The Ministers of Energy and the Environment in Lithuania have approved an additional €37 million (US$43 million) for an energy storage capex grant scheme, while Trina Storage has secured orders in the country.

Hungarian distribution system operator (DSO) Opus Titasz has commissioned and put into operation four BESS projects.

Energy investment firm DTEK and system integrator Fluence have started commissioning a portfolio of six 2-hour BESS projects in Ukraine.

The energy regulator in Romania has exempted energy storage resources from fees for charging from the grid.

A double-header of large-scale BESS project sales in the Baltic region, with Aura Power selling to UAB Karjerų linija and Danish Sun Energy selling a co-located one to Sunotec.

A subsidiary of Turkish conglomerate Güri̇ş Group has signed an EPC contract for a 98.6MW/196.4MWh project in Romania with local firm Simtel.

Utility Ignitis Group has taken a final investment decision (FID) on three large-scale battery storage projects in Lithuania.

A lithium-sulfur battery startup has purchased Northvolt’s battery storage system factory in Poland and intends to reopen it immediately.

IPP MET Group has put a 40M/80MWh BESS in Hungary into commercial operation, deployed using technology from Huawei.

We caught up with the CEO of Bulgaria-based International Power Supply (IPS) to discuss its claimed first mass-scale cell-to-system BESS manufacturing facility in Europe and its ultra-high density 20-foot product.