GIGA STORAGE ACCELERATES ENERGY TRANSITION WITH THE NETHERLANDS’ MOST POWERFUL BATTERY

• Energy storage is the missing link in the energy transition.
• Renewable energy, such as wind and solar power, involve more fluctuations, and the trend where consumers of energy are increasingly also producers continues.
• As a result, it is becoming increasingly complex to properly match supply and demand and keep the electricity grid in balance.
• To cope with peaks and troughs and to prevent sustainable energy from going to waste, GIGA Storage will install very powerful batteries at strategic locations in the Netherlands.
• In the third quarter of 2020, GIGA Storage will place its first 12 MW battery in the Netherlands. The amount of energy stored in the Rhino battery on an annual basis is comparable to the total electricity consumption of about 5,000 households.
• An important step to accelerate the energy transition in the Netherlands.

In the third quarter of 2020, the first battery will be operational. It will be placed at the national practical center for sustainable energy Acrres in Lelystad, part of Wageningen University & Research. The battery will be connected to the Neushoorntocht Wind Farm. The battery has therefore been named the “Rhino battery.”

The primary purpose of this battery is to put a larger amount of renewable energy, at the right time, on the electricity grid. We do this by deploying the battery in such a way that you make optimal use of renewable energy production.

Windnet owns the local power grid. In the coming years, several large-scale wind and solar farms will be realized in Lelystad and connected to this grid. A smart-grid is being developed for this purpose, in which the battery will limit the switching off of renewable energy sources. Project Rhino thus makes an important contribution to reducing CO2 emissions. By storing renewable energy in the battery, this energy will not go to waste.