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ricardobeat • yesterday at 9:13 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

In numbers (cell production capacity, 2025):

    [1] USA         70 GWh
    [2] China     1755 GWh
    [3] Europe     252 GWh
That's excluding small battery production for electronics etc.

[1] https://reasonstobecheerful.world/us-grid-battery-storage/

[2] https://english.news18a.com/news/english_224842.html

[3] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/europes-swelling-wav...

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jweir • yesterday at 10:46 PM

According to projections this year will hit 300 GWh in the US

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-manufactur...

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paulmist • yesterday at 9:20 PM

According to IEA[1] most capacity in Europe is from South Korean companies.

[1] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/share-of-manu...

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causal • yesterday at 9:18 PM

Okay then makes me wonder if this recent trend is just one particularly large manufacturer ramping up production? Tesla?

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vinajuliette • yesterday at 11:39 PM

The US is the bronze medalist meme

om8 • yesterday at 11:26 PM

Cool way to think about GWh/year:

  1 GWh/year = (10 ** 9) / 24 / 365.25 / (10 ** 6) MW = 0.11 MW

  70 GWh/year = 8 MW
  1755 GWh/year = 200 MW
  252 GWh/year = 29 MW
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bogwog • yesterday at 9:37 PM

Source?