Europe’s Largest Battery Storage System For Germany

BESS - Battery Enery Storage System

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) has announced it has joined a project that will see Europe’s largest single-site battery energy storage system (BESS) built.

Through Enspire ME, a joint venture  between MC and the Netherlands’ Eneco, the battery system will be constructed in Jardelund, in the state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany.

The 48MW/50MWh project will provide capacity reserve and balancing services for renewables projects, mainly in Germany and surrounding countries. The company says the new system will also boost the value of MC and Eneco’s jointly run offshore wind projects.

“We have been strengthening our activity in the renewable energy field in order to contribute to a low-carbon society,” said Hiroshi Sakuma, Group Chief Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Corporation.

“We believe that energy storage will become a key factor, given the circumstance that energy volatility is expanding as the result of the rapid increase of renewable energy. This project is a significant step forward to the realization of the sustainable society.”

Mitsubishi Eneco battery systems

Construction of the battery storage system will start at the end of this year.

It’s not the first large-scale energy storage project MC has dabbled in. In January this year, Mitsubishi Corporation said  it had reached a basic agreement with AES Corporation and Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL) for the construction of a 10 MW energy storage system at TPDDL’s facilities; the first grid-scale project in India. That project, expected to be operational by the end of the year, will provide peak load management and increase system flexibility.

The relationship with AES became even cosier in February, when Mitsubishi Corporation said it would be working with AES and its local partners to offer AES’s energy storage platform across Asia and Oceania. AES recently completed installation of what was claimed to be the world’s largest lithium-ion battery, a 30MW/120MWh project in San Diego.

In other recent renewable energy related news from Mitsubishi, late last month the company announced it and partners had been awarded a contract for the construction of a geothermal power plant (Olkaria V) in Kenya; which will have 140 MW capacity.

The company has been building geothermal plants in Kenya since the 1980’s. With the completion of Olkaria V, these facilities will collectively provide 290 MW capacity; approximately 10% of the nation’s total generation capacity.

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