
Aksa Energy, is a publicly traded energy company which was incorporated in 1997 and generates electricity. The main shareholder of Aksa Energy is Kazancı Holding. Cemil Kazancı is the Board Chairman and CEO of the Company. Aksa Energy, having 13 power plant investments in 8 countries, carries out all power plant installation processes from project designing to procurement, construction and installation within its own organization. Aksa Energy has constructed and oper. [pdf]
Aksa Energy's current global projects include a 430MW natural gas power plant in Talimarjan, Uzbekistan, a 240MW heat and power plant in Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan, a 350MW natural gas power plant in Kumasi, Ghana, and a 255MW natural gas power plant in Saint Louis, Senegal.
In the beginning of 2021, Aksa Energy also signed a 30-year concession agreement regarding the operating rights of a natural gas power plant with an installed capacity of 50 MW in the Republic of Congo. With its geographical diversity strategy, Aksa Energy continues its investments in all geographies that need energy abroad.
Following its successful investments in Africa, Aksa Energy entered Asia with Uzbekistan investment. Aksa Energy continues to diversify its portfolio geographically with Tashkent and Bukhara natural gas combined cycle power plants which will have a total installed capacity of 740 MW.
In 2018, Aksa Energy signed a power purchase agreement with Societe Jiro Sy Rano Malagasy (Jirama) for the rehabilitation and operation of a 24 MW power plant located next to Madagascar Heavy Fuel Oil Power Plant. According to the agreement, electricity generated by the power plant is being sold to Jirama via guaranteed sales in US dollars.
In 2015, Aksa Energy signed a power purchase agreement with the government of the Republic of Ghana for the guaranteed sale of electricity for a duration of 6.5 years with a tariff based on US dollars.
On 21 January 2021, Aksa Enerji Üretim A.Ş.’s 100% subsidiary Aksa Energy Company Congo has signed a concession agreement with Republic of Congo about obtaining operating rights of a 50 MW natural gas power plant in the city of Pointe-Noire. Natural gas is expected to be supplied from Congo’s local gas reserves.

Lithium-ion battery pack price dropped to 115 U.S. dollars per kilowatt-hour in 2024, down from over 144 dollars per kilowatt-hour a year earlier.. Lithium-ion battery pack price dropped to 115 U.S. dollars per kilowatt-hour in 2024, down from over 144 dollars per kilowatt-hour a year earlier.. According to a recent analysis, the average price of lithium-ion battery packs for electric vehicles fell by 20 per cent to USD 115 per kilowatt hour in 2024 - the sharpest price drop since 2017. [pdf]
The finance group revised its global battery demand growth projection to 29% for 2024, down from the previous estimate of 35%, with a 31% growth expected in 2023. Goldman also forecasts a 40% reduction in battery pack prices over 2023 and 2024, followed by a continued decline to reach a total 50% reduction by 2025-2026.
In 2023, the supply of cobalt and nickel exceeded demand by 6.5% and 8%, and supply of lithium by over 10%, thereby bringing down critical mineral prices and battery costs. While low critical mineral prices help bring battery costs down, they also imply lower cash flows and narrower margins for mining companies.
LFP production and adoption is primarily located in China, where two-thirds of EV sales used this chemistry in 2023. The share of LFP batteries in EV sales in Europe and the United States remains below 10%, with high-nickel chemistries still most common in these markets.
LFP is the most prevalent chemistry in the Chinese electric car market, while NMC batteries are more common in the European and American electric car markets. China’s current leading role in battery production, however, comes at the cost of high levels of overcapacity.
In contrast, LFP batteries have a lower residual value after recycling, which could put pressure on recycling business models. Nonetheless, regulations can fill this gap by either incentivising or mandating the recycling of end-of-life batteries regardless of their residual value.
In 2023, the global EV fleet consumed about 130 TWh of electricity – roughly the same as Norway’s total electricity demand in the same year. Zooming out to the global scale, EVs accounted for about 0.5% of the world’s total final electricity consumption in 2023, and around 1% in China and Europe.

The increase in battery demand drives the demand for critical materials. In 2022, lithium demand exceeded supply (as in 2021) despite the 180% increase in production since 2017. In 2022, about 60% of lithium, 30% of cobalt and 10% of nickel demand was for EV. . In 2022, lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) remained the dominant battery chemistry with a market share of 60%, followed by lithium iron phosphate (LFP) with a share of just. . With regards to anodes, a number of chemistry changes have the potential to improve energy density (watt-hour per kilogram, or Wh/kg). For example, silicon can be used to replace all or some of the graphite in the anode in order to make it lighter and thus increase. [pdf]
In February 2020, your reporter published the following headline: In a surprise move, China’s top battery manufacturer CATL will supply Tesla with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for Model 3 production at its newly built $2 billion factory outside Shanghai.
This trend is driven mainly by the preferences of Chinese OEMs. Around 95% of the LFP batteries for electric LDVs went into vehicles produced in China, and BYD alone represents 50% of demand. Tesla accounted for 15%, and the share of LFP batteries used by Tesla increased from 20% in 2021 to 30% in 2022.
Germany leads the production of EVs in Europe and accounted for nearly 50% of European EV production in 2023, followed by France and Spain (with just under 10% each). Battery production in China is more integrated than in the United States or Europe, given China’s leading role in upstream stages of the supply chain.
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