Bulgaria breaks ground on 300 MWh Tvarditsa battery park powered by Tesla Megapacks

Tesla doesn’t sell cars in Bulgaria yet, but its Megapacks are already breaking ground there.

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Rumen Radev joined Tesla representatives in Tvarditsa, in the Sliven region, on October 20 for the start of construction on Battery Park Tvarditsa, according to the country’s Ministry of Energy.

The project lands a few months after Tesla registered a local company in Bulgaria, a move seen as a step toward an official market entry.

The site will be a five-hour energy storage system with 300 MWh of capacity, built around Tesla’s Megapack 2XL.

According to the ministry, it calls for 80 battery units along with twenty 4.4 MVA Tesla transformers.

The first of three projects

Tvarditsa is the first of three storage projects that Asarel-Trade and Power Profit plan to build in partnership with Tesla.

Together, the three sites would add more than 2,300 MWh of storage, and they’re part of an investment program worth more than €350 million (C$550 million).

“Whoever succeeds in building the capacity for reliable, sustainable energy storage holds the key to the future,” Radev said at the ceremony, as reported by BTA.

Energy Minister Iva Petrova said Bulgaria has brought more than 6 GW of storage systems online in under a year and a half, which helped keep power flowing at home and to neighbouring countries through the critical summer period.

Tesla talks investment

Interestingly, the ceremony wasn’t the only Tesla meeting of the day.

Afterward, Radev, Petrova and Innovation and Digital Transformation Minister Ivan Vasilev sat down with Tesla representatives to discuss potential investments in Bulgaria, the ministry said.

No details from that meeting were shared, and no date has been given for a Tesla consumer launch in the country.

The Bulgarian project adds to a busy run for Tesla Energy in Europe, where Megapacks are also powering Belgium’s largest battery project.

Tesla also said last week that its Megapacks are almost sold out.

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