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Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland

56 points • by msalsas • today at 6:38 PM • 35 comments • view on HN

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gwlthr • today at 10:49 PM

Poland is an interesting market for BESS right now because it's still early days. The aFRR capacity market is mostly served by coal units, and only a few hundred MW of newly operational batteries are bidding against them. PSE buys roughly 400-500 MW of aFRR in each direction, so with several GW of batteries contracted in the capacity market for 2027-2030, reserve prices are likely to fall hard within a year or two. After that it becomes a market channel optimisation problem like in GB or Germany, which is a super interesting area to work in, IMO.

KaiserPro • today at 8:11 PM

2.4 gwhr is a monster of a battery.

For reference the UK has about 7gw output of battery (assuming all on at the same time. I don;t have the capacity though.) The UK is one of the more mature grid battery places in europe.

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msalsas • today at 6:38 PM

Greenvolt Group has started construction of a 600 MW/2.4 GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Poland, with commercial operations targeted for the end of 2027.

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mypalmike • today at 7:01 PM

Meanwhile the US is doubling down on fossil fuels because… reasons.

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morninglight • today at 7:18 PM

Which battery technology and where are the sourcing it?

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