Germany is regularly described as Europe’s hottest market for energy storage, but its current regulatory framework is holding it back and changes down the line are also a concern.
Battery energy storage system (BESS) developer Giga Storage has closed financing on a 300MW/1,200MWh project in the Netherlands.
Spain’s Ministry of the Environment has formally launched its latest financial support scheme for energy storage, aiming to kickstart the deployment of 2.5-3.5GW of projects.
Ingrid Capacity and SEB have broken ground on a large-scale BESS in Finland, while Monsson has acquired a project in Sweden which it will start building in June.
Utility and power generation firm RWE will trade 50MW/100MWh of BESS capacity in Germany from the virtual aggregation platform of startup Terralayr under a five-year agreement.
Italy and Spain are set to soar as energy storage markets with multiple gigawatt-hours under construction and much more in the pipeline, but there are questions around the regulatory frameworks driving deployments in each country.
FlexBase Group will start construction on a data centre plus 800MW/1,600MWh flow battery in Switzerland the coming weeks, the firm claimed, explaining to Energy-Storage.news how and why.
Regulators in Germany are considering two big reforms that could improve the business case for BESS, while developer-operator Green Flexibility has announced its first major project.
Utility Public Power Corporation (PPC) has launched construction on two BESS projects in Northern Greece totalling 98MW/196MWh of capacity.
Battery storage developers and owner-operators Eku, Alcemi, Field and Energy Optimisation Solutions (EOS) make UK project progress with finance and planning approvals.
