The backing of new Electricity Market Design proposals by the European Parliament is welcome, but the plan still falls short in its support for energy storage technologies.

In June, Japanese renewable energy developer Pacifico Energy made the first trades from BESS assets in the country’s power markets.

The Italian grid-scale energy storage market is set to become one of the most active in Europe in the next few years having been close to non-existent until now.

Milestone reached in utility-scale battery storage market development in Japan, with Pacifico Energy trading energy from two new projects.

Japanese conglomerate Itochu is launching its first grid-scale BESS project with utility Osaka Gas and finance group Tokyo Century Leasing.

Developer BlueWave talked Energy-Storage.news through the opportunities for energy storage in ISO New England (ISO-NE), one of only a few markets where ancillary services are not part of the long-term value stack.

Italy is seeing “too many solar developers moving into storage” and issues around the spike in BESS capex costs shortly after 2022’s capacity market auction, sources told Energy-Storage.news.

Netherlands-based Alfen is deploying a two-hour-plus battery energy storage system (BESS) for Centrica Business Solutions in Belgium, the latter’s first outside the UK.

Enel Green Power will start building 1.6GW of battery storage projects in Italy this quarter, with the country’s utility-scale market expected to soar in the next three years.

UK battery storage developer Field Energy has announced plans to expand into Italy, a market where the utility-scale sector is set to grow substantially from a negligible base today.