- A renewable energy developer has inaugurated an 8MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in France
- 40% of the project’s cost was funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Neoen, a Renewable energy developer, inaugurated an 8MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Brittany, France. Last week, The Paris-listed firm announced that the Pod-Tredan project in Côte d’Armor has been online and helping to balance the grid since August.
The lithium iron phosphate (LFP) BESS has a capacity of 8.2MWh. Its discharge duration is slightly over an hour and is the largest in the northwestern region. In Quimper, the LFP BESS was assembled and deployed by the local system integrator Entech Smart Energies.
Recent projects to have come online include a 9MW/9MWh system from Innergex, while the largest in the country was expanded to 61MW/61MWh at the end of last year. According to research firm Delta-EE, France is set to have around 670MW of installed grid-scale BESS projects by the end of the year. About 40% of the project’s cost was funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), an arm of the EU.