Neoen has signed a deal granting Uniper SE the total tolling rights for the 30-megawatt/78-megawatt-hour Arneburg Battery in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
The seven-year contract will begin 2027, the businesses stated Thursday. The battery vitality storage undertaking is underneath development. Neoen, a Paris-based renewables firm underneath New York Metropolis-based Brookfield Asset Administration, expects Arneburg Battery to change into operational this 12 months.
“Uniper may have full management of the charging and discharging of the battery whereas Neoen will proceed to handle the asset’s operation and upkeep”, Neoen stated in a press release on its web site.
“Uniper intends to optimize the asset throughout all income market channels from ancillary grid providers to the wholesale market”.
Neoen stated individually, “The corporate intends to change into a significant participant within the nation’s [Germany] storage market, leveraging its in depth experience in creating and working large-scale batteries across the globe”.
Globally Neoen’s portfolio of battery vitality storage methods in operation or underneath development totals 2.7 gigawatts or 8.1 gigawatt hours, Neoen stated.
“With a considerable pipeline of initiatives in Germany, I’m assured this marks the start of a robust collaboration between our two corporations”, stated Neoen vitality administration director Christophe de Branche.
Uniper chief industrial officer Carsten Poppinga stated, “Agreeing battery tolls like this affords a manner for us to additional diversify our portfolio and assist the vitality transition”.
Final month Uniper stated it had obtained full approval for the development and operation of a 50-MW battery vitality storage facility on the web site of its former Wilhelmshaven energy plant.
The location, which produced coal electrical energy till December 2021, already has a photo voltaic plant underneath development. Focused to begin operation July, the plant is designed to product as much as 17.5 gigawatt hours a 12 months, in line with Uniper.
“With the battery storage system, we’re making a hyperlink between safety of provide and the vitality transition”, undertaking supervisor Harald Poppinga stated in a web based assertion December 11, 2025.
Uniper targets an influence technology capability of 15-20 GW by 2030, of which 50 % could be “renewable, low-carbon or decarbonizable”, in line with the up to date plan it introduced in its monetary and operational assertion for the primary half of 2025.
“Uniper intends to keep up its main function in offering a dependable vitality provide to energy and gasoline prospects in Germany and different European markets”, the assertion stated.
“The corporate intends to speculate about EUR 8 billion in its transformation by the early 2030s and, in line with its present estimate of market developments, to speculate about EUR 5 billion by 2030”, the assertion stated.
The majority of the EUR 5 billion deliberate till 2030 would go to Uniper’s inexperienced and versatile technology segments. The rest could be for the Greener Commodities phase, Uniper stated.
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