Raafe Khan of Camelot Energy Group breaks down financial realities, market contradictions, and other dynamics shaping the energy storage space.

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

SECI is inviting bids for 4,800MWh of firm and dispatchable renewable energy (FDRE) capacity supported by co-located energy storage.

We hear from Clean Horizon about the consultancy’s European battery storage revenue index being added to Nord Pool’s Data Portal.

Lenders are increasingly willing to back large-scale BESS projects in Germany that don’t have any contracted revenues, although that merchant risk is priced in to structures, an executive at Aquila Clean Energy EMEA said.

Leading European BESS owner-operators discuss the roles of subsidy schemes, contract revenues and merchant approaches in helping the continent build out its BESS pipeline.

How can energy storage capitalise on energy price volatility in European markets, and how do investors need to think about future opportunities and challenges? An expert panel at the Energy Storage Summit 2026 in London in February dived into the topic.

Gridstor and Axpo have executed an energy storage revenue swap agreement for a 220MW/440MWh BESS in Galveston County, Texas.

Amid growing interest in Japan’s battery storage market, a consortium of major Japanese businesses is targeting 174MW of deployments.

What are the merchant opportunities in Germany, where there are almost no capacity schemes or subsidies for energy storage? A panel of expert speakers discussed the opportunities in Europe’s largest energy market on the panel at the Energy Storage Summit 2026 in London in February.