IPP DTEK Group and system integrator Fluence have together put a 200MW/400MWh BESS portfolio in Ukraine into commercial operation, a milestone praised by the country’s energy minister Svitlana Grinchuk.
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.
Renalfa IPP has secured a €315 million (US$367 million) financing package from an EBRD-led consortium to support a 1.6GW renewables, 3.3GWh BESS rollout in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and North Macedonia.
Sungrow has signed a 2.4GWh strategic deployment agreement for battery storage systems in Europe with solar PV solutions provider SUNOTEC.
Technology group Visual Fan subsidiary Allview has partnered with Trina Storage to deploy a 65MWh BESS project in Romania.
State-owned power generator and distributor PGE has launched a tender for the construction of a 2-hour BESS project in Poland.
A double-header of Poland grid-scale BESS news, with GoldenPeaks Capital entering the market with a two-project acquisition, and R.Power securing a PPA for a solar-and-storage project.
Construction has begun in western Lithuania on a 30MW/60MWh grid-connected battery energy storage system (BESS) project using CATL equipment.
An EU-backed energy storage capex support scheme in Lithuania will support as much as 4,000MWh of battery storage, the Ministry of Energy has said.
European Commission funding is supporting a project to integrate battery storage at a pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant in Slovakia.
