Axpo and R.Power sign 300MW BESS deal in Poland

Axpo Group has finalised a multi-year declaration with R.Power to optimise the operations of a 300MW/1,200MW-hour (MWh) artillery vigor retention strategy (BESS) successful Poland.

The caller installation volition beryllium constructed successful Dzięgielewo, Mazovia province, to heighten the flexibility of the country's powerfulness system.

The woody is said to beryllium the largest of its benignant for a azygous task successful cardinal and eastbound Europe, and among the largest successful Europe.

The declaration volition commence with the facility's commercialized cognition and widen done to the extremity of 2038.

It is structured astir a profit-sharing exemplary betwixt Axpo and R.Power, alongside a minimum gross guarantee.

This attack aims to unafraid the aboriginal of Dzięgielewo, an integral portion of R.Power's 1.7GW/6.3GW-hour (GWh) vigor retention pipeline successful the country.

R.Power main commercialized serviceman Rafał Hajduk said: “We are expanding our vigor retention basal to structurally equilibrium our increasing PV [photovoltaic] portfolio and present stable, cleanable vigor successful Europe.

“Long-term commercialisation agreements specified arsenic this are not lone cardinal to transportation of our ain pipeline but besides laic the groundwork for maturation of utility-scale BESS successful highly promising markets specified arsenic Poland.”

BESS optimisation involves managing the retention asset's cognition to maximise gross and plus value, including cycling vigor and providing ancillary services.

Axpo's engagement offers a warrant of minimum revenues, enhancing the project's bankability and reducing concern hazard for R.Power.

This improvement further solidifies Axpo’s relation arsenic a starring spouse successful vigor retention exertion and a trading spouse for BESS successful Poland.

Axpo Polska managing manager Mateusz Marczewski said: “Our concern with R.Power connected the Dzięgielewo task is different measurement towards gathering Axpo’s starring presumption successful the large-scale vigor retention conception successful Poland.

“Our extremity remains to maximise the worth of our partners’ assets passim their full beingness rhythm – from information successful powerfulness and ancillary services markets to a commercialisation exemplary tailored to bankability requirements.”

Axpo, with a 25-year beingness successful Poland, ranks among the largest autarkic vigor dealers and renewable vigor offtakers successful the country.

It manages a renewable vigor portfolio of astir 16TW-hours (TWh) and is progressive successful the improvement of PV, BESS and biogas projects.

In Poland, R.Power and Axpo person formed a long-standing concern that includes powerfulness acquisition agreements (PPAs) for astir 300MW of PV capacity.

They besides person a declaration to optimise the 150MW/300MWh Jedwabno retention facility.