Large-scale BESS projects have been progressed to construction, financing or operations across the EU this week, by project owners, investors and EPC firms re:cap, LONGi, Teos, Flower, Goldbeck Solar, SPP and Tavion.
Australian infrastructure contractor GenusPlus Group has been awarded an AU$110 million (US$78.5 million) engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract for the 200MW/800MWh Koolunga battery energy storage system (BESS) in South Australia.
Developer-operator Green Capital and EPC firm Electrum Holding have signed an agreement to build an 80MW/320MWh BESS in Poland, under a full ‘wrap’ model.
Building BESS is complicated, with myriad considerations around supplier contracts, site acceptance tests, data analysis, interface between different contractors.
Terna, the transmission system operator (TSO) of Italy, has approved the grid connection for a 500MW/3GWh BESS project. Meanwhile several smaller projects have progressed across the rest of Europe.
3.6GWh of solar-plus-storage developments have progressed in Australia this week, with Edify Energy partnering with DT Infrastructure and Flow Power acquiring a 60MW project.
A busy week of large-scale BESS projects news from the Eastern side of Europe, with projects reaching commissioning, final investment decision, technology procurement and acquisition, led by KNESS’ 2GWh partnership with Hithium in Ukraine.
LG ES Vertech, the US-based system integrator subsidiary of LG Energy Solution (LG ES), plans to deliver 50GWh of projects this year, ESN Premium has heard.
