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Steady but not static: Battery revenues in January 2026
January brought a largely balanced power system to Germany, with firm winter demand, scarce negative prices, and contained volatility. Yet beneath stable price levels, revenue opportunities shifted across wholesale and balancing markets. Lennard Wilkening, CEO and Co-Founder of suena energy, breaks down how battery optimization performed in this compressed yet still actionable market environment.
BESS operators can earn from idle capacity in new UK market
Electron and Tem claim new market will provide stable, recurring revenue for flexible energy assets such as battery energy storage systems (BESS), without sacrificing access to other markets. The companies say their new offer is the UK’s first physical-hedging market for managing renewable imbalance risk.
BESS in Brazil: Feasibility of three strategic approaches
Based on real data from the National Interconnected System between 2024 and 2025, the study evaluates the technical, economic, and regulatory performance of batteries operating as autonomous market agents, behind the meter for consumption shifting, or co-located with distributed solar generation.
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Australia backs big batteries amid coal exit
Utility-scale batteries are meeting the challenge of guaranteeing network reliability during the clean energy transition with Australia having surpassed the United Kingdom to become the third-largest market for large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), behind China and the United States.
Baltic battery report: Get in if you can, says Aurora
New analysis from Aurora Energy Research (AER) finds that battery storage projects commissioned in the Baltics will capture high returns if commissioned in 2026 from both immature ancillary and intraday markets. By 2029, though, increased competition will change the outlook.
Operational issues hit returns in one in five battery storage projects, report finds
A recent report from battery intelligence firm Accure reveals that while most battery energy storage systems (BESS) operate reliably, nearly 19% of projects experience reduced returns due to technical issues and unplanned downtime.
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Day-ahead European electricity market switches to 15-minute intervals
More accurate mapping of renewable energy generation is expected, which could bring advantages for solar sites involved in direct marketing. Customers with dynamic electricity tariffs or load management, as well as battery storage operators, are also likely to benefit.
Between the peaks: Battery strategy in a moderate August
After a dip in July, battery storage revenues in Germany posted a modest recovery in August. Drawing on his company’s August revenue benchmark, Lennard Wilkening, CEO and co-founder of suena energy, explores what drove the recovery – and why adaptive, multi-market strategies continue to outperform static approaches even when market conditions are neither volatile nor flat, but somewhere in between.
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Competition in Italy’s future MACSE auctions could be just as fierce as in the first
Aurora Energy Research's Maddalena Cerreto, tells pv magazine Italia that with permits granted for 40 GWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Italy already, competition in the Mercato a termine degli stoccaggi (MACSE) auction program – which aims to secure 50 GWh by 2030 – is likely to be intense.
German regulator drafts plan for energy storage systems to charge from the grid without losing subsidy
The Federal Network Agency has presented a draft proposal for the market integration of storage systems and electric vehicle (EV) charging points. Under the plan, battery storage systems and EVs would no longer have to be powered exclusively by renewable electricity to benefit from Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (EEG) subsidies.
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