Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Challenges to Deployment

Synopsis

With BESS going from strength to strength across Central Eastern Europe, with many projects reaching financial close, awarded subsidies, and beginning construction, what are the biggest challenges to deployment? Developers have suggested connection queues as the #1 biggest hindrance to the deployment of BESS, with reports of some projects taking up to 450 days to be granted access.

• How can grid connection queues be reduced?
• What regulatory challenges are developers seeing which may cause a hinderance when deploying BESS?
• What are the consequences of 12 month+ grid connection queues?