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

It’s our first week back to normal service so here’s a roundup of the past few weeks of BESS action in Europe, with projects moving forward in Romania, Denmark, UK, France, Spain, Albania, Germany and Austria.

Project to integrate electric vehicle fast-chargers into ancillary services markets could be widely replicated, according to ADS-TEC Energy.

BESS optimisation company Enspired has recently announced expansion into Greece, Spain and Poland, but how will it approach operating across markets and what benefits will it bring? We hear from its CEO.

Some €17.9 million (US$19 million) in grants will be made available for ‘medium size’ distributed-scale energy storage projects projects in Austria.

Germany-headquartered organic flow battery company CMBlu has secured €100 million (US$107 million) from technology and construction firm Strabag.

UK-based investor Gore Street Capital has identified Poland, Hungary and Austria as markets of interest in the CEE region, investment principal John-Michael Cheshire told Energy-Storage.news in a Q&A.

Developer NGEN is deploying the largest battery storage projects in Slovenia, Austria and Croatia, and wants to take its model beyond CEE too, CEO and co-founder Roman Bernard said.

Developer NGEN Smart Grid Systems has completed a 10.3MW/20.6MWh standalone battery storage project in Austria, the largest in the country, it claimed.

Projects using novel, non-lithium battery technology have been progressed by organic flow battery firm CMBlu, liquid metal battery firm Ambri, and the NAS battery division of NGK Insulators.