TenneT’s flexible contracts to provide 9GW capacity, easing grid access

Dutch powerfulness grid institution TenneT has announced the availability of much than 9GW of capableness connected its high-voltage grid done flexible contracts extracurricular highest usage hours.

The inaugural aims to pull high-energy users who person been connected a waiting database owed to grid saturation, offering a solution to capableness constraints.

The caller time-dependent declaration allows TenneT to marque 40% of existent nationalist highest energy request disposable to funny customers.

The institution plans to scope retired to each imaginable customers who person shown involvement successful this caller product.

The estimated 9.1GW of capableness disposable for time-dependent transmission close (TDTR) contracts includes 4GW connected the 380,000 and 220,000-volt high-voltage grid and 5.1GW connected the 150,000 and 110,000-volt high-voltage grid.

The capableness connected the 150,000 and 110,000-volt grids is further divided by state oregon region.

Allocation has been completed for 2.3GW of the disposable capacity, and TenneT volition administer the remainder connected a first-come, first-served basis, considering societal priorities.

TDTR contracts supply customers connected to the TenneT precocious voltage grid the close to transport energy for a fixed fig of hours per year, astatine slightest 85% of the time. During the remaining 15%, TenneT whitethorn bounds energy acquisition oregon feed-in during highest periods, informing customers astatine slightest 1 time successful advance.

The requested TDTR capableness importantly exceeds existent highest energy request successful the Netherlands, which is present astir 19GW and expected to emergence to 27GW by 2030.

TenneT main operations serviceman Maarten Abbenhuis stated: 'We are moving connected expanding the energy grid passim the Netherlands. We besides request to usage the grid much intelligently and marque amended usage of the remaining capableness extracurricular highest hours. Today we are taking a large measurement successful this direction. We person much than 9 gigawatts to allocate to our customers connected the waiting list. That is simply a immense amount!”

TenneT anticipates that flexible grid users could prevention up to 65% connected grid tariffs done TDTR and intelligent usage of time-dependent tariffs.

Customers person applied for much than 70GW of TDTR capableness from TenneT, with the bulk of applicants being ample artillery farms, immoderate of which person submitted aggregate applications.

TenneT estimates that by 2030, the economically viable flexible capableness for large-scale batteries volition beryllium astir 5GW, overmuch little than the 70GW requested.

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