EU approves €279 million state aid for storage rollout in Czechia

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The European Commission has given the go-ahead to a scheme in Czechia that will support the deployment of 1.5GWh of energy storage projects.

The €279 million (7 billion CZ/US$304 million) of funding will be in the form of direct grants to build energy storage projects totalling at least 1,500MWh of capacity,

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It will be open to all energy storage technologies that are directly connected to the transmission or distribution network, and will support the European Commission’s 2024-2029 decarbonisation goals by reducing the Czech state’s need for fossil fuel imports.

The funding comes from the Modernisation Fund and was approved under the EU’s State Aid Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework (TCTF), which uses bloc-wide funding to support economies in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The aid will be granted through a competitive auction process, is limited to 50% of projects’ eligible costs, and will be granted no later than 31 December 2025.

Alongside Czechia (often still called the Czech Republic), TCTF has been used to support energy storage in other major Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) economies including Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. Hungary’s scheme in particular was praised by multiple speakers on a panel at Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit CEE 2024 in September last year.

Meanwhile, the EU’s separate Covid pandemic-related Recovery and Resilience fund has supported storage in Bulgaria, RomaniaFinland and Greece.

The largest BESS we’ve reported on in Czechia is a 30MW system co-located with a gas plant, put into operation in summer last year by independent power producer (IPP) Decci Group.

The country is still mostly powered by legacy power plants, including coal, gas and nuclear, but is increasing its renewables. Nearly 1GW of solar came online in 2023, driven by the residential segment, as reported by our colleagues at PV Tech.

23 September 2025
Warsaw, Poland
The Energy Storage Summit Central Eastern Europe is set to return in September 2025 for its third edition, focusing on regional markets and the unique opportunities they present. This event will bring together key stakeholders from across the region to explore the latest trends in energy storage, with a focus on the increasing integration of energy storage into regional grids, evolving government policies, and the growing need for energy security.

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