Closed and ready for battery factory

Kristiansand Energipark is under zoning and is located at Støleheia, 18 km north of Kristiansand city center. In the zoning regulation, the area is earmarked for the establishment of energy processing businesses. In the community part of the municipal plan, it has been decided that sufficient industrial areas will be developed based on the use of surplus power. This development area is located in the middle of the country's largest power hub. Statnett's grid station, Kristiansand substation, is located here, with central lines that are connected to the continent's power supply via undersea cables.

Agder Energi is the region's major electricity producer, generating five percent of the country's total electricity production, around 8 TWh in a normal year. This contributes to a good power surplus in this supply area.

Secure power supply
The battery factory will receive its power supply from a supply point with ample available power from Statnett's main grid. Good availability, combined with robust infrastructure on the existing grid up to the new or upgraded transformer station, results in favorable connection costs. As a result of the establishment of the new industrial area, and signals of increased power demand, Statnett is already in the process of preparing a KVU
on further expansion of the supply capacity in the area. This means that necessary measures in the grid and substation can be initiated more quickly than otherwise. This area has a large power surplus, which means significantly lower annual grid rental costs compared with other connection points.

Regulation and engineering
Kristiansand municipality is in the process of an area regulation that provides more than 2000 daa expansion of the existing industrial area. The area regulation is expected to be completed at the turn of the year 2021/22. Preliminary clarifications in meetings with the higher authorities and DOK analyses indicate that there are no special considerations that cannot be accommodated.

A pipeline is being planned from Otra that will provide an abundant and stable supply of cooling water to the industrial area. The pipeline, which is currently being designed, will be dimensioned for 12,000 cubic meters per day. An alternative to discharging cooling water directly into Otra is to connect the discharge to the Otra Intermunicipal Wastewater Pipeline, which follows the river from Vennesla and discharges into the sea, in Byfjorden. Leachate from Avfall Sør's waste disposal site (neighboring plot) is fed into this pipeline. The pipeline has more than sufficient capacity, and is owned by Kristiansand and Vennesla municipalities.

Kristiansand Energy Park has neighbors such as the data storage company Bulk Infrastructure, and the inter-municipal recycling plant Avfall Sør. The planned energy park is freely located at a good distance from the nearest buildings.

Centrally located
Kristiansand Energy Park is located close to highway 9, with a county road leading to the site boundary. This provides good connections to Kristiansand city center, port and railway for transportation of people, raw materials and finished products. The distance to the city center and the port is 18 km, while the freight terminal at Langemyr is 13 km away. Kristiansand Airport is 28 kilometers away. We believe that the Kristiansand Energy Park area meets the requirements and needs of the "Jointbattery-initative".