Multinational utility and IPP RWE has started building its first battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the Netherlands.

We catch up with SemperPower, developer and owner of the two largest BESS projects in the Netherlands, discussing its commercial model, challenges, grid, regulations and more.

This Friday Briefing looks at some big new projects already announced this year and the new BloombergNEF Tier-1 BESS list.

Netherlands-based BESS developer Giga Storage has unveiled a 600MW/2,400MWh project it is developing in neighbouring Belgium, one of the largest planned projects in Europe.

The Dutch municipality of Noordoostpolder has submitted a draft zoning plan for one of the first gigawatt-hour scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in the Netherlands.

Developer-operator SemperPower has brought online its second large-scale BESS in the Netherlands in the space of a month, a 68MWh system, the largest in the country.

Netherlands-based BESS integrator Alfen is providing a 20MWh unit for a wind farm in its home market, in the region of Ooltgensplaat.

Battery storage developer and operator SemperPower has taken over operations on a 62.6MWh BESS provided by Rolls-Royce in the Netherlands, the largest in the country, it claimed.

Netherlands-based developer Giga Storage has announced its first project outside home turf, with a 300MW/1,200MWh transmission-connected BESS planned in neighbouring Belgium.

Germany-headquartered energy firm RWE is installing its first battery storage project in the Netherlands, with a 35MW unit virtually coupled with a biomass plant it operates.