Cygni commissions gigafactory in Hyd

Hyderabad: Independent energy story solutions player Cygni Energy, which was incubated at IIT Madras and is headquartered in Hyderabad, has commissioned the first phase of its automated battery energy storage system (BESS) gigafactory at the E-Mobility Valley at the Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMC) at Maheshwaram in Hyderabad.The first phase of the gigafactory has been set up at an investment of 100 crore and has a capacity to produce 4.8GWh of high-capacity battery packs for electric vehicles and energy storage systems capacity. The company plans to double this capacity by 2027 at an additional investment of 150 crore in the second phase. Cygni founder & CEO Venkat Rajaraman said, "In Phase II, we are scaling our gigafactory's capacity to 10.8 GWh in the existing facility itself. With a total investment of 250 crore across two phases, this will result in direct and indirect job creation of over 1,000 jobs in the next 24 months." He said as part of this expansion, the company will be adding three additional automated 2 GWh cell-to-pack manufacturing lines and container integration facilities to the existing lines to meet the rising demand for stationary and e-mobility storage applications. The 1.6 lakh sq ft phase-1 facility has come up on a five-acre parcel of land and the battery packs produced here will cater to large grid-scale stationary storage projects and independent power producers. The first phase of the gigafactory has been set up at an investment of 100 crore and can produce 4.8GWh of high-capacity battery packs