In a big week for the grid-scale energy storage market in Italy, regulators have approved new grid storage-specific auction rules and a chunk of Aura Power’s 500MW-plus pipeline of BESS projects.

Energy networks in Europe share a common need for energy storage. What that looks like from a market perspective is evolving.

Fluence’s launch of a battery storage solution targeted at transmission network projects speaks to the high value of an as-yet underserved market.

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.

A 30MW battery energy storage system has been inaugurated by transmission system operator (TSO) ISA CTEEP in Brazil.

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.