The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide project financing for large-scale solar and storage projects in Egypt and Hungary, for project owners HAU Energy/Infinity Power and Renalfa respectively.

MetaWealth COO Michael Topolinski IV discussed the firm’s first BESS project in Romania, which is partially financed with bonds marketed at retail investors. 

Renewables developer and IPP Storm has secured project finance for two large-scale BESS projects in Ruien and Langerlo, Belgium.

How to enable bankability for large-scale BESS projects was the main topic of the opening panel discussion at the Energy Storage Summit 2026 which kicked off today (24 February).

Leading BESS owner-operators across Europe discuss the key trends around the financing and deployment of grid-scale projects, with the segment now the driver of continent-wide deployments according to trade body SolarPower Europe.

A pension fund will join the EBRD and EU Modernisation Fund in investing around €16 million (US$18.5 million) in a project on Croatia pairing large-scale BESS and a VPP.

Swift Current Energy has secured US$242 million for what the developer claimed will be the biggest BESS project in the PJM service area.

The financial close of two significant large-scale projects in Egypt could mark progress for the country’s nascent energy storage sector.

Enlight Renewable Energy is expanding its Gecama Wind Project in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, by integrating solar PV and battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Battery energy storage system (BESS) developer Giga Storage has closed financing on a 300MW/1,200MWh project in the Netherlands.