Battery storage played a crucial role in the Baltic region’s switch from Russia over to the Continental European grid over the weekend, coinciding with Lithuania launching a €100 million storage support scheme.

The energy storage market in Italy has unique characteristics that mean more risk-averse investment funds will be able to enter, but upcoming auctions could be very competitive, driving down clearing prices, a director at consultancy Timera Energy said.

NYSE-listed firm Freyr has cancelled its plans for a battery manufacturing plant in Georgia, US, following its pivot to becoming a US solar company.

Renewable energy developers and IPPs discussed the growing attractiveness of co-locating storage and solar at Solar Finance & Investment Europe (SFIE) 2025 this week.

The start of 2025 has seen new and updated BESS revenue indexes launched for Germany as well as other other European markets, by optimiser enspired and consultancies Clean Horizon, Aurora Energy Research and LCP Delta.

Power purchase agreements (PPAs) have increasingly shown their limitations, and energy storage and flexibility resources can offer a solution, writes John Diklev, founder and CEO of Sweden-based optimiser and flexibility asset operator Flower.

ESN Premium hears from independent power producer (IPP) Econergy about its expansion from solar into BESS across Europe.

BESS developer-operator S4 Energy has put a 4-hour duration project online in the Netherlands, the first in the country to become operational.

Tesla and Sumitomo Electric have both been selected to supply energy storage projects in Japan. Tesla will supply Megapacks for a BESS project while Sumitomo will deploy a 12MWh vanadium flow battery.

The government of Estonia will financially back a 500MW pumped hydro energy storage project to meet the country’s need for long-duration energy storage, as the Baltics prepare to disconnect from Russia’s grid this weekend.