Following United Nations summit, Governor Newsom brings California’s climate work to Poland, launches new partnership

The company has delivered more than 20,000 battery systems, which power more than 3,000 electric buses. In 2024, it opened GigafactoryX, a 16,300-square-meter plant that produces 1.2 gigawatt-hours of batteries a year, with plans to more than triple that by 2027.

At Impact, the Governor met with Katarzyna Pindral, vice president and chief financial officer; Bartek Kras, vice president and chief technology officer; and board member Jacek Leonkiewicz.

“Poland is a really remarkable story: what they’ve been able to accomplish in the last few decades,” said Governor Gavin Newsom. “It feels like California. This place is all about entrepreneurial innovation, and it’s about imagination, the secret sauce. You have those examples right here having a huge impact on the global marketplace with batteries, which is where the world is going.”

California shares those priorities. The state’s battery storage fleet has grown from less than 700 megawatts in 2019 to about 23,000 megawatts today, and California is a major market for electric transit buses and zero-emission trucks. 

Today, California also leads the nation in critical minerals production and is home to Lithium Valley in the Salton Sea region, one of the world’s largest known lithium reserves.

Governor Newsom urged leaders to embrace the clean energy transition instead of delaying it:

 “The question is, will politicians get out of the way, or will they continue to delay it?,” he said. “So many special interests are holding us back in the 19th and 20th centuries, and they want to put our work in reverse and hold the progress in the green energy space around the globe. The smart move is embracing the future, not turning your back on the planet.”

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