Large-Scale Battery Storage System to Be Built Next to Power Plant

Hungary Today 2024.03.07.

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With the announcement of the results of the public tender, the MVM Group‘s industrial-scale battery construction plan that had been announced in 2020, has taken a major step forward. The investment will cost just over EUR 5 million and the site is in Litér (western Hungary, near Veszprém).

Mavir intends to build a large energy storage facility in Litér, writes Világgazdaság. The site of the project is the area of the gas turbine power plant in Litér, where a power plant block receiving energy from “other renewable sources” will be built, according to the public procurement notice. The new unit will be connected to the 132-kilovolt busbar of the Mavir substation in Litér via an 11-kilovolt (kV) distribution system, an 11/132-kilovolt transformer, and a 132-kilovolt cable.

The winning bidder will be responsible for the design, supply, installation, and commission of a lithium-ion battery energy storage unit

with a capacity of 5,000 kilovolt-amperes and 10,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh). In addition, the task also includes the maintenance of the new power plant unit, the associated auxiliary systems, and the subsequent system. The implementation will take 135 months.

The tender was requested by MVM Balance. The estimated value of the investment is HUF 2.59 billion (EUR 6.5 million) and the total value of the contract is over EUR 5 million. The winning bidder is Extor Elektronika. The Budaörs-based (near Budapest) company is owned by Extor Holding, founded at the end of 2022, and controlled by System Building Ingatlanhasznosító.

The winning bidder will work 96 percent of the time with subcontractor, MVM Xpert.

Fact

The MVM Group is a key player in the Hungarian energy system, and its successful and competitive activities play an important role in the realization of the country’s energy strategy goals. The MVM Group’s growing portfolio covers the entire Hungarian energy sector. The MVM Group is the second largest group in Hungary and the fourth largest in Central Europe. A dynamic, innovative energy group, increasingly dominant at the regional level, and 100 percent state-owned, is also the largest energy knowledge center in Hungary, and its professional expertise makes a major contribution to the security of supply in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe.

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