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

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.

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.

We caught up with Peter Kavanagh, CEO of BESS developer Harmony Energy, after it was acquired by Switzerland-headquartered power group Alpiq. 

RWE has launched construction on a 236MW/470MWh BESS in Germany, while IPP Kallista has done the same on a 193MW/386MWh system in France, supplied by Envision Energy.

In this deep-dive, we go through and analyse all of the technical features and claims of CATL’s new sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product, including its ‘millisecond-level self-healing’.

UK-based BESS and EV charging firm Zenobē has entered the German market with the acquisition of Bavaria-headquartered BESS developer SDP Energie.

In this news roundup, Grenergy, MaxSolar and Saft, and Amarenco have made significant advancements on BESS projects in Spain, Germany, and France.

Germany will have its first capacity market (CM) auction in September this year, following confirmation from the country’s energy regulator.

BESS deployments in Europe are growing exponentially year-on-year, but is asset management, operations & maintenance (O&M) and data given enough priority? A data executive from BayWa r.e. discussed the topic.