Infrastructure investor Actis has entered the Polish energy storage market with the acquisition of two large-scale projects from DTEK’s DRI, while R.Power and Solax have announced project updates in the country. 

Statkraft and Greenvolt Power have signed a 10-year tolling agreement covering 400MW of BESS across two operating projects in Poland.

Northland Power has closed financing on two large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Poland.

Olga Sypula, VP and regional director for Central Europe at developer and IPP European Energy, shares her views on the key trends, opportunities and challenges across the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) energy storage market.

IPP Greenvolt Power has started building its Siedlce battery storage project in Poland, while Gore Street, Taaleri Energia and DS1 have moved to construction on projects in Poland, Estonia and Lithuania respectively. 

A flurry of project completions, financings and supplier deals for large-scale BESS across the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region, from Greenvolt, Renovatio & CATL, Eurowind, Renalfa, MOL Group, Tavion, MetaWealth and Enexus & Longi. 

Poland’s grid-scale storage market has reached an impressive scale in the last few years, helped by the capacity market and various government schemes, but numerous challenges now need to be overcome.

This edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage features Engie, Econergy and Inion Software in Central and Eastern Europe.

A roundup of large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects being financed, acquired or contracted in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and Romania. 

We caught up with Peter Kavanagh, CEO of BESS developer Harmony Energy, after it was acquired by Switzerland-headquartered power group Alpiq.