Green hydrogen projects have progressed in the Netherlands and India, the latter of which is being combined with a battery energy storage system (BESS).
Mobile battery storage rental company Greener Power Solutions plans to diversify its supply base away Alfen and has already bought a unit from Northvolt.
Swedish public utility Vattenfall has opened its Energypark Haringvliet in the Netherlands, which combines wind, solar and a 12MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).
Investors are becoming increasingly comfortable with energy storage as an asset class but numerous regulatory and market design hurdles remain across European markets.
With the European energy transition seemingly in full effect, why isn’t the Netherlands all in on energy storage? Andy Colthorpe speaks with Ruud Nijs, CEO of GIGA Storage and member of the board for Energy Storage NL (ESNL).
The largest battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the Netherlands so far will also be Europe’s first large-scale grid storage project to use lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery technology.
Testing and accreditation group DNV is going to build a Battery Safety Laboratory at Twente Safety Campus, a specialised complex in the east Netherlands dedicated to developing safety innovations and procedures.
