One of Belgium’s largest battery energy storage system projects so far has been brought online at the site of a former coal power plant.

A handful of companies are trying to get in early and design and deploy ‘second life’ energy storage units using EV batteries ahead of an expected boom in supply in the second half of the 2020s.

A 50MW/100MWh battery energy storage system, the largest in continental Europe, has been inaugurated in Belgium by developer Corsica Sole.

Energy crisis resulted in high ancillary services revenues for battery storage, with some assets earning four times more than expected.

Some 2,000 residential battery systems in Belgium have been aggregated into a virtual power plant (VPP) and are providing balancing services to transmission system operator Elia.

The story behind EStor-Lux, Belgium’s biggest BESS to date.

EStor-Lux, Belgium’s battery energy storage system (BESS) at 10MW/20MWh, was officially inaugurated on Tuesday (26 April).

Google hails project to retrofit data centre with battery storage as a step towards rolling out similar solutions across global fleet.

Construction has started on what will be the largest battery storage project in Belgium at 25MW/100MWh when completed later this year.

Close to 900MW of publicly announced battery storage projects will be online in continental France by the end of next year.