Enspired partners with Energreen on 962 MW BESS pipeline in Italy

enspired said it has entered the Italian market “thanks to a strategic collaboration with Energreen Trading, its local distribution partner.” The Vienna-based company also told pv magazine Italia that the arrangement is an “exclusive agreement to collaborate on the optimization of BESS projects” and does not involve any payments.

“The partnership offers a comprehensive service to asset owners looking to monetize their projects. The next steps are to optimize projects already under development. Additionally, we are open to collaborating with third-party energy storage system (BESS) owners looking to monetize their assets,” enspired said in an email.

The collaboration is supported by Energreen Trading’s pipeline of BESS projects in Italy, which totals 962 MW, according to a press release from the Vienna-based company.

“Together with enspired, we are creating a powerful market access offering that enables battery asset owners to generate value across multiple revenue streams,” said Benedikt Kormaier, CEO of Energreen Trading and CEO of Energie SpA.

According to Max Unterthiner, Head of Trading at Energreen Trading, the partnership will provide asset owners and buyers in Italy with access to cross-market optimization across energy markets (MGP and MI), balancing and redispatch markets (MSD/MB), the FCR market, and the Picasso-linked aFRR, as well as support for prequalification and MACSE compliance, algorithmic trade execution with dynamic strategy adjustment, a 24/7 live trading dashboard, and tailored market participation models.

The press release adds that, of Energreen Trading’s 962 MW pipeline, several hundred megawatts are expected to reach commissioning within the next 12–24 months.

“The assets will be brought to market through marketing strategies tailored to the financing and risk requirements of each project, ranging from fully merchant opportunities to structures involving established buyers, tolling providers, banks, and infrastructure funds,” the release states.

Energreen Trading is a wholly owned subsidiary of Energie SpA, which, according to the press release, has already brought 300 MW to the “ready-to-build” phase in 2025.

Interest in the Italian market

At Renmad Storage Italia 2026 in Bologna, enspired presented revenue simulation results indicating that the Northern Italy market in 2025 offers potential revenues of up to €180,000/MW per year for a 4-hour battery operating one cycle per day, leveraging wholesale arbitrage and ancillary service markets.

“Significantly, revenue simulations showed that cross-market optimization can generate 2.5 times higher revenue than optimization in the wholesale market alone, depending on asset configuration and market conditions,” enspired said, adding that revenues could increase by a further 10–20% through continued intraday trading or a higher number of cycles.

According to the press release, Italy is one of Europe’s most dynamic energy storage markets, with a national target of 22.5 GW of storage capacity by 2030.

Vienna-based enspired operates an automated, AI-driven trading platform active across wholesale, dispatch, and ancillary service markets. It manages more than 5 GW of flexibility assets across 12 countries in Europe and Asia, including 80 grid-scale batteries and 800 MWh of cross-market capacity. The company is also registered as a market operator with the Gestore dei Mercati Energetici (GME).

From pv magazine Italy