Recharge Industries™, a Scale Facilitation® portfolio company,
has engaged Accenture (NYSE: ACN) as its engineering provider to
move forward on building one of the world’s largest gigafactories
in Australia.
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Recharge Industries™ is building a
gigafactory in Geelong, Australia, with help from Accenture,
expected to generate up to 30 gigawatt hours of storage capacity. ©
Recharge Industries™ 2023
At full capacity, the large-scale lithium-ion battery cell
production facility in Geelong, Victoria, will generate up to 30
gigawatt hours (GWh) of storage capacity per year for electric
vehicles and stationary energy storage markets. Construction will
begin in the second half of 2023, with the goal of producing
batteries equal to 2 GWh annually in the second half of 2024 and 6
GWh by 2026. As operations expand to full capacity, the factory
will employ an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 workers directly.
Recharge Industries™ and Accenture are now moving the project
into the detailed engineering phase, which will lay the foundation
for the facility’s construction. The two companies have signed a
framework contract covering the following Accenture consulting and
engineering capabilities: advisory on the facility layout,
including utility planning and set-up of the production lines;
assistance in procuring and shipping the required equipment;
conduction of final tests of all line equipment; ongoing process
and product engineering support to improve battery production.
Recharge Industries™ has already secured the production
equipment for the first 2 GWh production line with binding off-take
contracts and secured funding. The equipment is scheduled to arrive
in Australia in late May 2023.
The two companies will collaborate closely with Charge CCCV
(C4V), a technology partner of Recharge Industries™, to support the
ambitious timing. C4V provides proven Intellectual Property (IP), a
qualified supply chain, blueprints and technology concepts for
battery manufacturing, which accelerate planning, engineering, and
construction. Accenture will work closely with Recharge Industries™
to adapt C4V’s IP to the conditions and requirements of the Geelong
manufacturing plant.
Rob Fitzpatrick, CEO of Recharge Industries™, explained:
“Establishing a sovereign manufacturing capability to produce
state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery cells is critical to
Australia’s renewable energy economy – meeting national demand,
generating export income and securing supply chains. Our factory,
which we are building with the assistance of Accenture’s
engineering and capital projects expertise and underpinned by C4V’s
IP and battery technology, will create thousands of jobs and
attract large-scale investment from key players in Australia, the
Indo-Pacific region, and other parts of the world.”
Soeren Schrader, a managing director at Accenture’s digital
engineering and manufacturing service, Industry X, said:
“Companies, economies and nations must speed their energy
transition, a task hampered by ongoing disruptions in the global
supply chains. Recharge Industries™ advanced manufacturing facility
in Geelong will go a long way in helping the Australian industry
tackle these challenges. This project is a testament to our deep
engineering and industry expertise.”
Accenture will collaborate closely with world-leading
engineering, procurement, and construction management firms to be
formally announced in the coming weeks, following a rigorous global
tender process led by Phil King, Global Head of Real Estate and
Development at Scale Facilitation®.
About Recharge Industries™ Generating our green future,
Recharge Industries™ is establishing a large-scale lithium-ion
battery cell production and research capability in Australia. Using
world leading artificial intelligence (AI) and multinational
research partnerships, we are finding ways to make batteries
better, safer, and longer lasting. We are powering the transition
to a low emissions future by creating advanced battery cell
manufacturing capabilities onshore.
For more information on Recharge Industries™, please visit
www.rechargeindustries.com.
About Scale Facilitation® With its Global Headquarters in
Manhattan and its Global Innovation Center in Geelong, Australia,
Scale Facilitation® is working bilaterally to bring together
research, advanced manufacturing, capital, supply chains and
talent.
Scale Facilitation® is an investment firm with a novel approach
de-risking projects by empowering innovators to maintain focus on
their craft and facilitating the many critical services and
capabilities required to deliver large-scale advanced manufacturing
and innovation projects. Scale Facilitation® removes the many
barriers to commercialization for innovators by giving access to
the right strategic partners and collaborators who will adopt and
scale their inventions.
For more information on Scale Facilitation®, please visit
www.scalefacilitation.com.
About Accenture Accenture is a leading global
professional services company that helps the world’s leading
businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital
core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and
enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and
scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000
people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at
the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in
helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We
combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry
experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We
are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad
range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy &
Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song.
These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and
commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients
succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our
success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other,
our shareholders, partners, and communities. Visit us at
www.accenture.com.
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Jens Derksen Accenture Industry X +49 175 5716393
jens.derksen@accenture.com
Kate Maher Accenture Australia +61 405 778 205
kathryn.a.maher@accenture.com
Marie T. Oates (US) Recharge Industries™ Scale Facilitation® +1
617 290 7795 marie.oates@scalefacilitation.com
Eva Marchingo (AUS) Recharge Industries™ Scale Facilitation®
eva.marchingo@saclefacilitation.com
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