Energy Storage

Fluence Energy Supplying 45-MW/90-MWh Standalone Battery Storage in Netherlands

June 21, 2024

Developers say this will be the largest standalone BESS in the nation. The project is expected to provide grid balancing services, reduce the possibility of blackouts, and make use of wind and solar-generated power.

Rod Walton, EnergyTech Managing Editor

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Fluence Energy and the Dutch battery developer Dispatch will construct a 45 MW / 90 MWh stand-alone battery-based energy storage system in the port area of Dordrecht, Netherlands.

Developers say this will be the largest standalone battery storage development in the nation. Virginia-based Fluence Energy has been developing utility-scale battery storage projects across the globe, including in Australia last year.

The project is expected to provide grid balancing services, reduce the possibility of blackouts, and make use of wind and solar-generated power. The battery system will store energy generated from renewable sources and release it during periods of high demand or when production drops to help maintain a steady and reliable supply of energy.

The Dutch government aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 49 percent by 2030 and by 95 percent by 2050 as compared to 1990 levels. In order to meet the goals and maintain grid stability, the Netherlands should deploy at least 9 GW of battery energy storage capacity by 2030.

“Dispatch, together with Macquarie Capital, is the catalyst for the rapid development of large-scale energy storage projects across the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany,” said Eiso Vaandrager, CEO and Co-founder of Dispatch. “The partnership with Fluence allows us to meet the growing demand for sustainable energy storage solutions with its leading battery technology.”

Fluence was created as a battery storage spinoff from a partnership between Siemens and AES Corp. The newly created firm became a public stock offering in 2021.

Earlier this month, Fluence Energy announced it was working with German transmission system operator TransnetBW GmbH to build a 250-MW grid-boosting battery-based energy storage system in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg.

About the Author

Rod Walton, EnergyTech Managing Editor | Senior Editor

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Rod Walton has spent 15 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. He formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

Walton earned his Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. His career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World.

EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

He was named Managing Editor for Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech starting July 1, 2023

Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.