The European Commission has released its final Electrification Action Plan, reaffirming its belief that the bloc needs 200GW of energy storage by 2030.

BW ESS’ executive director Roberto Jimenez discusses the company’s recently-announced first Germany project, in Klostermansfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, which could be one of Europe’s largest when completed in 2028.

System integrator Alfen and battery company CATL have struck a 5GWh partnership for sodium-ion BESS deployments in Europe.

There’s been a flurry of project completions across Europe this past week, with projects completed in Germany, Estonia, Belgium, Denmark and Bulgaria by RheinEnergie/SMA, BSP, BStor, European Energy and Sunotec respectively, totalling nearly 700MWh of capacity.

With technology risk now largely removed from the equation, assessing how a battery storage project will perform across market opportunities is now the main object of financiers’ scrutiny, writes Ryan Alexander of enspired.

Owner-operator Giga Storage has secured a €450 million (US$512 million) financing package for its 700MW/2,800MWh Green Turtle BESS project in Belgium.

Update 16 July 2026: Energy Storage Europe sent a statement to Energy-Storage.news on the leaked plan.

AI data centre battery storage announcements on both sides of the Atlantic explore the tapping of grid-balancing revenues and distributed computing.

Europe is suddenly seeing AI data centre scale-up take centre stage in energy planning considerations amid the ongoing electrification of the economy.

Dutch long-duration energy storage (LDES) developer Elestor has partnered with Windpark Zeewolde to deploy a 20MW/200-800MWh hydrogen-iron flow battery storage system at what is described as Europe’s largest onshore wind farm.