Connected Energy, a leader in second-life battery energy storage technology, has secured its first French building permits: for a 12MW project on a brownfield industrial site in Angoulême and a 9MW project in Centre Val de Loire. It has also appointed David Fonseca as a BESS project manager in France.
Together, the announcements mark a significant inflection point for the company’s French operations, demonstrating both the technical readiness of its development pipeline and its growing in-country capability.
The Angoulême permit covers a brownfield site in an established industrial area, situated alongside major industrial operators. The project will provide flexibility and load adjustment services to the local distribution grid. With the building permit in place, Connected Energy has now submitted a formal grid connection application. Subject to grid offer timelines, construction could begin within nine months.
The second permitted site, in the Cher department of Centre-Val de Loire, is being developed in partnership with the local municipality. Located at the intersection of a major industrial and commercial zone, the project will repurpose an underutilised industrial site, providing local grid flexibility while also delivering services at the national level.
