BESS developer-operator Giga Storage has agreed a time-limited grid usage contract with Netherlands’ TSO TenneT, the first of its kind, the firm claimed.
We caught up with the CCO of Dutch-Belgian BESS developer Giga Storage, who discussed the commercialisation of gigawatt-hour-scale projects, BESS pricing and the firm’s expansion.
A double-header of Netherlands news, with SemperPower and Corre Energy planning a 640MWh BESS at the latter’s compressed air energy storage (CAES) site and Powerfield commissioning the country’s largest co-located project.
Lion Storage has received a construction permit for a 347MW/1,457MW BESS project while Giga Storage hopes to start construction on a similarly sized one this year, representing a major step forward for the grid-scale energy storage market in the Netherlands.
A 45MW/90MWh BESS project in the Netherlands will be deployed by developer Dispatch, supplied by system integrator Fluence and optimised by utility Eneco.
Real estate investor Montea will put €30 million (US$33 million) to installing 56MWh of distributed battery energy storage systems (BESS) at logistics sites in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Infrastructure investor InfraVia has bought a majority stake in Giga Storage, a Netherlands-headquartered BESS developer which is building a 2.4GWh project in Belgium.
New rules which will reduce grid fees in the Netherlands by providing ‘non-firm agreement’ (NFA) connections as well as time-weighted rates could improve returns and double projected BESS deployments, an analyst has said, though a project owner was less openly optimistic about it.
The number of long-duration energy storage (LDES) technologies that will commercialise for applications beyond 24 hours ‘can be counted on one hand’, the CEO of compressed air energy storage (CAES) developer Corre Energy said in an interview.
