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Finland · who trades the batteries

Six companies are named as trading 13 of Finland’s 93 named batteries, and Capalo AI trades the most of those running

A trader, often called an optimiser, is the company that bids a battery into Fingrid’s reserve markets and the power exchange on its owner’s behalf. Some owners trade their own, and some sell the capacity to a trader for a fixed fee, a toll. Fingrid publishes the markets and not the bidders, and no Finnish register names them, so these are the agreements the owners and traders have announced. 6 of the 25 batteries running or commissioning have a named trader; for the rest, none has been announced.

TraderBatteriesRunning, MWAll, MW
Capalo AI6102207
Trafigura15050
Merus Power177
Statkraft20235
Centrica Energy20175
Ingrid Capacity1045

Capalo AI

BatteryStatusOwnerMWArrangement
Uusnivala BESSBeing builtL&G NTR Clean Power (Europe) III Fund (Uusnivala Energy Storage Oy)55Optimiser
Kalanti BESSBeing builtRenewable Power Capital (RPC)50Optimiser
MertaniemiOperatingJoint venture of Ardian Clean Energy Evergreen Fund and Lappeenrannan Energia38Optimiser
Lempäälä BESS (Taaleri Energia fund)OperatingA fund managed by Taaleri Energia30Optimiser
Riihimäki, Kaunola (Ardian)OperatingSkip Wind 5 Oy30Optimiser
LEMENE microgrid battery (Lempäälän Energia)OperatingLempäälän Energia (now the trading name of Lempäälän Lämpö Oy)4Optimiser

Trafigura

BatteryStatusOwnerMWArrangement
Kauhava (Nala Renewables)Energised, commissioningNala Renewables50Uses the capacity for its trading

Merus Power

BatteryStatusOwnerMWArrangement
Herrfors storageOperatingOy Herrfors Ab7Trading platform

Statkraft

BatteryStatusOwnerMWArrangement
Kannisto wind farm BESS (OX2)Being builtOX2125Optimiser
Korkeamaa wind farm BESS (OX2)Being builtOX2110Optimiser

Centrica Energy

BatteryStatusOwnerMWArrangement
AKKU OneBeing builtCovenergo (majority) with Delta Capacity125Partial toll
Kotka (Aquila Clean Energy)Being builtAquila Clean Energy EMEA50Optimiser

Ingrid Capacity

BatteryStatusOwnerMWArrangement
Pedersöre (Ingrid Capacity)AnnouncedIngrid Capacity with Mirova (partnership)45In house

Source: fi/hand/batteries.csv, the optimiser column, each with its web address on the battery’s page. A partial toll is an agreement in which the trader pays a fixed fee for part of the battery’s capacity. Trafigura uses Kauhava’s capacity for its own trading, by Nala’s word.