The project made headlines for using mostly locally produced technology with battery equipment from local battery manufacturer and system integrator Prime Batteries. Monsson’s head of M&A, Sebastian Enache, and energy storage project manager, Mihaela Popescu, discussed the project, the technology choice, and the wider Romanian market.
Entry into energy storage and designing in-house technology
We started by asking Enache and Popescu how Monsson, a renewable developer, operator and energy trader, got into the energy storage market, both as a project owner and technology developer.
“We are developing around 5,000MW of renewables and…