A trio of large-scale 4-hour BESS projects in Germany have progressed towards construction, from Enertrag and Enlight, Vattenfall and Fluence, and Giga Storage.

Having just begun construction on a 2.8GWh BESS in Belgium, Giga Storage has progressed its 1.4GWh project in Germany to the ready-to-build stage.

We recently caught up with Georg Gallmetzer, managing director of German BESS platform Eco Stor, about the firm’s role in formulating flexible connection agreements (FCAs) and how this was intimately tied to the debate on grid fees. 

A roundup of some of our key takeaways from the Energy Storage Summit Germany this week, including around FCAs, inertia, the capacity market (CM), EU restrictions on China, and the future of one very notable system integrator.

LFP is the de facto choice for the German BESS market today with sodium-ion still far from bankable, but that doesn’t mean choosing a supplier is necessarily straightforward. 

Flexible Connection Agreements (FCAs) must not be used simply to exclude BESS from connecting to the grid, but the industry will have to make do with them and all their imperfections for the foreseeable.

BESS project owners, lenders and optimisers kicked off the Energy Storage Summit Germany 2026 today in Berlin with a discussion on developing a bankable project.

A regulatory change is opening Germany’s energy markets to 23GWh of home batteries. The co-CEO of VPP platform Flexa discusses what it could mean for the market.

We hear from the BESS lead at RWE Renewables Europe & Australia ahead of the Energy Storage Summit Germany 2026, discussing the major trends, challenges and opportunities in the country’s grid-scale storage market. 

UAE state-owned renewables company Masdar has partnered with Germany’s Luxcara for battery storage and wind energy projects.