BritishVolt picks site of Blyth Power Station for UK's first 'gigafactory'

Cecilia Keating
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£2.6bn scheme represents largest industrial investment England’s North East in more than three decades and will generate 8,000 local jobs, BritishVolt said.

The site of an old coal-fired power station on the Northumberland coast has been picked as the location for the UK's first 'gigafactory', a plant expected to produce hundreds of thousands of batteries...

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