ESN Premium speaks with Anna Darmani, energy storage analyst at Wood Mackenzie, about Europe’s sector evolution.

BESS technology has won the bulk of new resource contracts in the capacity market (CM) auction for delivery in 2027 in Italy.

Germany and the UK are currently Europe’s ‘hottest’ markets for battery storage, but others present exciting opportunities, too.

Industry experts discussed the varying approaches in Europe to procuring energy storage via long-term support schemes on Day One of Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit 2025 in London, which kicked off today (18 February).

BW ESS and its partner Penso Power have signed the first long-term tolling agreement for a single battery energy storage system (BESS) asset in Great Britain with Shell Energy Europe.

US renewable energy company Ormat Technologies has signed a 15-year contract for an 80MW/320MWh BESS project in California.

Japan is one of the most talked-about emerging grid-scale energy storage markets in Asia, and featured prominently at the Energy Storage Summit Asia.

Winning bids as low as IR3.41/kWh (US$0.041/kWh) have been registered in a tender for solar PV paired with battery storage hosted by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).

US solar PV and energy storage project developer Strata Clean Energy has signed a long-term tolling agreement for a 150MW/600MWh battery storage project in Arizona, US.

We hear from Gresham House and optimisers Capalo AI and Flower on the BESS industry’s move away from merchant-only models towards more contracted revenues.