Experts from LCP, Apricum and law firm CMS look at the development of financing and investment in UK battery storage.

Close to 900MW of publicly announced battery storage projects will be online in continental France by the end of next year.

Energy storage could garner a market share of one-third by 2025 for the new, pan-European automatic frequency restoration reserve (aFRR) market, which is set to launch in the middle of this year with France and Germany mutualising capacity first.

Gresham House expects to earn more than US$144 million revenues from Capacity Market contracts.

A number of core challenges remain for lenders in the energy storage market, not least the relative nascency of it.

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

Optimisation deals have been announced for battery storage systems in the UK for Habitat Energy and Centrica with developers Eelpower and Arlington Energy respectively.

Investors are now becoming more comfortable with battery storage in the UK, with projects being profitable and cost-effective, according to industry experts.

France’s first high-voltage transmission grid-connected battery project colocated with a solar PV plant will be equipped with a battery energy storage system (BESS) from Saft.