Copenhagen Energy Taps Energrid to Build 132 MWh Danish Batteries

• Copenhagen Energy appoints Energrid as EPC contractor for the 132 MWh Everspring battery portfolio, aiming for grid-ready storage by spring 2026.

Danish renewables developer Copenhagen Energy has handed the keys to its next big storage venture to compatriot contractor Energrid, selecting the engineering outfit to design and build a 132-MWh portfolio of battery systems that will plug directly into Denmark’s power-hungry grid.

Announced on Thursday, the deal makes Energrid the single point of accountability for the Everspring project—from site design and equipment sourcing to the nuts-and-bolts civil work that turns empty fields into humming power assets. The contract covers everything: high-voltage transformers, access roads, perimeter fencing, native hedgerows, and the all-important grid-connection infrastructure that will let the lithium-ion packs soak up excess wind power and release it when demand peaks.

Copenhagen Energy green-lit the venture earlier this year, striking a financing package in June with regional lender Ringkjøbing Landbobank. With capital secure, the company says construction crews will mobilise this autumn, targeting commercial operation “well before” the summer of 2026. Once online, the Everspring batteries will deliver up to 132 MWh of flexible capacity—enough to power roughly 20,000 Danish households for an evening or to keep a mid-size industrial park running through a peak-price spike.

Why storage, and why now? Denmark’s grid already boasts one of Europe’s highest shares of variable wind generation, but bottlenecks and price volatility have grown as turbines multiply on land and at sea. By storing surplus megawatt-hours when the North Sea breezes are strongest, then feeding them back as the wind wanes, BESS projects like Everspring smooth out price swings and help the grid operator avoid fossil-fuel “peaker” plants.

Energrid’s selection follows a competitive tender that, insiders say, leaned heavily on local knowledge. The contractor’s track record spans grid-scale solar and onshore wind balance-of-plant—experience that Copenhagen Energy believes will compress timelines and head off permitting surprises. “A Danish project, financed by a Danish bank and built by a Danish EPC—that alignment of interests matters when you’re racing a 20-month clock,” a company executive noted.

Looking ahead, Copenhagen Energy hints that Everspring’s two-site blueprint could be replicated elsewhere. The firm is already scouting additional locations where existing wind farms face curtailment, arguing that large-format batteries will become as integral to Denmark’s net-zero pathway as the turbines that first put the nation on the renewable energy map.