An energy supplier applies for a permit to use the Ringvaart power plant as a storage facility.
The Ringvaart power plant in Ghent is the site of a 100MW battery project for which Belgian energy producer Luminus has applied for a permit.
In the Ghent canal zone, the storage park will be linked to the ELIA grid.
According to Luminus, “the battery project offers a solution to the growing need for flexibility and stability on the electricity grid.”
When the site is built, it will have a 100MW capacity and 400MWh of storage, which is equivalent to 42,000 families’ daily consumption.
By the end of 2026, the project is expected to be put into operation.
Grégoire Dallemagne, the chief executive of Luminus, stated, “We are fully committed to renewable energy. We are number one in wind energy on the mainland and hydropower in Belgium.”
“We want to enable further growth of renewable energy and provide the necessary flexibility on the electricity grid with our battery projects here in Ringvaart and also in Lixhe, Wallonia.”
The expansion project by Luminus to install two to six so-called open gas cycle gas turbines at the same location would be replaced by the 400MWh battery project at Ringvaart.
The existing power plant will remain in operation.
