The EU’s security requirements for energy assets including energy storage are increasing as the risks grow, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
Hungary’s subsidy scheme for energy storage will drive huge growth in BESS deployments over the next few years.
The decision to slash energy storage de-rating factors for the next capacity market auction in Poland will not be the death knell of the market, and may actually have some positives, project developers and IPPs said.
Flexibility will be a critical piece of the grid of the future and energy storage will play a central role in that, keynote speakers said at Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) 2024 today.
Investor Return has acquired an energy storage development platform in Germany, Swedish optimiser Flower has bought another large-scale BESS project, while Romania’s CIS Group has revealed a flurry of solar and storage projects.
DNO and IPP Electrica has received €3.4 million (US$3.8 million) in EU grants for a c.70MWh BESS project it will build in Romania.
News from the Nordics and the Baltics, with BESS projects launched in Sweden, Denmark and Latvia by Centrica, Nordic Solar and Niam Infrastructure and Evecon.
State-owned utility and power generator HSE is targeting 800MW of flexibility assets across Slovenia by 2035, including pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) and battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Rimac Energy’s SineStack battery energy storage system (BESS) will deliver ‘zero energy capacity fade’ for the first two years of operation.
Investor DTEK will build 200MW of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Ukraine as the country enters its third winter of war with Russia, with continued attacks on its electricity infrastructure looming.
