BayWa enlisted for solar-plus-storage-plus-hydrogen project in France

• Renewable energy team BayWa r.e. has actually been picked to execute a project in France combining a solar PV plant, a battery energy storage space system (BESS) and-- if enough offtakers can be located-- green hydrogen.

The Community of Communes of Haute-Saintonge, near Bordeaux, has actually picked the worldwide firm to supply the co-located project.

It will certainly combine a 40MWp PV park and a connected BESS. A press release did not expose the size yet BayWa r.e's director of technology in France Mathieu Bordeleau told Energy-Storage. news that, although its specifications had actually not been finalised, it was presently intending a 2-4MW, 4-8MWh two-hour system.

He added that it was "highly likely" that the picked battery chemistry would be lithium iron phosphate (LFP), considering that is the technology of selection for its other BESS projects, and that it would certainly have a variety of use cases.

" The use cases will be specified at a later stage, depending on economic chances and also possible modifications in the regulatory as well as reward frameworks. In the current situation, the energy storage system would certainly give supplementary services (frequency reserve) and would participate to the French capacity market," Bordeleau discussed.

Including: "We will certainly additionally examine the possibility of energy time change, in addition to peak cutting to optimise link to the public grid."

A news release claimed that green hydrogen manufacturing would likewise be added to the project if neighborhood offtake and exercise opportunities are confirmed. If it is, that portion of the project will certainly be supplied by Lhyfe, a firm based in Nantes, northwest France.

The renewable hydrogen would certainly be offered to commercial players, neighborhood authorities, associations or school as well as city transport, within a 100-150 kilometres distance. This capacity for including the innovation to the project will be verified through a 1 year research on local use.

BayWa r.e. has used the regional authority the opportunity invest in the project during the growth phase, and to come to be a majority investor throughout the construction and also operation phase.

This project will be a blueprint for regions that want to actively participate in the energy shift, specifically as a financial investment possibility for regional authorities", commented Céline Tran, Managing Director of BayWa r.e. France.

The business has worked with co-located projects in numerous other countries, including a 200MW/400MWh system in Texas it just recently offered to Eni New Energy, one in California for which it authorized a PPA with an offtaker lately, and also 2 in the UK it obtained from Harmony Energy as well as JBM in April 2022 as well as July 2021, respectively.