For more than a century, electricity grids relied on a simple physical principle: large rotating generators provided not only electricity but also stability. Coal plants, gas turbines and hydroelectric units…
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. Europe’s renewable leaders are no longer competing to build more generation – they are competing to build flexibility. Portugal’s first large-scale energy storage auction reflects a fundamental…
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. The UK energy regulator Ofgem has selected 16 long-duration electricity storage projects with a combined capacity of 7,645 MW under the first application window of its cap-and-floor…
As Europe races to build a more flexible electricity system, battery energy storage is rapidly becoming one of the sector’s most strategic investments. Swiss utility Alpiq has reinforced that trend…
A landmark auction, but not the real story Italy’s first MACSE auction was widely hailed as a landmark moment for battery energy storage. The numbers appeared impressive enough on their…
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are now central to electricity system operation, yet the analytical frameworks used to value and dispatch them remain structurally incomplete. The core issue is the…
Investment Summary Greece’s solar PV and battery storage market is transitioning into a structurally differentiated investment environment where returns are increasingly determined not by technology type alone, but by the…
For years, discussions about Romania’s energy transition focused on a familiar challenge: how quickly the country could deploy new renewable generation. Today, a different question is emerging. As solar capacity…
Voith is modernizing two additional pump-turbines at the Torrejón hydroelectric power plant in Spain. The contract from Iberdrola Generación S.A. builds on an ongoing modernization project and continues the collaboration…
Hydrogen has always promised something batteries struggle to match: fast refuelling and high energy storage potential. Yet one of the biggest obstacles for hydrogen vehicles has never been the fuel…