Plans for a 3,000-job battery gigafactory in Northumberland are set to become a reality after multimillion-pound Government funding helped attract £1.7bn from private investors.
Work will start within the next two months on the Britishvolt factory at Cambois, turning the former coal yards of the old Blyth Power Station into a massive factory building batteries for electric cars.
As well as the 3,000 jobs that are hoped will be created directly on the site, up to 5,000 more jobs could be created in the plant’s supply chain.
