TotalEnergies launches its largest battery farm in Europe at its Antwerp refinery

PARIS, FRANCE: TotalEnergies (Paris:TTE) (LSE:TTE) (NYSE:TTE), one of the seven supermajor oil and gas companies, has launched at its Antwerp refinery (Belgium), a battery farm project for energy storage with a power rating of 25 MW and capacity of 75 MWh, equivalent to the daily consumption of close to 10,000 households.

This project will be the company’s largest battery installation in Europe, after commissioning four battery parks in France offering total energy storage capacity of 130 MWh. The batteries, 40 Intensium Max High Energy lithium-ion containers, will be supplied by Saft, the battery subsidiary of TotalEnergies, confirming its position as European leader in industrial-scale stationary storage with this project.

The installation, which will be operational by the end of 2024, will help meet the needs of the European and Belgian high-voltage transmission network 24/7 by:

• Smoothing power fluctuations in the national grid on a daily basis, particularly during peak winter periods. • Guaranteeing grid security by participating actively in the national grid’s reserve services. • Allowing more renewable electricity to be integrated into the grid.

The project is part of TotalEnergies’ multi-energy strategy, which aims to produce and market energies on a global scale: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity. The company is also a major player in the entire electricity value chain in Belgium, with a portfolio of 450,000 BtC sites and around 100,000 BtB sites. The company also operates a wind farm located in the Belgian waters of the North Sea (300 MW) and is developing solar and onshore wind projects, with a portfolio of 300 MW2.

“This first storage project in Belgium – our largest in Europe – will help ensure the stability of the Belgian and European grids to allow for greater development of renewable energies. It fits in perfectly with the multi-energy strategy of TotalEnergies. Backed by Saft’s battery energy storage system expertise, TotalEnergies intends to deploy storage solutions – notably in countries where we are actively developing renewable energies. With its energy storage solutions, TotalEnergies supports the growth of renewable energy production in the European energy mix,” said Olivier Jouny, Senior Vice President Integrated Power at TotalEnergies.