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Romania moves from solar to storage rebates
Romania is not planning to run a grant scheme offering non-repayable funds for home solar installations for a second year running, instead aiming funds at existing solar prosumers looking to install battery storage systems. The Romanian Photovoltaic Industry Association expects strong growth in Romania’s rooftop PV market to continue despite the absence of solar-specific installation grants.
Mexico’s firm capacity deficit expected to support batteries until 2030
Aurora Energy Research analyst Marvin Gareiss told pv magazine Mexico in an interview that batteries will play a growing role in the Mexican power system, although he warned that storage development still depends on regulatory definitions regarding firm capacity, ancillary services, and remuneration mechanisms.
Brazil’s battery capacity auction risks being delayed until 2027
The competition still lacks a policy framework and must take place five to six months after its publication. Brazil's storage association warns of a need for additional power starting in 2028, with a growing risk of a deficit. The battery LRCAP has been expected since 2024.
Czechia considers stop to double taxation on solar + storage projects
The Czech government is reviewing proposals to streamline procedures for new solar power plants, including increasing the threshold for paying electricity tax to 100 kW and preventing double taxation on projects installing both solar and storage.
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Labor election win brings Australian household battery rebate
The work schedules of Australia’s battery retailers and installers will likely get busy in the coming months with Labor’s win in the federal election paving the way for the introduction of an AUD 2.3 billion ($1.48 billion) national subsidy scheme.
Call for energy storage projects for Europe’s next 10-year grid plan
Project promoters hoping to receive EU Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) funding for energy storage and electricity transmission sites must first have them included in the 10-year network development plans (TYNDPs) drafted by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E).
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Plans for 5.1 GW of pumped hydro energy storage in India
The state electric utility of Uttar Pradesh has agreed to take power from a 1.5 GW/12 GWh pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project planned in Sonbhadra and Avaada Group will invest INR 151 billion ($1.78 billion) into the 2.4 GW Pawana Falyan and 1.2 GW Sirsala PHES sites in Maharashtra state.
Vattenfall plans 3 GW of batteries, offers tolling contracts
Vattenfall representatives Nicola Kleihues and Daniel Schwarz tell pv magazine about the power company's strategy in Germany and what it considers when buying project rights there. They also explain how to evaluate tolling offers to secure energy-storage-based electricity flexibility for a fixed fee.
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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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