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Setting the stage for US energy storage
Sweeping import tariffs and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) made waves for the US clean energy industry in a tempestuous 2025. While solar developers chase safe harboring deadlines, US energy storage manufacturing could benefit from rules that encourage onshoring, provided there is policy certainty to bank on.
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Italian Energy Ministry: “Too late to change capacity and MACSE auction rules”
Addressing several unresolved issues surrounding the Bollette Decree, the ETS system, and upcoming storage auctions, the Director General for Energy Markets and Infrastructure at MASE responded to industry concerns over the lack of regulatory clarity for the storage market.
EU industrial strategy could slow BESS progress, association warns
Industrial Accelerator Act sets out domestic content rules for large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects, including EU-made battery management system mandate. European Commission proposal to be debated by European Parliament and EU Council.
Spanish government plans to accelerate permitting for hydroelectric plants
Consultation now open on plan to streamline permitting process for reversible hydroelectric plants. The government wants to integrate energy authorization, environmental assessment and water concession into a single procedure.
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Why Ireland’s 10 GW energy storage pipeline is delayed by revenue uncertainty
Ireland’s market for battery energy storage (BESS) is likely to continue to decline after a brief ramp up around six years ago. Where developers once had a degree of certainty as part of the DS3, its ancillary market services framework, changes to that scheme are causing major uncertainty among developers.
Tariff uncertainty grips US battery development
The Trump administration’s China tariffs have piled atop existing and developing trade barriers on battery energy storage systems, components, and materials – destabilizing the US energy storage industry. While existing inventories will allow project development to move forward in the short term, uncertainty extends across the supply chain, including to prospective manufacturers.
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UK grid connection overhaul to fast-track shovel-ready energy storage and renewables sites
Regulator Ofgem's new system will see energy storage and renewables projects that meet land and planning requirements receive firm grid connection dates as 'Gate 2' sites. Other projects will receive indicative dates and locations, under 'Gate 1' status, and "zombie" sites will be removed from the queue.
German battery industry awaits May 27 decision on grid connection payments
The nation's Federal Court of Justice (BGH) will decide whether battery energy storage systems (BESS) should pay the same construction cost subsidies for a network connection as sites which only draw down power from the grid.
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