Battery energy storage system (BESS) developer Giga Storage has acquired a 350MW/1,400MWh BESS development in Germany, marking an expansion into the broader European energy storage market.
The new German BESS project, named Giga Albatross, will be strategically located near Neuenkirchen in Lower Saxony. This marks Giga Storage’s first expansion beyond Belgium and the Netherlands into Germany’s growing energy storage sector.
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Positioned near Germany’s North Sea coast, which has around 9.2GW of installed offshore wind generation capacity, the BESS facility continues the company’s tradition of animal-inspired project names.
The German BESS will operate between two major high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power lines – A-Nord to the west and SuedLink to the east – enhancing energy transmission from northern Germany to the industrial south.
Germany’s growing BESS market attracts investment
Industry experts consider Germany one of Europe’s most attractive markets for BESS development. The country’s robust power market, connected to nine neighbouring countries, combined with its renewable energy transition and planned coal phase-out by 2038, creates ideal conditions for BESS deployment.
Giga Storage confirmed that its German BESS project will provide critical grid services in “one of Germany’s most important power corridors” and support renewable energy integration, frequency regulation, and local congestion management in the German electricity system.
Beyond this new German acquisition, Giga Storage’s existing portfolio includes the Netherlands-based BESS projects Giga Rhino (7.5MWh) and Giga Buffalo (48MWh).
The company is also developing several larger BESS projects, including Giga Leopard (1,200MWh), Giga Giraffe, Giga Lion, Giga Blue Marlin, and Belgium’s Giga Green Turtle – the company’s largest at 700MW/2,800MWh.
Kevin Dijkers, CEO of Giga Storage, credited InfraVia Capital Partners, which acquired the company in May 2024, for enabling the German BESS expansion.
“Our ambition is to develop and operate multiple gigawatts of energy storage capacity across Europe in the coming years,” Dijkers stated.
“With InfraVia’s backing and our growing project pipeline, we’re moving fast to deliver on that goal—supporting both energy security and decarbonisation across key European markets, including Germany.”
Germany’s BESS market shows strong growth
The German BESS sector has seen significant recent activity. One of Germany’s largest BESS installations, a 103.5MW/238MWh battery asset in Bollingstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, was recently brought online by owner-operator Eco Stor.
Additionally, TotalEnergies made a final investment decision earlier this year to construct six more BESS projects throughout Germany.
In an exclusive article for Energy-Storage.news Premium last year, Giga Storage’s chief commercial officer, Lars Rupert, revealed the organisation is targeting 5GW of energy storage by 2030.
The growing importance of Germany’s BESS market was highlighted at the inaugural Energy Storage Summit Germany 2025, hosted by our publisher Solar Media and co-located with parent company Informa’s The Battery Show Europe 2025 in Stuttgart last month (3-5 June).
Key discussions centred on regulatory challenges specific to Germany’s BESS deployment, the Capacity Market (CM), and structures for tolling and offtakers in the German energy storage ecosystem.
