Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto has signed a decree allowing Italy to proceed with its energy storage capacity market auction, known as MACSE, in the first half of 2025.

While there is much more variety in the BESS supply landscape today, there are relatively few suppliers able to offer products for ‘grid-forming, enduring infrastructure assets’, developer and operator Dais Energy’s CEO said.

Lithuania can move ahead with a scheme to provide €180 million (US$200 million) in grants to energy storage projects after it was approved by the EU.

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) will play an important role in reducing curtailment issues Chile has been facing in 2024, keynote speakers said at the third edition of Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit Latin America 2024 today.

Cloud-based battery analytics provider ACCURE is monitoring a fleet of large-scale battery storage systems in Germany for Iqony, a subsidiary of utility Steag.

Utility and independent power producer (IPP) Celestia has deployed a solar co-located lithium iron phosphate (LFP) BESS in Colombia.

Sweden-based BESS developer Ingrid Capacity will trade its BESS projects as they start to come online, CEO Axel Holmberg said, while also discussing the CEE market and fellow Swede Northvolt’s current challenges.

Energy investment group DTEK discusses its large-scale BESS in Ukraine and Poland as well as the ongoing war with Russia.

While everyone agrees the capacity market (CM) is the foundation of the business case for BESS in Poland, that might not always be the case, one developer suggested.