Chint Solar Europe has completed the sale of a 56 MW / 180 MWh battery energy storage portfolio in Germany, advised by Capcora as exclusive financial advisor. The companies describe it as one of the first forward-COD (commercial operation date) transactions in the German battery storage market.
The portfolio comprises five projects in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg, fully developed by Chint and to be delivered turnkey including EPC and operations-and-maintenance contracts. First projects are already under construction, with grid connection to the medium-voltage network planned between the second quarter of 2026 and the third quarter of 2027.
The buyer is Second Foundation, which plans to market the assets across revenue streams including balancing and intraday markets. Project rights and project companies were transferred as part of the deal. Chint frames the move as part of its shift from a solar developer toward an integrated energy-infrastructure provider, and said it may offer its battery EPC capabilities to third parties.
Forward-COD structures, where assets change hands before they are operational, are still relatively rare in Germany. Their emergence signals growing investor confidence in advanced storage projects, a trend with direct relevance to Baltic markets weighing how to finance the storage needed to integrate wind and solar.
