BESS platform NGEN has started building an 85M/170MWh BESS in Austria, while Foresight Group and the EBRD have invested in development platforms in Germany and Lithuania.
BESS fund manager Gore Street Capital’s director of asset management Daniel Sherlock-Burke recently discussed the work it is doing around capturing and making use of its huge quantities of operational data.
Another busy week of BESS news from across Europe, with investors and owner-operators ABO, Field, Aspiravi, Prime Capital, Latvenergo, Sonnedix and Amarenco progressing large-scale projects across Europe.
Joshua Murphy, head of energy storage for IPP Econergy, met with Energy-Storage.news for a video interview to discuss various business and financial topics at the Energy Storage Summit 2026 in London last month.
Software and optimisation firms Flower, Volkswagen’s Elli and Nuvve have progressed large-scale BESS projects under own-and-operate models; Flower and Elli in Germany and the latter in Sweden.
In this second part of our interview with Wood Mackenzie energy storage analysts, we look at risk factors and mitigation across the European and US markets.
We heard from Danske Commodities’ principal originator Rimshah Javed at the Energy Storage Summit 2026, to discuss trends in BESS offtake, optimisation, FCAs in Germany and the Danish market. The latter has taken off in the past year.
Allianz GI, Luxcara and Return have acquired BESS projects and portfolios in Germany, Finland and Spain; Low Carbon, OX2, Cero Generation and Revera have taken FIDs on projects in Poland, Finland and the UK; and NHOA Energy has received a 600MWh order in Italy. All in all, the projects total at least 3.7GWh of capacity.
