Statkraft and Sunvest signed their first Statkraft Sunvest agreements on 11 November 2026: power purchase agreements for four solar parks in the Netherlands and a battery optimisation deal. The four parks total 82.3 MW (ENB calculation from the capacities in the release), and the power purchase agreements run for 10 years under a framework agreement between the two companies.
The four parks in the Statkraft Sunvest deal
Two of the parks are operating: Zuidbroek at 49 MW and Lievelde, near Lichtenvoorde, at 11.4 MW. Two are in development: Zwaagdijk at 7.6 MW and Zomereiken at 14.3 MW. Operating parks are 60.4 MW, or 73% of the total, and the 21.9 MW in development is 27% (ENB calculation).
Sunvest, the partner in the Statkraft Sunvest deal, develops nature inclusive and agrivoltaic solar parks in the Netherlands, France and Germany that combine generation with storage. Statkraft says it has about 6,000 employees in 20 countries and has been active in the Netherlands since 1998. It recently began offering power purchase agreements and flexibility purchase agreements in the Dutch market, and describes the deal as a first step.
The Zuidbroek battery in the Statkraft Sunvest deal
As part of the agreements, Statkraft starts optimising the battery at Zuidbroek, rated at 10 MW and 20 MWh, under a tolling contract. In a tolling contract the asset owner is paid a fixed fee while the optimiser trades the battery’s flexibility. The battery’s duration is two hours (20 MWh divided by 10 MW), and its power is about 20% of the 49 MW park, assuming the solar figure is on the same basis (the release does not say whether it is AC or DC).
The release does not give prices, contract values, annual volumes or the tolling fee. It also gives no commercial operation dates for the two parks in development. European power price context is in ENB reporting on Eurostat business electricity prices, and storage ownership trends are covered in the Aypa Power stake story.
The next check is the commercial operation dates for Zwaagdijk and Zomereiken, which the companies have not published. Statkraft’s own account is in its Dutch press release.
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