Olga Sypula, VP and regional director for Central Europe at developer and IPP European Energy, shares her views on the key trends, opportunities and challenges across the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) energy storage market.

Welcome to the first edition of In Case You Missed It (ICYMI), a recap of last week’s biggest news stories in energy storage.

Energy-Storage.news proudly presents our sponsored webinar with PowerUp, into the practical application of battery analytics by global IPP, Neoen.

Another roundup of user-posted hot takes and analysis from the energy storage industry recently.

We recently caught up with Georg Gallmetzer, managing director of German BESS platform Eco Stor, about the firm’s role in formulating flexible connection agreements (FCAs) and how this was intimately tied to the debate on grid fees. 

During the Battery & Energy Storage Tech Expo in Barcelona, Spain, Energy-storage.news spoke with Ken Davies, chief commercial officer at Digital Product Passport (DPP) provider DigiProd Pass and conference program director of the event, about the upcoming implementation of the EU Battery Passport.

Energy-Storage.news speaks with Nathan Picarsic, co-founder of Horizon Advisory, at the 2026 US Battery Asset Management and Solar and Storage Finance Summits in Garden Grove, California.

What is repetitive re-trading (RTT) by BESS in the UK, and what is NESO looking to do about it?  

Poland’s grid-scale storage market has reached an impressive scale in the last few years, helped by the capacity market and various government schemes, but numerous challenges now need to be overcome.

Existing assets can provide crucial benchmarks in sizing and other crucial battery storage design decisions, writes Ashutosh Vats, head of BESS business development at 3E.