Grid operators from across Europe believe energy storage is a vital flexibility resource that should be incentivised.

A battery storage system in the UK has begun delivery of reactive power services, claimed as a world first contract of its kind.

Policymakers in Poland have removed legal and regulatory barriers to the development of an energy storage industry based in the European country.

A regulatory framework put in place by Italy’s grid operator TERNA has enabled Enel X to aggregate residential energy storage systems to pool their capabilities.

Italy’s electric system operator, Terna, approved contracts for dozens of megawatts (MWs) of energy storage facilities to serve grid-balancing applications each month throughout 2019.

A large-scale lead carbon battery energy storage system has gone into operation in Saxony, Germany to help regulate frequency of the grid, the latest of several such projects in the country by consortium Upside Group.

Guidance issued by Britain’s transmission grid operator on how to co-locate energy storage with generation facilities has been welcomed by an analyst at industry group the Renewable Energy Association.