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Ukraine prioritizes solar-plus-storage in renewables auctions
Newly-implemented rules governing Ukraine’s energy market introduce solar-plus-storage systems as a separate auction category, ease regulatory barriers governing standalone storage projects and establish processes for renewable energy facilities located in Ukraine’s occupied territories.
Mar 16, 2026
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“MACSE price levels were driven by bearish battery cost expectations. The market reality today is very different.”
“You can’t work miracles, so the problem remains — there will certainly be an impact for everyone,” Gabriele Buccini, head of Utility Storage at Trina Solar, told pv magazine Italia, referring to market volatility and the risks facing BESS manufacturers, which are now operating in a very different market environment than just six months ago.
Batteries awarded 1.22 GW in UK capacity market auction for 2029 delivery
Provisional results show more than 100 battery energy storage systems (BESS) awarded capacity market contracts in latest T-4 auction for Great Britain’s energy grid, with the vast majority of BESS contracts awarded to new-build capacity.
Brazil’s reserve battery capacity auction guidelines near finalization, 20 GW of projects already in line
ANEEL has approved March auctions for thermal and hydroelectric plants, with over 125 GW registered. Guidelines for the April LRCAP battery auction are still pending, but more than 20 GW of projects are already in development.
Brazil eyes gigawatt-scale energy storage growth in 2026
The Brazilian Association of Energy Storage Solutions (ABSAE) predicts that installations in Brazil’s commercial and industrial (C&I) segment should exceed 2 GWh in 2026. In addition, the group expects procurements of approximately 8 GWh in the auction scheduled for April, which will procure projects for delivery from 2028.
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MACSE auction: A game changer for Italy’s energy storage sector
With the first auctions for procuring new storage capacity in Italy expected in the second quarter of 2025, Aurora Energy Research has analyzed the internal rate of return for projects supported by the Energy Storage Capacity Procurement Mechanism (MACSE) and found that in certain cases expected returns exceed 9%, providing a high level of revenue security. However, as Aurora’s Maddalena Cerreto tells ESS News, there are also zones where the expected profitability of merchant investments outcomes the MACSE ones.
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How Brazil’s first capacity reserve auction of 2025 could impact battery demand
Changes to Brazil's first capacity reserve auction of 2025 could undermine the expansion of the procurement regime to include battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the second exercise of the year, according to Markus Vlasits, chairman of Brazil's energy storage trade body.
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UK regulator unveils first details of LDES cap-and-floor scheme
Ofgem sets out proposals for long-duration energy storage support scheme in letter to industry. Increased minimum capacity requirements and secured grid connection agreements floated as regulator acknowledges need to move quickly to meet government deployment targets.
Spain plans first capacity market auctions for summer 2025
The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has opened consultation about a capacity mechanism to ensure security of electricity grid supply. The resulting capacity market would be expected to be operational in 2026.
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