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Italy’s MACSE Auction: Battery storage price cap boosted to €37,000/MW/year The €5,000 boost from the Italian energy regulator has come via changes to three key parameters: the investment cost (INV), the rate of return on invested capital, and the operational cost factor (CFO), leading to a higher price cap in the upcoming capacity market auction for energy storage.

Sergio Matalucci

4 hours ago

Finance

CATL H1 profit soars 33% as energy storage and overseas expansion get results Chinese battery giant CATL posted a 33% jump in net profit in H1 2025, with growth driven by strong energy storage margins and overseas sales, even as price wars and mounting competition weighed on its core EV battery business.

6 hours ago

Finance

Iberian storage news: KKR injects €150M into Greenvolt for battery projects; Galp deploys 147 MWh in Iberia KKR is funding Greenvolt's battery expansion with €150M as Galp begins installing 74 MW.

Pilar Sanchez Molina

8 hours ago

Finance

New York’s State Energy Plan targets 9.4 GW of storage by 2040, 1 GW RFP launched With around 500 MW of battery storage now online, New York’s draft plan has big aims for 2040.

Jul 30, 2025

Industry

Lyten secures $200 million to buy Northvolt assets to accelerate shift European BESS push Following its earlier acquisition of the Gdansk plant, Lyten has raised an additional $200 million to further accelerate its efforts to be a main player in Europe for its battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Jul 29, 2025

Auctions

Portugal to hold energy storage auction before January 2026 Government outlines €400 million plan to strengthen grid resilience after April blackout.

Pilar Sanchez Molina

Jul 29, 2025

Finance

Spotlight on Finland: Energy storage sector set to double Finland's energy storage market is expanding, thanks largely to increasing renewable energy sources, plus regulatory adaptation being made by Fingrid, the transmission operator in the country.

Jul 29, 2025

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Top German court rules costruction cost fees for battery storage projects are permissible Big batteries must now pay this construction cost fee when requested by a distribution network operator. The court says that’s fair because it works to prevent the wider system from overbuilding, and pushing excess costs onto everyday electricity users.

Sandra Enkhardt

Jul 15, 2025

Markets

Worldwide battery storage installations up 54% in first half of 2025, June sets monthly record Globally, battery energy storage system (BESS) installations were up 54% in 2025 compared with the first half of 2024.

Jul 15, 2025

Projects & Applications

Simtel to deliver 196 MWh battery project for Turkish-backed Energy Capital Group in Romania Simtel signs EPC contract for a 196 MWh storage project as Romania expands grid-scale battery capacity.

Jul 14, 2025

Finance

Perspective on flexibility: How batteries, demand response, and interconnectors are powering a new grid As renewables surge and baseload plants retire, the energy system is facing an urgent need for flexible capacity to balance increasing volatility. While long-term solutions like batteries, interconnectors, and green hydrogen are underway, several short-term measures – from pairing new renewable energy plants with storage to leveraging underused grid connections – could help bridge the flexibility gap now. Sven Heiligtag, Managing Director at Vireo Ventures, explores both the challenges and actionable opportunities to stabilize the grid during the transition.

Jul 14, 2025

Finance

MN8 Energy secures $575 million for 375 MWh storage, solar portfolio The company closed its senior secured notes for a distributed and utility-scale solar and storage portfolio with Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking.

Jul 14, 2025

Industry

Romania removes double taxation on energy storage in bid for investors Under the new ‘Order on the Methodological Norms’, electricity charged from the grid and subsequently discharged back onto it is exempt from several key regulated tariffs in the country.

Jul 14, 2025

Grid-scale

AGL acquires Australian long-duration electro-thermal energy storage project from Photon AGL Energy has bought the 150 MW solar, 90 MW thermal, and 720 MWh storage Yadnarie Project from Dutch developer Photon Energy, following the award of development approval in June.

Jul 11, 2025

Grid-scale

Spain authorizes 29.3 MW energy storage in Q2 2025, with 523.8 MW enter planning stages Between April and June 2025, Spain's larger scale energy storage projects saw a small increasing in construction authorization, with a much larger increase in new projects entering public consultation.

Pilar Sanchez Molina, Tristan Rayner

Jul 11, 2025

Finance

Australian scheme to deliver 100 neighborhood batteries kicks off final funding round The Australian state of Victoria has launched its third and final round of grant funding through the 100 Neighbourhood Batteries Program, offering AUD$400,000 per battery through multiple streams of eligibility to a pool of nine council regions.

Jul 11, 2025

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