Leaked EU Electrification Action Plan recognises need for 200GW of energy storage by 2030
Update 16 July 2026: Energy Storage Europe sent a statement to Energy-Storage.news on the leaked plan.
Alfen and CATL agree 5GWh sodium-ion BESS partnership in Europe
System integrator Alfen and battery company CATL have struck a 5GWh partnership for sodium-ion BESS deployments in Europe.
EU ROUNDUP: Operators commission 682MWh of BESS in Germany, Estonia, Belgium, Denmark and Bulgaria
There’s been a flurry of project completions across Europe this past week, with projects completed in Germany, Estonia, Belgium, Denmark and Bulgaria by RheinEnergie/SMA, BSP, BStor, European Energy and Sunotec respectively, totalling nearly 700MWh of capacity.
What does a bankable route-to-market strategy for battery storage in Europe actually look like?
With technology risk now largely removed from the equation, assessing how a battery storage project will perform across market opportunities is now the main object of financiers’ scrutiny, writes Ryan Alexander of enspired.
Giga Storage secures finance for 2.8GWh ‘critical infrastructure’ Belgium BESS
Owner-operator Giga Storage has secured a €450 million (US$512 million) financing package for its 700MW/2,800MWh Green Turtle BESS project in Belgium.
Battery storage business models explored for AI data centres with Nordic reserve market revenues and US household computing power
AI data centre battery storage announcements on both sides of the Atlantic explore the tapping of grid-balancing revenues and distributed computing.
In the age of AI data centres and electrification, the grid is the real bottleneck
Europe is suddenly seeing AI data centre scale-up take centre stage in energy planning considerations amid the ongoing electrification of the economy.
Elestor, Windpark Zeewolde partner on 10-40-hour hydrogen-iron flow battery LDES project in Netherlands
Dutch long-duration energy storage (LDES) developer Elestor has partnered with Windpark Zeewolde to deploy a 20MW/200-800MWh hydrogen-iron flow battery storage system at what is described as Europe’s largest onshore wind farm.
VIDEO: HyperStrong to deploy sodium-ion BESS first in China, international projects could follow in 2027
System integrator HyperStrong will deploy sodium-ion BESS first in its home market of China, before bringing a product to the international markets, its president of technology said.
VIDEO: Fluence’s Lars Stephan on what data centres and cybersecurity developments mean for BESS in Europe
We sat down with Lars Stephan, EMEA director of marketing, policy and public affairs for system integrator Fluence, to discuss energy storage, data centres and cybersecurity at Intersolar last month.
