A trio of BESS updates in Germany from power firm Alpiq, CATL-backed system integrator CNTE and virtual tolling platform Terralayr, totalling around 260MW of operational capacity. 

The UK government has launched a new grant funding programme for energy storage technologies that can provide inter-day and seasonal energy shifting applications.

Danske Commodities will optimise a BESS project that developer-operator BeGreen has added to a solar PV plant in Denmark, which the trading house already operates for BeGreen. 

The grid-scale energy storage market in Germany is in a strong position but key questions around grid fees, grid connections, FCAs and the upcoming capacity market remain, speakers at the upcoming Energy Storage Summit Germany 2026 said. 

Denmark-headquartered investor Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has brought its 500MW, 2-hour duration Coalburn 1 battery energy storage system (BESS) into commercial operation.

This year has seen a shift in the financing environment for merchant BESS projects in Germany for the worse.

What led Field to submitting, and winning, 16- to 18-hour BESS projects in the UK’s long-duration energy storage (LDES) cap-and-floor scheme, and what are the next steps? We hear from the firm’s technical director.

The German regulator BNetzA’s latest draft decision on grid fees from 4 August 2029 onwards still leaves uncertainty for energy storage project business cases.

The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has awarded €360 million (US$415 million) to 1.14GW of solar PV co-located with battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.

IPP Zelestra has agreed a long-term toll for a 99MW/297MWh BESS project in Germany with the trading arm of UK-based power group Centrica.