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Battery storage · Germany

BESS UW Vierlinden

Operator Wind-Plan-Sintfeld II GmbH & Co. KG

Planned5 MWData checked 10 November 2026

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BESS UW Vierlinden is a 5 MW battery storage site on the edge of Bad Wünnenberg, Germany. It first operated in 2029. Its status in the Marktstammdatenregister (Bundesnetzagentur, Germany) is planned. There are 124 other energy sites within 10 km, 3 of them battery storage sites. The register holds no incident at this site. It holds 17 incidents at battery storage sites in Germany, and 196 worldwide.

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The pack for this site lists 8 comparable battery incidents in Germany, grid-scale only, nearest first. The nearest is EIR-1586, Third battery fire at Suncycle site in Thuringia, 177 km from this site.

ReferenceYearIncidentFrom the siteSeverity
EIR-15862024Third battery fire at Suncycle site in Thuringia177 kmSignificant
EIR-24372024Battery container fire causes EUR 700,000 damage at German test centre177 kmSignificant
EIR-00972026Battery storage fire in Bautzen, Germany prompts local evacuations400 kmSignificant
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Summary for this site

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In the full pack
Technology
Battery storage (Usable capacity 10 MWh, Lithium-Batterie)
Capacity
5 MW
Capacity figure from
Marktstammdatenregister (Bundesnetzagentur, Germany)
Status
Planned (In planning)
Operator
Wind-Plan-Sintfeld II GmbH & Co. KG
Location
Bad Wünnenberg, Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, 33181, Germany
First operating
2029

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Alerts for applications and incidents near here

None found. The register holds no published incident that names BESS UW Vierlinden. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).

Has BESS UW Vierlinden had a fire or other incident?
None is on the register as of 11 November 2026. The register holds no published incident that names BESS UW Vierlinden; it holds 17 incidents at battery storage sites in Germany.
What is the status of BESS UW Vierlinden?
Planned, in the Marktstammdatenregister (Bundesnetzagentur, Germany).
Where is BESS UW Vierlinden?
On the edge of Bad Wünnenberg, Germany (postcode 33181).

Source: Marktstammdatenregister, Bundesnetzagentur, Datenlizenz Deutschland, Namensnennung, Version 2.0 (www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0). The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts. Nearest town: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).