Experts at the ongoing Energy Storage Summit 2026 have cautioned against treating co-located storage as a “silver bullet” to prop up commercially underperforming solar assets.
The first monthly global grid-scale BESS deployment figures for 2026 are in from Rho Motion, showing a year-on-year fall and China continuing to account for the majority of activity.
Europe’s energy storage market has hit a turning point. What was once a scattered, early-phase market featuring pilot projects and daring developers has swiftly evolved into a dynamic, capital-intensive infrastructure sector, writes Wood Mackenzie research associate Cecilie Kristiansen.
That was the view of Søren Juel Hansen, energy storage director at Nordic Solar, when asked by Energy-Storage.news about the role of transmission system operators (TSO) in the industry.
“Standalone solar is not dead, but it is challenging,” said Pierre Bartholin, head of power hedging at investor Nuveen Infrastructure, opening the debate at Solar Media’s Solar Finance Investment Europe (SFIE) conference in London on the future of co-located battery storage.