Increasingly, microgrids often lean on battery storage as a key component, replacing or reducing reliance on diesel and other fossil fuels.

Aer Soléir has signed an investment and co-development deal for 510MW of battery storage projects in Italy with Altea Green Power.

Energy Dome, an Italy-based company which has developed a novel CO2-based long-duration energy storage system, has closed an US$11 million bridge funding round.

European battery energy storage deployments are expected to plateau over 2024-27 due to lithium-ion scarcity whilst the continent will need 200GW by 2030 to accommodate additional renewables, according to a new report and webinar.

Italian startup Energy Dome has launched the first demonstrator project of its carbon dioxide-based energy storage solution, a 4MWh system in Sardinia, Italy, while also revealing Series B plans.

Energy conversion equipment specialist Ingeteam will supply a 70MW/340MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in northern Italy for a 2023 delivery date.

Italy-headquartered solar inverter manufacturer FIMER supplied 1MVA inverters to a solar-plus-storage project with a 18MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Gujarat, India.

London-listed energy storage investor Gore Street Capital CEO Alex O’Cinneide discussed its fund’s recent expansion outside UK/Ireland and which markets are most of interest, in an interview with Energy-storage.news.

The award of contracts to 1GW of battery storage was the “biggest news” to emerge from the latest round of Capacity Market auctions held in the UK.

Investors are becoming increasingly comfortable with energy storage as an asset class but numerous regulatory and market design hurdles remain across European markets.