BESS project owners, lenders and optimisers kicked off the Energy Storage Summit Germany 2026 today in Berlin with a discussion on developing a bankable project.

A regulatory change is opening Germany’s energy markets to 23GWh of home batteries. The co-CEO of VPP platform Flexa discusses what it could mean for the market.

Octopus Energy Generation has partnered with ZE Energy to invest in and build one of Italy’s biggest BESS projects, while Eco Stor has secured financing for one of Germany’s, which it is already building. Optimiser Entrix has also won two large contracts in Germany and the Netherlands.

A week of claimed first-of-their-kind advances in Germany’s BESS market, including the combination of monitoring, diagnostics and energy trading on one platform, an optimisation deal allowing multiple companies to trade one asset, and a law change accelerating permitting.

A roundup of large-scale European BESS project news, with Principia completing a project in Greece, Repono buying one in Romania, Kyon choosing optimisers for two in Germany and Voltalia and NGEN targeting Portugal.

Investment and IPP news from across Europe, with DTEK buying a BESS project in Poland, Ingrid inaugurating one in Sweden and Triodos investing in a German portfolio.

Major BESS route-to-market (RTM) deals have been announced in Poland, by Greenvolt and Entrix, and in Italy, by Zelestra and BKW.

Asset manager MEAG has acquired a 92.5MW/231MWh BESS in Germany, fully merchant-financed, which optimiser Entrix will trade in the electricity market.

MW Storage has enlisted optimiser Entrix to commercialise 50MW/100MWh of the capacity of a project twice that size in the town of Arzberg, Germany.

The start of 2025 has seen new and updated BESS revenue indexes launched for Germany as well as other other European markets, by optimiser enspired and consultancies Clean Horizon, Aurora Energy Research and LCP Delta.