Part of France’s largest BESS to date, supplied by Saft for its parent company TotalEnergies. Image: TotalEnergies.
Close to 900MW of publicly announced battery storage projects will be online in continental France by the end of next year and although the country lags behind its nearest northern neighbour, the business case for battery storage is growing.
As shown by the work of our colleagues at Solar Media Market Research, the UK has roughly 1.5GW of large-scale battery storage. Its market has grown rapidly: before a 200MW tender for grid services held by transmission system operator (TSO) National Grid in 2016, the UK had almost nothing.
Now that the ability to stack revenues from multiple streams including ancillary services, arbitrage and the Balancing Mechanism and Capacity Market structures have propelled the UK into something of a leading position…