The Council of Menorca, one of Spain’s Balaeric islands, has detailed its energy transition plan for the next four years including 18MWh of distributed battery energy storage systems (BESS).
The Council will invest €24 million (US$26.2 million) in solar PV, BESS and electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints across eight municipalities over 2024-27. The investments are with a view on the island’s Menorca 2030 Strategy, its roadmap for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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It will invest in 9.24MWp of solar PV across pergolas in car parks and roofs of public buildings for self-consumption and creating ‘local energy communities’, adding to 4.5MWp that is already operational.
Along with this it will add BESS, a technology which is less developed on the island currently, the Council said. The 18MWh to be deployed will be linked with the publicly owned generation and self-consumption facilities, in operation or planned.
See how the capacity additions split out by municipality in the table below.
| Municipality | PV (MWp) | Batteries (MWh) |
| Alaior | 0.64 | 0.7 |
| Ciutadella | 0.91 | 0.94 |
| Es Castell | 2.98 | 8.46 |
| Es Mercadal | 0.61 | 0.49 |
| Es Migjorn | 0.36 | 0.44 |
| Ferreries | 1.83 | 5.23 |
| Mao | 1.1 | 0.93 |
| Sant Lluis | 0.83 | 0.81 |
| Total | 9.26 | 18 |
For more information about the investment plans and details about the PV and EV charging installations, see the Council’s announcement (in Spanish) here.
On mainland Spain, the grid-scale energy storage market is expected to boom in the next few years largely driven by government tenders, covered here and here, as well as the emerging business case of energy storage smoothing out solar generation.
