Oil and gas major TotalEnergies has taken a final investment decision (FID) and started construction on a further six BESS projects in Germany, with Saft to provide the battery technology.
The firm is investing €160 million (US$173 million) in the projects which are spread across Germany. They were developed by Kyon Energy, which TotalEnergies acquired in late 2023 and the battery energy storage system (BESS) units will be provided by battery manufacturer and storage system integrator Saft, another TotalEnergies subsidiary.
Construction started at the end of 2024 and commissioning is planned for early 2026, the company said. The 221MW portfolio adds to 100MW of BESS already under-construction in Germany, bringing TotalEnergies’ confirmed Germany BESS portfolio to 321MW. The project locations are visualised in the map above.
Saft is also providing the BESS for the other 100MW/200MWh project, which was announced in July 2024. The firm has deployed BESS for TotalEnergies in the US, Belgium and New Zealand too.
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They will add the company’s large renewables and clean energy pipeline in Germany, covering onshore wind and solar, offshore wind, electricity aggregation through Quadra Energy and electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints.
“The implementation and integration of all these battery projects will allow us to supply our customers with clean firm power, contributing directly to our targeted 12% profitability in this activity,” said Patrick Pouyanné, chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies.
Germany is regularly described as one of Europe’s most attractive energy storage markets thanks to its ambitious 200GW-plus 2030 solar target and large opportunities in the wholesale energy market.
Owner-operator BW ESS recently described it as Europe’s ‘hottest’ market, though a few weeks before its peer ‘green flexibility’ told us the development space was starting to saturate (Premium access). Sources in the past month, including at the Energy Storage Summit EU 2025 in February, have said the grid connection backlog for BESS is even more stark than in the UK.
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