April 3, 2025: Saft owner TotalEnergies is investing €160 million ($173 million) in six new battery energy storage projects in Germany.

The French oil giant said on March 26 that batteries for most of the combined 221MW of projects will be supplied by Saft for Kyon Energy — a subsidiary of TotalEnergies.

Patrick Pouyanné, chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, said: “The implementation and integration of all these battery projects will allow us to supply our customers with clean power, contributing directly to our targeted 12% profitability in this activity.”

TotalEnergies already has 100MW battery storage projects under construction in Germany, where its combined pipeline of projects amounts to 13GW of renewables and 2GW of battery capacity.

Saft said last June it was planning another increase in its BESS energy density — with its containers to move from 3.3MWh to more than 5MWh in 2026.

The battery firm installed its first containerized systems in 2012. Since then it says there has been a six-fold increase in the energy storage capacity of its Intensium 20-foot containers from 0.5MWh to 3.3MWh.