TotalEnergies has announced the building of a new battery storage facility in Belgium. The project operations are slated to begin by the end of 2025. The project will be situated at the TotalEnergies depot in Feluy, Belgium, and will have a 75 MWh capacity with a 25 MW power rating. The project announcement comes just a year after we the Antwerp storage project began, which is estimated to be operational by the end of the year.
Saft, a TotalEnergies subsidiary that specialises in battery technology solutions, will supply the storage technology in the form of 40 Intensium Max High Energy lithium-ion (Li-ion) containers. TotalEnergies will have a 150 MWh total combined storage capacity in Belgium once the Feluy and Antwerp facilities are operational. Two projects reflect around $75.79 million of global investment.
In April 2023, TotalEnergies launched a battery storage project its Antwerp refinery in Belgium. The projects has a power rating of 25 MW and capacity of 75 MWh, equivalent to the daily consumption of close to 10,000 households. Saft supplied the batteries for the project, in the form of 40 Intensium Max High Energy lithium-ion containers.
REGlobal’s Views: TotalEnergies has been expanding its presence in the European energy storage space. It has already commissioned at least four battery projects in France with total energy storage capacity of 130 MWh. Recently, the company has also signed agreements to acquire the German battery storage company Kyon Energy. This is in line with the company’s efforts to integrate more renewables into the grid along with ensuring stability of the grid systems.
