Project owners BSTOR and Energy Solutions Group have started building separate BESS projects totalling 440MWh of capacity in Belgium, following financial close, both of which will use Tesla Megapacks. Belgium is one of the most active and mature grid-scale energy storage markets in Europe, with. Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are used to store electrical energy as chemical energy in the short term. Typical uses include storing solar energy produced during the day for a delayed use at night or improving quality of supply of electricity at the end of a low voltage feeder or for. Called ‘Green Turtle’, it would be located in Dilsen-Stokkem adjacent to a new 380kV high-voltage substation run by transmission system operator (TSO) Elia. The location is along a high-voltage line from Van Eyck to Gramme while also being connected to the grid of the Netherlands. It has been well documented those failures in key procedures such as racking mechanisms, meters, relays and busses are among the most common source of unplanned outages.