Tesla Energy, the automaker’s energy division, has secured another big Megapack project. This time, it will contribute to the balance of the Belgian electricity grid.
In 2019, Tesla introduced the Megapack; is Tesla’s third desktop electric garage product after Powerwall and Powerpack.
A standalone Megapack unit is a container-sized “3 MWh battery system” with built-in modules, inverters and thermal systems. With its increased length and built-in force electronics, Tesla claims the Megapack is 60% more energy dense than its Powerpack. It is also delivered on site, in installable condition and can be shipped in containers.
Last year, Tesla updated the Megapack with more capacity, 3. 9 MWh, and made it slightly larger. The electric garage formula temporarily has the most popular battery pack for large-scale electric garage projects.
Despite a significant increase in production capacity over the past year, the delivery time of new Megapack orders shows that it is almost sold out for the next two years.
It has the go-to product for electric utilities looking to balance their grid and make greater use of renewables.
Just last week, we reported that Tesla Megapack had settled on a giant new $500 million energy garage project.
Now, Tesla’s battery formula has been selected for the giant two-hundred-MWh garage formula for Eneco in Belgium:
The Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) is comprised of 53 Tesla Megapacks power garage units, for a total of 50 MW/200 MWh garage. It can feed into the grid for four hours. An increasing number of wind turbines and solar panels help much of the electric power generation of existing fossil fuel power plants. However, there is not always electrical power from wind and sun, demand is only partially controllable and therefore vital. Have a flexible garage. This makes it conceivable to offer (backup) capacity when needed to maintain the balance of the electric power grid. In cooperation with Belgian high-voltage grid operator Elia, the battery ensures that the constantly expanding volumes of the variable force of the sun and wind can be successfully implemented and maintains the balance of grid strength.
Eneco has deployed a lot of solar and wind power in Belgium, and now this Megapack formula will make those renewable resources more valuable.
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