Storage
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Italian electricity demand is rising alongside industrial and renewable output. June brought the highest demand recorded for the month in a decade, while solar capacity and battery installations continued to expand.
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Latvia’s storage build-out is moving into utility-scale hybrid infrastructure delivery. Ignitis Renewables will combine a 107MW battery system with the 174MW Tume solar farm and its existing grid connection.
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Romania’s battery pipeline is shifting decisively into large-scale construction activity. Projects totalling hundreds of megawatts are advancing through financing, engineering, and procurement as solar deployment increases demand for flexible network capacity.
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Hybrid storage is moving beyond batteries into faster grid control. Acciona Energía is pairing lithium-ion capacity with ultracapacitors to deliver rapid frequency, voltage, and virtual-inertia support at renewable sites in Navarra.
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Germany’s Waltrop battery project has moved decisively into construction now. The 900MW system will place 1.8GWh of storage beside a former coal-fired power station, divided across three independently transformed blocks.
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Fidra has closed financing for West Burton C battery construction. The 500MW/1.1GWh project will use a 400kV connection, Sungrow equipment, and H&MV Engineering-led electrical delivery.
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Chint has started construction on two German battery storage projects. The 60MWh programme covers sites in Saxony and Brandenburg, with turnkey delivery and long-term maintenance included.
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EnBW has contracted battery capacity from Zelestra’s Emilia-Romagna storage project. The four-hour agreement supports construction of a 2GWh facility, with commercial operation expected during 2028.
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Huawei has expanded its grid-forming strategy for renewable-heavy European systems. The LUTERRA platform combines battery storage, power conversion, digital control, synthetic inertia, black-start capability, voltage support, and coordinated management of generation and demand.
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Alfen and CATL will deploy sodium-ion storage across European markets. The 5GWh agreement moves the chemistry towards commercial procurement, with grid compliance, system integration, supply resilience, and operating performance likely to determine its position alongside established lithium-ion technologies.