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Sweco will design one of continental Europe’s largest battery parks, Green Turtle, for the energy storage company GIGA Storage Belgium. This facility will have a storage capacity of 2,800 MWh of electricity. The park will make a significant contribution to the energy grid by providing stored renewable energy during periods of low solar and wind energy production — thereby reducing Belgium’s reliance on gas power plants. Sweco will deliver the design of the civil engineering and electrical engineering works of the battery energy storage system (BESS). Construction is set to begin in the summer of 2025 with completion of the new battery park expected by 2028.
The planned Green Turtle battery park will have a capacity of 700 megawatts, resulting in a storage capacity of 2,800 megawatt hours, which is equivalent to the average annual energy consumption of 385,000 households.
“The agreement concluded with our contractors, including Sweco, to be GIGA Storage Belgium’s partner for the design of the Green Turtle battery park comprises an important milestone. This is a flagship project for us in Belgium and an important project in realising the energy transition in Europe, where access to large-scale electricity storage plays a vital role. Sweco has been selected as our partner for the integral design because of their solid expertise in battery energy storage systems (BESS),” says Joeri Siborgs, General Manager of GIGA Storage Belgium.
The battery park to be built in Dilsen-Stokkem will store surplus wind or solar energy as it is produced to make that renewable energy available on the grid during peak times. In this way, the battery park makes more efficient use of renewable energy and prevents wind turbines and large-scale solar panel parks from being switched off to relieve the grid.
“By taking on the responsibility for the integral design of the Green Turtle battery park, Sweco will support GIGA Storage in laying the foundation for a resilient and sustainable energy system. In Belgium and across Europe, Sweco’s experts are heavily involved in the expansion of renewable energy and in the adaptation of power systems and electricity grids, to support clients in meeting new capacity requirements as electrification intensifies,” says Erwin Malcorps, Business Area President of Sweco in Belgium.
About the clientGIGA Storage Belgium is an energy company that develops and deploys large-scale energy storage projects within the Belgian energy network. The aim is to play a key role in securing Europe’s future electricity supply, with the ambition to achieve 3 GW of battery storage in Belgium before 2030. Read more
About Sweco’s position in the energy transitionSweco’s experts are advising in the expansion of renewable energy and in the adaptation of power systems and electricity grids across Europe, to support clients in meeting new capacity requirements as electrification intensifies. Sweco has leading-edge expertise in energy systems and electricity grids, and delivers consulting services within transmission and distribution, wind and solar power, and hydrogen and energy storage.
Sweco plans and designs the sustainable communities and cities of the future. Together with our clients and the collective knowledge of our 22,000 architects, engineers and other experts, we co-create solutions to address urbanisation, capture the power of digitalisation, and make our societies more sustainable. Sweco is Europe’s leading engineering and architecture consultancy, with sales of approximately SEK 29 billion (EUR 2.5 billion). The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
Eneco is investing in a major battery energy storage project in Wallonia. With the installation of a 50 MW/200 MWh of battery energy storage, sustainably generated electricity can be used more efficiently to balance Belgium''s electricity grid. The permit has been obtained, the battery ordered and preparatory study works are underway to have the project operational by the end of 2024. The battery power plant in Ville-sur-Haine in Wallonia will be fully owned.
The Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) consists of 53 Megapacks energy storage units from Tesla, for a total of 50 MW/200 MWh of storage. It can supply power to the grid for 4 hours. A growing number of wind turbines and solar panels are taking over much of the power production from existing fossil fuel power plants. However, there is not always electricity from wind and solar, the demand is only partly controllable and therefore it is important to have flexible storage. This makes it possible to offer (spare) capacity when needed to keep the power grid in balance. In cooperation with Belgian high-voltage grid operator Elia, the battery ensures that the ever-increasing volumes of variable solar and wind energy can be deployed in an efficient way and keeps grid power in balance.
"We are strengthening our renewable energy activities in order to contribute to reducing CO2 emissions. In this regard, energy storage is very important to absorb the fluctuations of renewable energy. This project is an important step for us towards a CO2-neutral energy system in 2035," said Tine Deheegher, manager Renewable Energy Solutions at Eneco.
The battery energy storage project is another step in Eneco''s investments in Belgium''s transition to a fully sustainable energy system. With 128 onshore wind turbines, participations in Belgium''s 2 largest offshore wind farms and nearly 400,000 solar panels, it is the largest green and the greenest major energy player in the country. By fully deploying battery energy storage, Eneco is contributing to a future-proof, reliable and affordable energy system in Belgium.
With this project, Eneco is taking a new step towards a fully sustainable energy system in Belgium and fulfilling the One Planet Plan with the ambition of being fully climate neutral by 2035. Batteries play an important role in achieving this ambition and the goal is to develop even more of them. At present, however, investments in battery projects in the Netherlands still lag behind those in surrounding countries. TenneT''s annual report on security of supply shows that at least 10 GW of batteries will be needed by 2030, and at the moment only 0.3 GW of installed capacity has been realized in the Netherlands. We call on the Dutch government to learn from policies in Belgium and Germany so that the Netherlands can actually achieve a climate-neutral electricity supply by 2035.
TotalEnergies has launched at its Antwerp refinery (Belgium), a battery farm project for energy storage with a power rating of 25 MW and capacity of 75 MWh, equivalent to the daily consumption of close to 10,000 households.
A First Flagship Energy Storage Project in Belgium
After commissioning four battery parks in France offering total energy storage capacity of 130 MWh, this project will be the Company''s largest battery installation in Europe. The batteries, 40 Intensium Max High Energy lithium-ion containers, will be supplied by Saft, the battery subsidiary of TotalEnergies, confirming its position as European leader in industrial-scale stationary storage with this project.
The installation, which will be operational by the end of 2024, will help meet the needs of the European and Belgian high-voltage transmission network 24/7 by:
Essential for the Development of Renewable Energies
TotalEnergies is delighted to develop this storage project, which will compensate for the intermittency introduced by renewable energies and thus enable their development. Batteries are an effective response to the growing need for grid balancing. They can be deployed quickly, have a limited footprint and high reactivity. As a result, they can help meet the new challenges facing power grids today.
This project, located on the Antwerp refinery site, will benefit from the available land and the site''s grid connection. It is a new step in TotalEnergies'' development of battery energy storage systems (BESS) which strengthens the company''s presence across the entire electricity value chain in Belgium (production, storage, supply).
"This first storage project in Belgium – our largest in Europe – will help ensure the stability of the Belgian and European grids to allow for greater development of renewable energies. It fits in perfectly with the multi-energy strategy of TotalEnergies. Backed by Saft''s battery energy storage system expertise, TotalEnergies intends to deploy storage solutions – notably in countries where we are actively developing renewable energies. With its energy storage solutions, TotalEnergies supports the growth of renewable energy production in the European energy mix," said Olivier Jouny, Senior Vice President Integrated Power at TotalEnergies.
TotalEnergies and electricity in Belgium
TotalEnergies and renewables electricity
As part of its ambition to get to net zero by 2050, TotalEnergies is building a portfolio of activities in electricity and renewables. At the end of 2022, TotalEnergies'' gross renewable electricity generation installed capacity was 17 GW. TotalEnergies will continue to expand this business to reach 35 GW of gross production capacity from renewable sources and storage by 2025, and then 100 GW by 2030 with the objective of being among the world’s top 5 producers of electricity from wind and solar energy.
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