BESS technology has won the bulk of new resource contracts in the capacity market (CM) auction for delivery in 2027 in Italy.

Sungrow has agreed to supply ‘approximately’ 500MWh of battery storage technology to Sun Village, a Japanese solar PV project developer.

A trio of European BESS announcements, with Merus Power securing an order in Finland and IPPs Metlen and Aquila Clean Energy EMEA winning government financial support for projects in Italy and Portugal respectively.

ESN Premium hears from independent power producer (IPP) Econergy about its expansion from solar into BESS across Europe.

The government of Poland looks set to run further capacity market (CM) auctions with the specific aim of enabling gas plants to win, after BESS wiped the floor with the technology at the last auction.

BESS has won big in Poland’s capacity market (CM) auction for 2029 delivery, with potentially 2.5GW of projects winning contracts including from Axpo, OX2, R.Power, FRV and PGE.

BESS owner-operator BW ESS and developer ACL Energy have expanded their development pipeline in Italy to 2.9GW.

Capacity market (CM) auctions have concluded in Italy and Belgium and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects won the lion’s share of new contracts.

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.

The European Union’s transition to a renewable-energy-powered electricity grid will fail unless it does more to support and promote energy storage, according to the Energy Storage Coalition.