Juan Ceballos, Trina Storage head of sales for Europe, tells ESN Premium how one of solar’s big players aims to become a major presence in energy storage.

ESN Premium speaks with Anna Darmani, energy storage analyst at Wood Mackenzie, about Europe’s sector evolution.

BESS technology has won the bulk of new resource contracts in the capacity market (CM) auction for delivery in 2027 in Italy.

A trio of European BESS announcements, with Merus Power securing an order in Finland and IPPs Metlen and Aquila Clean Energy EMEA winning government financial support for projects in Italy and Portugal respectively.

Industry experts discussed the varying approaches in Europe to procuring energy storage via long-term support schemes on Day One of Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit 2025 in London, which kicked off today (18 February).

The energy storage market in Italy has unique characteristics that mean more risk-averse investment funds will be able to enter, but upcoming auctions could be very competitive, driving down clearing prices, a director at consultancy Timera Energy said.

The start of 2025 has seen new and updated BESS revenue indexes launched for Germany as well as other other European markets, by optimiser enspired and consultancies Clean Horizon, Aurora Energy Research and LCP Delta.

IPP Enfinity Global has announced two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Texas, US with a total capacity of 425MW/850MWh.

Eni Plenitude, the utility arm of the large oil and gas major Eni, has completed construction of the 200MW/400MWh Guajillo battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Texas, US.

BESS owner-operator BW ESS and developer ACL Energy have expanded their development pipeline in Italy to 2.9GW.