Power plant · Flemish Region, Belgium
Blue Marlin Battery Storage
Blue Marlin Battery Storage is a planned battery storage plant in Flemish Region, Belgium, with 300 MW of capacity, owned by GIGA Storage.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Flemish Region | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Start year | 2026 | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Owner | GIGA Storage | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 300 MW | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery storage | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.1236, 5.7742 | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its owner.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the owner.
Request researchHow it compares
Blue Marlin is the 2nd-largest of 2 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Flemish Region by capacity. It is not built yet, so it is ranked among the power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data, apart from the ones running today. Ranks and totals cover the ones that report their capacity.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flemish Region | 2nd of 2 | 900 MW | 33% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 488th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 688 permit notices, 105 substations, 23 CO2 emitters (17 operating), 17 data centers and 1 processing plant, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Van Eyck 380 kV | Substation | — | — | 0.3 km |
| Nitrogen natuurvergunning application, Leudal (prb-2025-4047) | Permit notice | — | — | 5.7 km |
| Nitrogen natuurvergunning application, Maasgouw (prb-2025-1336) | Permit notice | — | — | 5.8 km |
| Battery storage omgevingsvergunning decision, Echt-Susteren (gmb-2026-468194) | Permit notice | — | — | 6.8 km |
| 150 kV Born | Substation | — | — | 9.2 km |
| 380 kV substation (OSM way/1337139848) | Substation | — | — | 9.8 km |
| Electric boiler Weert (Trespa International) | CO2 emitter | — | Planned | 16 km |
| Data center, Roermond (OSM way 289816687) | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
| Chemelot BKG 01 | CO2 emitter | 2,820,546 tCO2e | — | 17 km |
Owner and place
More from GIGA Storage
- Green Turtle600 MW · planned
Other power plants in Flemish Region
- Doel2,911 MW
- Doel Nuclear Power Station1,026 MW
- Herdersbrug Steg480 MW
- Langerlo470 MW
- Drogenbos TGV460 MW
- Centrale T-Power425 MW
- T-power Beringen420 MW
- BASF Antwerp power station395 MW
Data on this page
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- Elia grid hosting capacity map. Elia grid hosting capacity map, Restricted.
- European Commission, Union Registry. EU Union Registry public data, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Officiële Bekendmakingen. Officiële Bekendmakingen, CC0 1.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.