IPP Greenvolt has put a 99.8MW/288.6MWh BESS into commercial operation in Hungary, the largest in the country, while pipelines and projects have been progressed in Italy, France, Netherlands, Belgium and Spain.
The other headlines are:
- Dispatch has energised a 45MW/90MWh project in Netherlands
- Centrica Energy will optimise Aukera’s 340MWh BESS in Belgium
- EdgeMode has agreed to acquire 51% of Spanish developer Ibersun
- FRV is targeting 2.9GW/11 GWh of BESS developments in Italy by 2029
- French BESS platform Eclipse has raised a €20 million Series A
Greenvolt turns on 288MWh Hungary BESS
Greenvolt Power has inaugurated a battery energy storage system (BESS) in Hungary with 99.8MW/288.6MWh of capacity.
The project in Buj, northeastern Hungary, will help balance the system as more renewables come online.
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It replaces a 40MW/80MWh project from Met Group, inaugurated in mid-2025, as the largest in the country.
Greenvolt is also active with large-scale projects in Poland, Italy and Portugal, generally targeting markets where there are publicly-available subsidies or contracted revenue schemes.
The Buj project has a ten-year contract from the government under a cap-and-floor subsidy scheme. Greenvolt secured financing for it in January this year.
An image provided of the project shows that the BESS units were provided by BYD. Greenvolt also used BYD for its Polish projects.
An energy and M&A lawyer at law firm Kapolyi recently wrote a guest blog about how the energy storage market in Hungary is evolving.
Dispatch energises 45MW/90MWh project in Netherlands
Storage IPP Dispatch has completed energisation of its 45MW/90MWh Project Amethyst in Dordrecht, Netherlands, with full commercial operations to commence shortly. Project partners included grid operator Stedin, and EPC firm Equans.
The BESS was provided by system integrator Fluence while utility Eneco will optimise the project, which Dispatch started building in late 2024.
Centrica Energy to optimise Aukera’s 340MWh BESS in Belgium
In Belgium, the energy trading and logistics arm of UK-based utility Centrica Group will optimise a project on which construction was recently launched by owner Aukera.
Centrica Energy will trade the 70MW/340MWh Project Volt BESS in La Louvière under a partial fixed-price structure, giving Aukera some long-term revenue certainty.
The firm is also optimising a large Belgian project for owner Renner, while Centrica’s other subsidiary Centrica Business Solutions is deploying own-operate projects in Belgium and Sweden, also optimised by Centrica Energy.
AI data centre firm EdgeMode to buy 51% of Spanish developer, eyes GWh of BESS
Global energy and AI data center infrastructure company EdgeMode, Inc has agreed to acquire 51% of developer Ibersun Generación in order to launch a large-scale BESS platform in Spain, it said this week (9 June).
The agreement is non-binding and subject to due diligence. EdgeMode said the joint venture addresses structural needs in Spain, where there is high solar penetration but inadequate energy storage.
The acquisition will instantly incorporate 52 MW of grid-connected BESS projects into EdgeMode’s near-term development pipeline, all set to hit ready-to-build (RTB) status by the end of 2026. There is also a 1.9GW pipeline of strategically secured land plots, chosen for proximity to local substations. In total, the pipeline is 2.9GWh of capacity with the first projects online in the next 18 months.
Note that just this morning we published a guest blog from the chairman of another developer, Capflex Energía’Ignacio López Martín, who discussed the difference between headline pipeline figures and real, tangible projects in Spain.
FRV targets the development of 11GWh of BESS in Italy by 2029
On a similar subject of pipelines, developer FRV has revealed that is aiming to develop a total of 2.9GW/11GWh of BESS in Italy. It aims to reach RTB on them between 2026-2029 and they are spread throughout the whole country, shown in this map from a corporate video on the right.
Italy has long been regarded as one of Europe’s most exciting energy storage markets but had been on hold until the conclusion of its first MACSE auction, which happened in September.
The relatively novel scheme provides long-term revenues to BESS in exchange for providing their balancing capacity in a dedicated solar load shifting market, run by TSO Terna.
French BESS platform Eclipse raises €20 million Series A
French BESS owner-operator and optimiser Eclipse has completed a €20 million (US$23 million) Series A financing round co-led by BNP Paribas and Noria plus existing investors.
The firm will use the funds to scale its optimisation and trading platform Flowstream, expand its long-term offtake solutions across Europe and deploy its first own-operate projects.
Activity in France has picked up in the past year, see all coverage here.
