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WJWyesterday at 10:26 AM1 replyview on HN

We had an interesting case here in the Netherlands, where at the moment the biggest problem for big battery operations is to get sufficient grid transmission capacity. One clever company bought the site of a bankrupt aluminium smelter for cents on the euro, purely because said smelter had a direct high capacity connection to the national high voltage grid. Getting the rest of the site and the machinery was just a bonus.


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jacquesmyesterday at 10:59 AM

Yes, Aldel. I think that will pave the way for more moves like that. They have yet to install anything but the financing is there:

https://giga-storage.com/giga-storage-rondt-financiering-van...