReGAIN Pilot in Belgium will develop a pilot line for reusable germanium sheets for high-performance solar cells.
Hydrogen projects selected under the fund’s calls include reversible solid oxide cell stack manufacturing by SolydEra in Italy, where annual capacity is expected to increase from 8 MW to 50 MW in fuel cell configuration, equivalent to 150 MW in electrolysis configuration, and Reverion’s 8 MWe fuel cell and 24 MWe electrolysis plant in Lingen, Germany, which will switch between modes in response to electricity market signals. RWE’s HyScore project will develop a 20 MW renewable hydrogen demonstration plant in Germany.
Heat pump manufacturing projects include CAADEX in Hungary, Orbital Systems in Sweden and Additive Drives in Germany, which will make rare-earth-free induction motors for heat pumps.
From pv magazine España
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