Industry experts discussed the varying approaches in Europe to procuring energy storage via long-term support schemes on Day One of Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit 2025 in London, which kicked off today (18 February).

On the first morning of the Energy Storage Summit, an expert panel faced pressing questions from Europe’s energy storage professionals.

Fire safety should always be the BESS industry’s top priority and there are effective steps to achieve it, writes Angus Moodie, engineering manager at consultancy Enertis Applus+.

Investor Macquarie’s storage platform Eku Energy’s market entry and strategy speaks to the broader emergence of storage as an infrastructure asset, which its CEO discussed with us, also giving his views on BESS capex and procurement.

Germany is currently the “hottest market in Europe today from a development perspective,” according to battery storage developer-investor BW ESS.

A total of 5.2GW/13.8GWh of grid-scale BESS capacity came online in January 2025, of which over two thirds was in China.

Fluence has launched a new AC-based modular battery storage platform for delivery in the fourth quarter of this year.

We caught up with the CEO and strategy director of ‘green flexibility’, a German BESS operator platform whose management team is largely made up of executives formerly from home energy and VPP firm sonnen.

Energy storage developer-owner BW ESS has entered its fifth international market, partnering with developer MIRAI Power in Germany.

The Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF) was one of the early movers in the UK BESS industry and now has operational assets in Great Britain (GB), Ireland, Germany, Texas and California.