Poland: LG Energy Solution Wrocław Gets EUR 90.8m EU Innovation Fund Grant for 46inEU Battery-Cell Project

Mechanism

LG Energy Solution Wrocław sp. z o.o. — the Polish manufacturing subsidiary of South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution — secured a EUR 90.8 million grant agreement approved by the European Commission on 5 November 2025 under the EU Innovation Fund's dedicated 2024 Battery call (IF24 Battery, a EUR 1 billion sub-envelope of the broader EUR 3.4 billion IF24 call). The project, branded "46inEU," expands the company's existing Wrocław site with production of Li-ion NCMA (nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminium) cylindrical "46-series" cells for the European EV market. CINEA's IF24 Battery project tracker lists 46inEU's status as "Grant signed," placing it alongside four other projects — Leclanché's WGF2G (Germany, EUR 74.2m), ACCEPT and AGATHE (France), and NOVO One (Sweden) — that collectively signed EUR 643 million in Innovation Fund grants, publicly confirmed by CINEA on 10 November 2025 (see also the sibling filing for the Leclanché/Germany grant in this register).

GTA's state-act record cites the European Commission's 5 November 2025 approval date and a EUR 90.8m / USD 104.4m grant figure, consistent with the IF24 Battery call's per-project funding scale.

Downstream implications

• Korean battery-maker access to EU non-dilutive capex: unlike the other

four IF24 Battery grantees (three EU-headquartered, one Swiss), LG Energy Solution is South Korean — the grant illustrates that Innovation Fund eligibility turns on EU manufacturing location, not company nationality, extending the subsidy race to non-EU battery majors with European production footprints.

• 46-series cylindrical cell reshoring: adds EU-based capacity for LG's

46-series format (used by Tesla and other automakers moving to large-format cylindrical cells), reducing reliance on Asian-manufactured 46-series imports.

• Cumulative IF24 Battery cohort: brings the publicly-confirmed IF24

Battery signings tracked in this register to two of five (46inEU, Leclanché/WGF2G), out of the EUR 643m total: EUR 90.8m (LG/Poland) + EUR 74.2m (Leclanché/Germany) = EUR 165m, with ACCEPT, AGATHE (France) and NOVO One (Sweden) — combined EUR ~478m — still unfiled individually.

Open questions

• Exact grant terms (matching-funds requirement, financial-close deadline)

for the 46inEU project — CINEA's public project tracker does not disclose these; Leclanché's parallel WGF2G grant required EUR 141.3m in matching funds by end-June 2026.

• Whether ACCEPT, AGATHE (France) and NOVO One (Sweden) — the remaining three

IF24 Battery cohort signings — warrant separate company-level filings.