Tesla unveiled a new giant Megapack project in Belgium that is currently the biggest Megapack project in continental Europe and one of the biggest energy storage projects on the whole continent, according to Electrek.
Tesla’s energy storage product has rapidly become the leading battery system for large utility-scale energy storage systems. It allows electric utilities to make better use of renewable energy, such as solar, and stabilize the grid.
Megapack helped Tesla’s energy division boost storage deployment, and the brand has produced an impressive backlog of orders.
However, Tesla is currently working faster than ever through its backlog, with 42 Megapacks produced weekly at Gigafactory Nevada, in addition to the Megafactory in California lately coming online and trying to scale up to 40 GWh of Megapacks annual capacity.
Megapack project in Belgium
Notably, the automaker has unveiled a new Megapack project in Lessines, Belgium.
In Lessines, Belgium, a World War II turbojet generator had been providing energy support to the community since the 1950s. To provide cleaner energy storage and add more renewable energy to the grid, the Deux-Acren project installed 40 Tesla Megapacks, making it one of the largest storage systems in Europe.
The company confirmed that the Megapack system would be used for “energy shifting and stabilizing services.”
50 MW of power & 100 MWh of energy capacity in Lessine’s battery system
With 40 Megapacks, the Lessines battery system has 50 MW of power and 100 MWh of energy capacity.
The Texas-based carmaker says it’s the biggest battery system in continental Europe.
