Battery Business Development Forum 2025

Where Innovation Met Opportunity
At the Battery Business Development Forum 2025, the battery and energy storage sector’s most influential minds came together to explore the future of the industry. From cutting-edge technologies to emerging business models, the event offered a platform for in-depth discussion, strategic networking, and forward-looking insights. Attendees gained valuable takeaways to power their next moves in a rapidly evolving market.

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Policy

BBDF 2025: Why time is running out for standalone storage Regulatory changes in Germany are closing the window for standalone storage. Development is shifting toward colocated battery storage which entails increasingly complex optimization, as discussions at the Battery Business Development Forum in Frankfurt am Main indicated.

Cornelia Lichner

Jul 21, 2025

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Projects & Applications

BBDF 2025: Co-location, hybrid PPAs reshaping the European energy market BBDF 2025’s “From Solar to BESS: Moving from PV Project Development to BESS With and Without Co-location,” has shown the potential for creating new business modules in the renewable energy business via the so-called hybrid power purchase agreements and the co-location of wind and solar energy assets with battery storage.

Emiliano Bellini

Jul 18, 2025

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Finance

BBDF 2025: Challenges and prospects in Italy, Europe’s hottest storage market Italy is currently among Europe’s hottest battery storage markets thanks to its MACSE auction scheme, an established capacity market and the first attempts to go merchant by project developers. This market, however, is becoming increasingly competitive and both micro and macro challenges are arising.

Emiliano Bellini

Jul 16, 2025

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Finance

BBDF 2025: Understanding BESS project bankability Financing remains one of battery energy storage system's (BESS) biggest talking points, as bankability, risk mitigation, insurance, and more.

Marian Willuhn

Jul 16, 2025

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Products

BBDF 2025: Warranties, safety key to achieving battery quality In a panel titled “Technological advancement and risk mitigation – What to consider when choosing a component?” technology specialists discussed what defines quality in the battery storage business. They all agreed that safety and warranties are the main pillars of any quality strategy a developer wants to implement.

Emiliano Bellini

Jul 16, 2025

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Revenue streams

BBDF 2025: Merchant vs. contracted strategies The 'Revenue models and market perspectives across Europe' discussion panel has delved into Europe’s hottest market showing how diversified and complex the current and future scenarios can be. The discussion also highlighted that, despite strong appetite from investors and a significant range of business models, lenders remain very cautious when it comes to risk hedging.

Emiliano Bellini

Jul 16, 2025

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Grid-scale

BBDF 2025: Flexible grid access opens up new paths for battery storage in Germany Flexible connections, better optimization, and theneed for better cooperation between parties for grid connections were all hot topics in the German-focused second session of the event.

Marian Willuhn

Jul 16, 2025

pv magazine Global May Edition 2025 | Powering through

Energy storage is increasingly showing its value as a central piece in the energy transition puzzle and investors are attracted to the opportunity of providing valuable services to the grid and participating in energy arbitrage [charging batteries when electricity prices are low and discharging during peak demand periods] and other potentially lucrative trading mechanisms.

This story is playing out in many parts of the world, including Brazil and the Caribbean. In this edition, however, we turn our focus to Europe, where many of the most developed energy storage markets are found in 2025.

The United Kingdom has led the continent so far, with Germany and Italy now taking steps to emulate this success. A wealth of new markets in the region are also waking to the potential of energy storage, including Spain, France, Greece, and Romania. “If Europe is really set on furthering its energy transition, it has no choice but to acknowledge that the fates of PV, wind, and [energy] storage are bound,” as Clean Horizon’s Michael Salomon neatly puts it.

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pv magazine Deutschland Februarausgabe 2025 | Surfen auf der Speicherwelle

In der Ausgabe diskutieren wir über die Welle an Netzanschlussanfragen für Batteriespeicher. Über 226 Gigawatt zählten wir in einer stichprobenartigen Umfrage im Februar. In der Marktübersicht Groß- und Gewerbespeicher zeigen wir neue Produkte und Trends bei der Ausstattung und Funktion. Wer in Batterien investiert, will diese vermarkten. Meist automatisiert durch eine Software. Wie das geht, was der Vorteil ist und worin sich die verschiedenen Anbieter unterscheiden gibt es auch zu lesen.