Germany’s policymakers, regulators and energy storage industry must carefully consider the issues of grid connections and grid fees, writes Thomas Antonioli of developer Terra One.

Flower and ENGIE sign a 7-year virtual toll for 126MW in Germany, while Entrix wins optimisation rights for DRI’s 133MW Polish BESS.

FlexGen and Eos Energy Enterprises, two US energy storage sector companies with different specialisations, have entered the European market.

We chat to Stephan Lehrke, head of Germany at Second Foundation, a Czech Republic-headquartered energy asset trading firm which is becoming an owner-operator of BESS.

Wärtsilä spinning out its energy storage activities and divesting a 50% stake this week reflects difficulties in making the business profitable and synergistic within the wider group activities, analysts said.

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.

Energy-Storage.news presents this sponsored webinar with Clean Horizon, on how Germany’s grid connection agreements can affect the business case for battery storage projects.

What is driving and shaping European BESS project financing and M&A this year?

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

‘We are walking with open eyes into new dependencies,’ said ReCharge’s Ilka von Dalwigk at the Energy Storage Summit.