Lion Storage reaches financial close on 1.4GWh BESS in the Netherlands
Developer Lion Storage has successfully reached financial close on a 1.4GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) set to be developed in the Netherlands.
Energy Storage Summit EU 2025: Day One at Europe’s biggest industry conference
The Energy-Storage.news team brings you daily highlights and insights from the Energy Storage Summit EU in London, UK.
The challenges of procuring long-term energy storage in European markets
Industry experts discussed the varying approaches in Europe to procuring energy storage via long-term support schemes on Day One of Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit 2025 in London, which kicked off today (18 February).
Eku Energy CEO on risk dynamics and making storage eligible for ‘lowest cost of capital’
Investor Macquarie’s storage platform Eku Energy’s market entry and strategy speaks to the broader emergence of storage as an infrastructure asset, which its CEO discussed with us, also giving his views on BESS capex and procurement.
Germany: ‘Europe’s hottest energy storage market for developers’
Germany is currently the “hottest market in Europe today from a development perspective,” according to battery storage developer-investor BW ESS.
Fluence launches AC block BESS solution with ‘industry-leading’ energy density
Fluence has launched a new AC-based modular battery storage platform for delivery in the fourth quarter of this year.
Ex-sonnen team’s German BESS platform: ‘hype coming to an end, market is consolidating’
We caught up with the CEO and strategy director of ‘green flexibility’, a German BESS operator platform whose management team is largely made up of executives formerly from home energy and VPP firm sonnen.
BW ESS launches in Germany with 1GW BESS development partnership
Energy storage developer-owner BW ESS has entered its fifth international market, partnering with developer MIRAI Power in Germany.
Apatura, Exagen, Firstway and others land 750MW of BESS planning consent in GB
A roundup of recent BESS development planning consent news in the Great Britain (GB) market this week, from the pages of our sister site Solar Power Portal.
‘Storage in GB really starting to benefit from renewables buildout’: Gore Street talks strategy, optimisation and LDES
The Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF) was one of the early movers in the UK BESS industry and now has operational assets in Great Britain (GB), Ireland, Germany, Texas and California.
