The recent successes of the energy storage market in Europe bring new challenges alongside industry maturity, writes Vicente Abad.

European Union countries have made limited progress on energy storage deployment and electricity network flexibility recommendations.

Fotowatio Renewable Ventures has unveiled plans for a 1.2GW/5GWh portfolio of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Spain.

Operational experience, credibility and optimisation performance are becoming key to BESS bankability, writes Jürgen Mayerhofer, CEO and co-founder of optimiser Enspired.

A flurry of BESS project news from big-name players in Western Europe in the run-up to the Energy Storage Summit next week, with Neoen, Statkraft, Zenobē and Infranode moving projects forward in Germany, Ireland, the UK and Denmark. Highlights include a 15-year toll between Drax and Zenobē, and multiple 4-hour duration systems.

Leveraging 12 years of energy storage expertise, Cubenergy has launched FlexCombo 2.0, a next-generation flexible energy storage AC Block.

A team from Open Energy Transition discusses the benefits of open energy system modelling in assessing resources, including energy storage of varying durations.

We hear from Netherlands-based ‘distributed hybridisation’ sodium-ion BESS startup Moonwatt, as it announces its first project 18 months after being founded and around a year after executives introduced its tech and strategy to Energy-Storage.news.

The 2026 edition of The Energy Storage Report is out now and available to download, charting the key trends, challenges and successes in the industry.

Ukraine’s government sees energy storage as a tool of strategic national importance as the country weathers Russian attacks and looks to the future.