The Netherlands · the named batteries
GIGA Buffalo
Operating, 24 MW · 48 MWh, in Lelystad, owned by GIGA Storage. 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 | 24 MW |
| Capacity | 48 MWh |
| Duration | 2.0 hours |
| Status | Operating, as of 20 October 2026 |
| Stated date | October 2022, inaugurated |
| Municipality | Lelystad, WUR test site, Flevoland |
| Grid connection | Windnet smart grid at WUR site |
| Placed on the map | at the centre of Lelystad, its municipality (GeoNames) |
| How sure | Probable: the sources agree but none confirms every fact |
Who is behind it
| Owner | GIGA Storage |
| Traded by | Eneco (lessee) |
| Built by | Wartsila |
What the sources say
No 2025-26 source re-confirms it is still in service.; Probable: operating per 2022 sources, but no 2025 or 2026 source says it still runs. GIGA’s own page gives 25 MW; Eneco and Energy-Storage.news give 24 MW.
Evidence and sources
- source: news.eneco.com/giga-storage-and-eneco-jointly-realize-the-larg…
- source: energy-storage.news/biggest-battery-storage-system-inaugurated-in-t…
- source: energy-storage.news/wartsilas-48mwh-netherlands-bess-will-be-europe…
- source: giga-storage.com/en/projects/buffalo
From the owners’, developers’ and builders’ own releases, grid operators’ and permit notices and the trade press, read by Vitreous. No Dutch body publishes a meter, an instruction or a payment for a named battery, so this page carries none. List id NL-B08.