Tesla is providing its Megapack battery energy storage system (BESS) as well as engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services, in a deal announced at last month’s Intersolar Europe.

Kevin Dijkers, CEO of Giga Storage, said: “Green Turtle is much more than an energy storage project. It is critical infrastructure that strengthens Belgium’s security of supply, enables more renewable energy, and reduces dependence on imported fossil fuels.”

The company is based in the Netherlands but first embarked on its larger projects in neighbouring Belgium, where there is a more storage-friendly regulatory regime and less severe grid connection restraints, such as reduced grid fees, along with a capacity market (CM).

However, it did launch construction on a 1.2GWh BESS in the Netherlands last year, and is building a 1.4GWh one in Germany too.

We’ve previously interviewed Giga Storage’s then-CEO Ruud Nijs in 2022 and its then-CCO Lars Rupert in 2024.

Energy companies are accelerating battery storage deployment in Germany, with TotalEnergies and Kyon, Envision Energy and Ju:niz, and Flower announcing significant project developments and acquisitions.

With technology risk now largely removed from the equation, assessing how a battery storage project will perform across market opportunities is now the main object of financiers’ scrutiny, writes Ryan Alexander of enspired.

We caught up with the CCO of Netherlands-headquartered startup Moonwatt at last month’s Smarter E Europe trade show in Munich for a video interview.

According to a leaked draft of its Electrification Action Plan, the European Union (EU) must deploy 200GW of energy storage by 2030 to meet energy system flexibility needs.

Peak Energy, ESS Tech Inc, and Unigrid have made recent announcements advancing sodium-ion energy storage technology in the US and Europe.