ENGIE Vilvoorde
Operating, 200 MW · 800 MWh, in Vilvoorde, owned by ENGIE (Electrabel). Every fact below is as a published source states it, with the address beside it; a field not shown is one no source gave, and nothing is guessed.
The battery
| Power | 200 MW |
| Capacity | 800 MWh |
| Duration | 4.0 hours |
| Status | Operating, as of 19 October 2026 |
| Owner’s date | 14 November 2025, actual, fully in commercial operation |
| Municipality | Vilvoorde, Flemish Brabant |
| Grid connection | Elia, high voltage |
| Placed on the map | at the site itself, as mapped on OpenStreetMap (Batterijpark Vilvoorde) |
Who is behind it
| Owner | ENGIE (Electrabel) |
| Traded by | ENGIE |
| Built by | Sungrow (320 PowerTitan units) |
Not published anywhere we have found: ultimate owner, developer. The page says so rather than guessing.
In Elia’s list
Elia schedules this battery under the name below. Elia usually starts scheduling a battery when it begins testing, so the first day here is when it reached the grid, not when it began commercial operation.
| Elia’s name | First listed | Last listed | Power, as Elia lists it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vilvoorde BESS 1 | 1 May 2025 | still listed | 100 MW from 1 May 2025 |
| Vilvoorde BESS 2 | 1 May 2025 | still listed | 100 MW from 1 May 2025 |
Elia Transmission Belgium, open data dataset ods179, Elia Open Data Licence.
ENGIE Vilvoorde made 1.3 full discharges a day over the last 30 days of the meter
ENTSO-E publishes this battery’s metered output, hour by hour. A full discharge is its output divided by the 800 MWh its owner states it holds.
ENGIE Vilvoorde
200 MW · 800 MWh · first output 6 June 2025
| Month | MWh out | Full discharges | |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 324 | 0.4 | part month |
| July 2025 | 807 | 1.0 | |
| August 2025 | 4,107 | 5.1 | |
| September 2025 | 12,184 | 15.2 | |
| October 2025 | 25,482 | 31.9 | |
| November 2025 | 30,146 | 37.7 | |
| December 2025 | 23,832 | 29.8 | |
| January 2026 | 29,059 | 36.3 | |
| February 2026 | 23,073 | 28.8 | |
| March 2026 | 31,712 | 39.6 | |
| April 2026 | 33,862 | 42.3 | |
| May 2026 | 33,686 | 42.1 | |
| June 2026 | 31,172 | 39.0 | |
| July 2026 | 26,183 | 32.7 | |
| August 2026 | 30,230 | 37.8 | |
| September 2026 | 37,809 | 47.3 | |
| October 2026 | 14,214 | 17.8 | part month |
ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, actual generation per generation unit (16.1.A), units Vilvoorde BESS 1, Vilvoorde BESS 2, read 20 October 2026. Output only: ENTSO-E publishes no charging per unit.
What the sources say
Two units of 100 MW each in Elia’s list, both from the start of May 2025, about six months before commercial operation began in phases from October 2025. ENTSO-E publishes each unit’s output. Officially inaugurated on 26 January 2026.
Evidence and sources
- owner: corporate.engie.be/en/press/release/engies-battery-storage-project…
- more: ess-news.com/2025/11/20/engies-800-mwh-belgian-battery-now-f…
- position: openstreetmap.org/way/1454484382
From the owners’, developers’ and builders’ own releases and the trade press, read by Vitreous, joined to Elia’s list by name. This page carries no money: no Belgian body publishes what a named battery earns. List id BE-B07.