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Get StartedOnce completed, the four-hour battery energy storage project will operate under a 15-year contract with Elia, Belgium’s electricity grid operator, and be located next to Engie’s gas power plant in Vilvoorde. From pv magazine ESS News site
rench electric utility Engie has launched construction works on one of Europe’s major battery energy storage systems (BESS) at its Vilvoorde gas power plant site, located north of Brussels. Once delivered, the 200 MW/800 MWh Vilvoode BESS project will occupy a 3.5-hectare site and feature 320 battery modules measuring 25 m x 4 m x 3 m.
Belgium’s largest operational BESS project prior to that was the 10MW/20MWh EStor-Lux project, brought online in April last year. One of the largest battery energy storage system projects in Belgium so far has been brought online at the site of a former coal power plant.
As for Belgium, the country’s largest project to date by megawatts, although equal in energy capacity to Ruien and Balen, is a 50MW/100MWh system brought online near the end of 2022 in the Wallonia region, inaugurated by developer Corsica Sole.
Engie described this as “a double success within the CRM framework,” which ensures a future for its site in Belgium. The Vilvoorde BESS project will be launched in two phases, with the commissioning of 100 MW of batteries in September 2025, and a further 100 MW in January 2026.
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