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Britain’s renewable energy boom has a costly side effect: on windy, sunny days when the grid can’t absorb all the power being generated, operators pay wind and solar farms to…
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Battery energy storage systems are dispatched by optimisation engines that chase the best combination of arbitrage, frequency response, and capacity payments across a forecast horizon. Almost all of these engines…
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Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Battery energy storage is becoming core electricity infrastructure. Global battery demand exceeded 1.5 TWh in 2025, driven by electric vehicles and rapidly expanding stationary storage (IEA,…
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Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Until now the Contract for Difference has been treated as settled policy furniture — the mechanism that turned offshore wind from a subsidy-hungry curiosity into Europe’s…
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NEWS / ENERGY STORAGE
Europe’s energy transition is still being financed by a patchwork of public banks, institutional investors, corporate offtakers and project-level lenders — but the mix has shifted meaningfully since 2025. The…
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NEWS / ENERGY STORAGE
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Only a few days ago a new piece of news made waves across the Romanian and CEE energy space: EBRD announced that it would provide up…
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Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. Germany’s battery storage market has moved rapidly from a relatively small development segment to a major source of new grid connection demand. Network operators received 9,710 applications…
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NEWS / ENERGY STORAGE
Italy has put in place one of its most significant new frameworks for renewable electricity investment, opening the way for up to 37.15 GW of additional renewable capacity under the definitive FER…
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NEWS / ENERGY STORAGE
Chile’s energy transition is entering a new phase. After years of rapid growth in renewable generation, the country is now building an increasingly large battery storage fleet that could exceed…
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NEWS / ENERGY STORAGE
Aura Power and Verdant Energy have merged to create one of the UK’s largest privately backed solar and battery storage independent power producers (IPPs), combining around 1GW of operational and…
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NEWS / ENERGY STORAGE
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. This article is the second instalment of an eight-part series, “Poland’s Electrification Decade: The Race to Build a New Energy System,” examining the market forces, infrastructure challenges and investment…
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NEWS / ENERGY STORAGE
Romania’s battery storage market has moved beyond the development phase. Financing is flowing, projects are reaching financial close, and construction has started on a growing number of utility-scale assets. The…
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NEWS / ENERGY STORAGE
Poland is preparing one of its most important energy market reforms in recent years, with the UDER92 deregulation package aimed at removing regulatory bottlenecks that have slowed renewable energy development, grid connections…
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ENGIE has commissioned two utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Scotland, adding 100 MW / 200 MWh of new flexibility capacity to Great Britain’s electricity network. The milestone strengthens the company’s growing…
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NEWS / ENERGY STORAGE
Irish renewable energy developer Elgin has signed a series of long-term PPAs with Erova Energy Group, securing route-to-market services for a 112.6 MW portfolio of UK solar projects. The agreements mark another milestone…
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NEWS / ENERGY STORAGE
Lithuania continues to expand its battery energy storage fleet, with transmission system operator Litgrid connecting the country’s sixth commercial utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) to the national transmission network. The new…
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NEWS / ENERGY STORAGE
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. Poland has become one of Europe’s most important energy investment markets. Driven by rapid economic growth, rising electricity demand and one of the continent’s largest renewable development…
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Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. “The world is moving quickly into the age of electricity.” With this observation, Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, captured one of the biggest…
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