The forthcoming introduction of the European Union (EU) Battery Passport could result in a 2-10% reduction in procurement costs, according to the consortium tasked with its implementation.
The government of Estonia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for what would be the Eastern European country’s first pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) facility.
Belgium’s energy minister visited the site of a large-scale lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery storage project, a few days after attending the inauguration of a vanadium flow battery system.
The “momentum behind energy storage,” leading to its wider adoption across the grid in Europe is becoming increasingly undeniable, Energy-Storage.news Premium has heard.
The European Union’s new Batteries Regulation will be a driver of change in how the energy storage system industry thinks about procurement and managing batteries at the end of life.
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Energy has launched two tenders to add 1,425MW of renewable power generation to the grid and 350MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.
EU body EIT InnoEnergy has launched a new platform for owning and operating energy storage assets across Europe, called Repono, targeting a 10% market share of an expected 1TWh market by 2030.