From ESS News Romania has launched a new subsidy scheme for behind-the-meter battery energy storage systems to the tune of €150 million ($158 million). With the funding secured from the Modernization Fund, the Ministry of Energy launched the competitive bidding call on Tuesday. Bids will be accepted until January 17, 2025.
The Romanian Ministry of Energy has launched a grant program for battery energy storage systems developed in conjunction with existing renewable energy facilities – wind, solar, or hydro. From ESS News Romania has launched a new subsidy scheme for behind-the-meter battery energy storage systems to the tune of €150 million ($158 million).
Romania has launched a new subsidy scheme for behind-the-meter battery energy storage systems to the tune of EUR 150 million ($158 million). With the funding secured from the Modernization Fund, the Ministry of Energy launched the competitive bidding call on Tuesday. Bids will be accepted until January 17, 2025.
Following the positive assessment of the Romanian Recovery and Resilience Plan, the Commission has approved a €103 million Romanian scheme to support the construction of electricity storage facilities.
The representative residential PV system (RPV) for 2024 has a rating of 8 kW dc (the sum of the system's module ratings). Each module has an area (with frame) of 1.9 m 2 and a rated power of 400 watts, corresponding to an efficiency of 21.1%.
The total cost over the service life of the system is amortized to give a levelized cost per year. In the PV System Cost Model (PVSCM), the owner's overnight capital expense (cash cost) for an installed PV system is divided into eight categories, which are the same for the utility-scale, commercial, and residential PV market segments:
The representative commercial PV system for 2024 is an agrivoltaics system (APV) designed for land that is also used for grazing sheep. The system has a power rating of 3 MW dc (the sum of the system's module ratings). Each module has an area (with frame) of 2.57 m 2 and a rated power of 530 watts, corresponding to an efficiency of 20.6%.
When supplied with an energy storage system (ESS), that ESS is comprised of 80 pad-mounted lithium-ion battery cabinets, each with an energy storage capacity of 3 MWh for a total of 240 MWh of storage. The ESS cabinet includes a bidirectional inverter rated at 750 kW ac (four-hour discharge rate) for a total of 60 MW ac.
Netherlands' climate minister has allocated €100 million in subsidies to the deployment of battery energy storage system (BESS) technology.
That compares to the effective 100% requirement that solar-plus-storage projects used to need in order to qualify for an investment tax credit (ITC) in the US, and still do for Germany's Innovation Tender. The subsidy is needed because BESS co-located with PV are 'not profitable', the government said.
Installed solar capacity in the Netherlands reached 23.9 GW in 2023, a 4.3 GW annual growth. This was a sign of deceleration compared to previous years due to grid saturation and regulatory changes that affected utility-scale installations.
The Netherlands had an average installed solar capacity of 0.71 MW/km², with Zwijndrecht reaching over 5 MW/km². As of 2022, rooftop installations accounted for 1.8 GW in the residential sector and 1.3 GW in the commercial sector, while ground-mounted and floating projects contributed 0.9 GW.
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