Authorities of Kaliningrad have allowed Rosatom to build a large factory for the production of lithium-ion rechargeable battery cells and ready-made energy storage systems on the site of the Baltic NPP. This nuclear power plant was started to build back in 2010, but the project was frozen just four years later. Now, after 10 years, life will boil again at the site of the Baltic NPP, but instead of nuclear technologies, advanced electrical ones come.
It is expected that the construction of the gigafactory will cost 51 billion rubles, and the power of the enterprise will be 4 GW·h per year (at least this is what Rosatom announced in 2021).
In Kaliningrad, battery cells will be produced using South Korean technology – this year, the company Renera, which is part of Rosatom's fuel division, absorbed the South Korean energy storage manufacturer Enertech, which worked even with BMW. Traction batteries of Russian production are supposed to be used for the production of urban electric transport (electric buses) and electric vehicles (including the Atom car, the serial production of which is promised to be launched in 2025).