Tesla battery supplier CATL's Sichuan plant is industry's first zero-carbon facility

Sichuan Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited, or CATL-SC, a wholly owned subsidiary of CATL, last week certified its facility as the first zero-carbon factory in the new energy industry. The factory received the PAS 2060 certification on carbon neutrality earlier this month.

CATL, a battery supplier to Tesla and other electric vehicle makers, has worked with the Austin-based leader in electric vehicles since late 2019, officially announced during Q2 2020.

The plant was certified by SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company. Over the years, CATL-SC has been working to reduce carbon emissions and make its supply chain as sustainable as possible from production to product implementation. The facility uses a smart plant management system to enable data interconnection through automatic capture of plant system data and equipment operation data, the company said in a press release.

Systematic facility management platform helps to realize safe, reliable, high efficiency and low carbon operation of the plant. Appliance clusters with high energy consumption also have an optimization algorithm, which calculates the operating parameters of each sub-device with the lowest total energy consumption of the system.

CATL-SC general manager Zhu Yunfeng said the plant had started working towards zero-carbon emissions early in its construction. The factory uses innovation and other strategies to produce high quality components and products with a small amount of raw materials.

Within the operation of the plant, CATL-SC has used advanced logistics equipment and other sustainable factory transportation methods to reduce emissions. These include driverless logistics vehicles and electric forklifts, which enable zero-carbon operations between supplier factories, raw material warehouses, processing factories, finished product warehouses and customers’ factories, CATL said. The company encourages workers to use electric vehicles or shared mobility to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in all aspects of life and production.

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The facility’s location also contributes to its ability to be carbon-neutral. Three Rivers, Jinsha River, minjiang river, And the Yangtze River crosses the city of Yibin, where the plant is located, creating an ideal natural environment with abundant water resources. This enables the plant to reduce carbon emissions by 400,000 tonnes every year. More than 80% of the plant’s energy consumption comes from hydropower.

“The certification marks an important milestone towards CATL’s carbon neutrality goals,” CATL said in a statement. “As the world’s first zero-carbon battery plant, CATL’s Sichuan plant provides an example of how battery production can be carbon neutral and also introduces a new solution to the market featuring electrification + zero carbon Is.”

CATL plans to build a new battery facility in North America worth $5 billion.

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Tesla battery supplier CATL’s Sichuan plant is industry’s first zero-carbon facility