Romanian Ministry of Energy has reopened a tender for battery storage for the grid integration of renewable energy, seeking “at least” 240MW and 480MWh of resources.
The Ministry is aiming to get the 2-hour duration battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities up and running by mid-2026.
A technical guide for selection criteria has been issued, with the call including funding for the purchase of equipment and its installation, as well as construction of BESS assets. Bidders have until midnight on 21 March to respond to the call.
For the BESS projects, 79.6 million euros in funding is available. The call has been relaunched by the Ministry after an initial launch in 2023 had been expected to see projects selected by the end of last year. That original call had been for around 620MWh or more of storage, as announced by the Ministry of Energy in November 2022.
Funding has been enabled by the European Union, through the recovery and resilience planning facilities.
