A double helping of big energy storage news items in Poland, with the government launching a capex support scheme for grid-supporting BESS and state-owned power producer PGE revealing its long-term deployment plans.
Investor Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has partnered with GCSS, a joint platform of developers Ikigai Energy and Agnoli Giuggioli, to deploy 2.3GW of BESS in Italy.
A panel of developers, operators, OEMs and consultants discussed the different government approaches in Europe to ensuring long-term deployment of energy storage with revenue and capex support schemes, at last month’s Energy Storage Summit EU 2025.
Oil and gas major TotalEnergies has taken a final investment decision (FID) and started construction on a further six BESS projects in Germany, with Saft to provide the battery technology.
LG Energy Solution has confirmed that it will manufacture the batteries for a 263MW/900MWh BESS project in Poland at its plant in Wroclaw, in the southwest of the country.
Netherlands-based startup Moonwatt plans to commercialise an energy storage solution for hybridisation with solar using two big technological deviations from today’s industry standard – we hear more from the firm’s CEO and COO.
Some 2.5GW of BESS projects in the UK have won contracts across the T-1 and T-4 capacity markets (CM), announced in a week which also saw project financings worth a combined c.£1 billion, including from Zenobē, Constantine and Quinbrook.
The European Commission has approved a €699 million (US$760 million) state aid scheme in Spain to support the deployment of up to 3.5GW of energy storage.
