MND Commissions a New Large-Scale Battery Storage Facility In Hodonín

The Hodonín project follows the launch of the battery storage facility in Břeclav earlier this year and confirms MND’s long-term strategy of investing in modern energy solutions and the development of energy storage. Battery storage is one of the company’s key focus areas, bringing together in-house project development, flexibility management, and electricity trading. Hodonín represents another step in building a portfolio of large-scale battery facilities that MND plans to continue expanding in the coming years.

• MND is putting a new battery storage facility in Hodonín into trial operation, with 10 MW of power and 25 MWh of capacity. ThisIt is the company’s second large-scale stand-alone project, following BESS Břeclav (12 MW / 31 MWh), which was launched earlier this year.
• BESS Hodonín will provide balancing services, flexibility to the power grid, and support the capacity of electricity trading. As in Břeclav, its operation will be managed by MND’s proprietary Energy Management System and advanced algorithms developed by its tTrading division.
• Hodonín represents another technological step forward. While BESS Břeclav uses four independently controlled blocks, the Hodonín facility operates with five independent units, allowing for even greater operating flexibility.
• MND will continue investing in energy storage. Additional large-scale battery storage facilities are being prepared in Orlová, Mušov, Bruzovice, and Blansko, with further projects also under development in Germany and Ukraine.
• MND’s total investment in large-scale battery storage facilities this year will exceed CZK 1 billion. The development of battery storage is part of the long-term strategy of MND and the KKCG Group. In addition to building battery facilities, the company is also developing its own technologies for flexibility management and the commercial use of energy storage.

In addition to helping stabilize the power grid, MND’s battery storage facilities will also be used for electricity trading and the provision of ancillary grid services. Their operation is managed by advanced algorithms developed as part of MND Trading’s proprietary algorithmic trading models. These continuously monitor current market conditions, forecasts for electricity consumption and generation, weather, the availability of cross-border transmission capacity, and the technical parameters of the storage facility itself. Based on this data, the algorithms determine when to store electricity and when to feed it back into the grid.

With 10 MW of power and an installed capacity of 25 MWh, the Hodonín battery storage facility is slightly smaller than BESS Břeclav, but it also features a different technical design. While the Břeclav facility is divided into four independently controlled blocks, the Hodonín project consists of five separate units. This enables a high degree of operating flexibility and more efficient use of individual parts of the facility based on current market and grid requirements.

Construction of BESS Hodonín was carried out by the general contractor, the Consortium for MND – BUILDSYS & IBG, with RCT Power serving as the technology supplier. The facility is expected to have a service life of 15 years.