Sungrow and Rolls-Royce have announced major battery energy storage system (BESS) project orders in Belgium and the Netherlands, respectively.
Sungrow providing 800MWh BESS for Engie Belgium project
Inverter and BESS company Sungrow has revealed it will provide the BESS for utility and IPP Engie’s 200MW/800MWh project in Belgium, which Engie started building last week.
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Sungrow will provide 320 units of its PowerTitan BESS product, which it claims saves 50% on on-site installation time thanks to a compact and pre-assembled design.
Engie had initially misreported the project’s BESS unit dimensions as measuring 25m x 4m x 3m, when in reality Sungrow’s PowerTitan – and with most BESS products in the market – comes in a 20-foot shipping container form factor, measuring around 6m x 2.4m x 2.9m.
Sungrow’s ESS Director Europe, Dr. James Li, said: “Sungrow is delighted to begin this new project together with ENGIE and to deliver our first BESS project in Belgium – one of the first storage projects of this size in mainland Europe.”
Sungrow is primarily an inverter company, ranking number one in S&P’s PV Inverter shipments table the last few years running, but has been making a big push into BESS and is now, by some measures, the largest BESS provider globally too.
The project with Engie is Sungrow’s first in Belgium. Its announcement did not say whether it would also be providing the power conversion systems (PCS) and inverters for the project.
Sungrow also said this week that it has signed a deal with investor Algihaz Holding in Saudi Arabia for an energy storage project with a capacity of up to 7.8GWh, which is expected to be delivered this year, according to Reuters.
Rolls-Royce Netherlands project
The BESS integrator arm of Rolls-Royce power solutions will supply 32.6MW/65.2MWh of its mtu EnergyPack QG grid-scale product for a project in the Netherlands.
The firm will supply its BESS for the Battery Park Zeewolde (BPZ) in the central Dutch municipality for a commercial operation date (COD) in summer 2025. Alongside the BESS supply, Rolls-Royce will enter into a ten-year maintenance agreement including guaranteeing the system’s capacity over that period.
The project is being co-located with the Zeewold wind farm and the BESS will help to balance out supply and demand in the grid when renewables production is high. The projects are owned by a collective of 200 farmers, residents and entrepreneurs, Rolls-Royce said.
BPZ is one of two BESS projects being planned for the nearby substation. The other is the BES Vogelweg Zeewolde BV which plans to deploy 140MWh of capacity subject to a final investment decision (FID).
Equans will design and realise the technical installation of the battery park, while civil engineering work is being carried out by construction company Van Boekel.
The Dutch grid-scale BESS market appears to have turned a corner recently, with gigawatt-hour-scale projects progressed by Giga Storage, Lion Storage and SemperPower/Corre Energy.
