At the end of 2025, the 31.6MW/126.4MWh FlevoBESS battery, part of the Dronter Energie Opslag battery park in the eastern part of the Dutch province of Flevoland, will become operational. Under a long-term contract with Eneco, the energy company will use the battery to manage differences in supply and demand on the energy markets for sustainable electricity.
Preparations are already underway for its construction. It will be built on a site situated immediately beside the Windplan Groen transformer station in Dronten, where the electricity produced by a number of local wind farms is brought together in a closed distribution system. A loan agreement was signed with ASN Bank in December 2024.
FlevoBESS
FlevoBESS is a partnership arising from the XY Wind, Ansjovisstroom and Flevo Ventum onshore wind farms. These wind farms are part of Windplan Groen. It has over 400 local shareholders including people living directly in the vicinity of the project. This makes FlevoBESS a local partnership to promote renewable energy.
Eneco will control the FlevoBESS battery, storing surplus electricity to draw on at times when not enough electricity is produced. This increases the number of hours that the turbines can operate, and makes efficient use of the sustainable electricity that they produce.
Dronter Energie Opslag battery park
The FlevoBESS battery is part of the Dronter Energie Opslag battery park. A total of three batteries will be realised there, each with a capacity of 31.6MW, in a first phase. Besides FlevoBESS, GreenPowerBank Dronten and energy company Pure Energie are also collaborating on this. The parties are working in a mutually equal (financial) relationship to realise the battery project. FlevoBESS is legally and economically a completely independent company.
Dronter Energie Opslag (DEO) is one of three large-scale battery-electric storage projects in Flevoland. For instance, Windpark Zeewolde is also building a battery with a storage capacity of 65 megawatt hours (MWh). Source: Eneco and other
Related posts:
Zoning plan for large-scale energy storage system near Windplan Groen transformer station irrevocable
Pondera collaborated on case study for wind climate of Strekdammen Wind Farm
Wind energy business opportunities in Poland, Romania, Baltics and Bulgaria
Developing wind onshore is an organic process