e got the battery funding, which we describe a little bit on the next slide. And of course we have huge growth opportunities, which we also fuel in like Graphite anode materials for lithium-ion batteries for the immobility, but also the gas diffusion layers for the fuel cell business.
Okay, next slide, please. And this slide I will explain a little bit deeper. And if you look at the picture on the right-hand side, what you can see here? This is graphite powder. And it's a very special graphite powder. We call it graphite anode material.
And, I think, you will followed the press. There are several battery projects for electron mobility announced in Europe. In total, there are 25 announcements. And last week on the Power Day of Volkswagen first one in announced alone in Europe six new battery plans for EV. And in total, they announced 600 to 700 gigawatts of capacity until 2030. And you need in each battery, you have an anode and a cathode which is plus and minus in the battery. And for the anode, you need graphite in those materials.
It's impossible to build a battery without this powder, which you see on the right hand side. In total, if the 60 to 700 gigawatts in Europe materialize, you need 300,000 to 400,000 tons of this material. And we own two plants, one in Poland and one in shed where we can start right now with the production of this material. And there's almost no competition. Of course, there are some competitors which announced palpitation projects, but there is no real backward integration for this whole industry.
And now, I come to the project itself. So the European Union wants to have a standalone set up for the EV batteries in Europe. This means battery production and also the backwards integration. And they started in IPCEI project which means Important Project of Common European Interest. That means the European Union is supporting and fully integrated value chain for batteries. And this includes, graphite anode material.
And we SGL was selected to get a €43 million funding of this IPCEI grant to set up a production chain or improve R&D and also our knowledge on recycling for exactly this powder, which you see on this slide.
Until 2028, we receive this €43 millions. This sits pretty well, because we opened one and a half years ago in making our own battery lab and our knowledge about EV batteries is already pretty deep. And I have to say to you now later on we show you the midterm planning, everything which I eluded in the last five minutes is not included in our midterm planning. So this is an upside, not including into figures. You will see later on.
And, I hand back to Thomas.
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