IPP EP Produzione has ordered 220MWh of BESS from inverter and energy storage firm Sungrow in Italy, with a storage-focused capacity auction scheme just 11 days away.
China-based Sungrow will provide EP Produzione with 100MW/220MWh of its PowerTitan 2.0 battery energy storage system (BESS) technology, for a project in Trapani, Sicily.
The 2-hour BESS will help to improve grid stability and integrate renewables, by providing frequency regulation, peak shaving and system balancing in a PV-heavy region.
Sungrow will provide 44 PowerTitan 2.0 units. The BESS is an AC block, meaning it has power conversion system (PCS) technology integrated into the same 20-foot unit as the batteries, speeding up installation time and improving controls, according to the company.
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The announcement comes as Italy prepares to run its first auctions within the MACSE scheme (Meccanismo di Approvvigionamento di Capacità di Stoccaggio Elettrico), on 30 September.
The uniquely-designed programme will see energy storage operators paid by transmission system operator (TSO) Terna for their capacity, which it will put into a centralised marketplace, which renewable operators will then be able to procure load-shifting capacity from.
The first auction will procure 10GWh of capacity, all in the Southern Italy, Sardinia, and Sicily, three of Italy’s six electricity market regions. MACSE will primarily be in these regions, where most of the solar PV pipeline is mainly comprised. In the North, the main contracted revenue scheme for BESS will be the Capacity Market, explained in more detail here.
Large-scale BESS projects and pipelines in Italy have been progressed recently by Zelestra, Neoen, Engie and ContourGlobal.
The country is targeting 50GWh of storage by 2030, although one developer speaking to ESN Premium earlier this year thought this could be overly ambitious.
Sungrow meanwhile has grown to be the largest BESS provider globally in H1 2025 this year, according to market intelligence firm Rho Motion. Its energy storage revenues recently overtook its inverter revenues, it revealed as it mulls a listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange. It also launched the successor to the PowerTitan 2.0 this year, the PowerTitan 3.0, offering a modular alternative to its predecessor.
