A panel of developers, operators, OEMs and consultants discussed the different government approaches in Europe to ensuring long-term deployment of energy storage with revenue and capex support schemes, at last month’s Energy Storage Summit EU 2025.
In some countries in Europe, grid-scale energy storage markets have emerged largely through merchant opportunities in ancillary services and energy trading, notably the UK/GB, Nordics and Germany. Countries in Southern and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) meanwhile are generally speaking a few years behind on deployments, and the markets are relying on government-led revenue and capex support schemes to get off the ground.
“In Germany, you have five times more volume trading you can do in the within-day electricity market than GB, which is the second deepest within-day market in Europe,” developer Bluefield’s Baiju Devani said, giving an idea as to why that is, and also why Germany was by-and-large agreed to be Europe’s most exciting market.
Bluefield was joined by executives from owner-operators Dais Energy and Ikigai Capital, consultancy Clean Horizon, the Polish Energy Storage Association (PESA) and lithium-ion OEM Envision Energy on the ‘What is the Right Way to Go About Procuring Long-Term Energy Storage in European Markets?’ on Day One of the two-day event.
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You can watch the whole 40-minute discussion below, in which the speakers went through different examples of the government schemes to kickstart energy storage markets, including in Italy, Greece and Portugal.
You can also read the write-up we did during the event itself here.
The full list of speakers:
- Patrick Clerens, Secretary General, European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) (moderator)
- Baiju Devani, Investment Director, Bluefield LLP
- Corentin Baschet, Head of Market Analysis, Clean Horizon
- Maciej Szambelańczyk, Board Advisor, Polish Energy Storage Association (PESA)
- Michael Koller, Director, Energy Storage Solutions, Envision Energy
- Daniel Connor, Director & CEO, Dais Energy
- Helena Anderson, COO & Co-Founder, Ikigai Capital