Spain has awarded €165 million to seven pumped hydro storage projects totalling around 2.1GW/21GWh, while Portugal has set a target of 1.4GW of new pumped hydro capacity by 2040.

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

We sat down with Lars Stephan, EMEA director of marketing, policy and public affairs for system integrator Fluence, to discuss energy storage, data centres and cybersecurity at Intersolar last month.

The European Union (EU) has announced a tripartite agreement to accelerate energy storage deployments in the next two years.

A ‘staged approach’ to implementing the EU Battery Passport could be essential if Europe is to improve its battery supply chain.

The European Commission must “acknowledge the clear role of long-duration energy storage,” organisations including Energy Storage Europe and the LDES Council have urged.

US investment group Pantheon Atlas LLC has a planned 1GW hyperscaler data centre campus in Croatia will be supplied entirely by renewables.

Measures to limit EU exposure to fossil fuel supply chain and energy price shocks are welcome, but many questions remain, clean energy associations have said.

The recent European Union-India agreement could unlock innovation and scale in energy storage, writes Eugene Beh, CEO of Quino Energy.

IPP Akuo will soon start building a 2.75-hour BESS project in Borba, Portugal, integrated into its 181MW Santas solar PV plant.