The Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) market in Europe is currently valued at €15 bn and is expected to reach €38 bn by 2035.
This market has been experiencing record growth in the past year, particularly in the utility-scale and C&I sectors which are now outpacing residential. Policy support, growing renewable integration, cheaper batteries, and strong investor appetite are driving this expansion.
At SGT25 Paris we have introduced an entire conference track on Energy Storage to help utilities explore how they can leverage BESS as a service more cost-effectively, as well as how they can go through the derogation process in order to own, control and maintain BESS assets directly.
Just some of the case-studies that will be shared include:
✅ BESS Regulation – mapping out the current regulation on battery usage for power grid operators, clarifying the exceptions, and evolving the parameters to better support the needs of grid operators through energy storage solutions
✅ Large-Scale, Long-Duration Batteries – meeting the demands of high-renewable grids through emerging battery technologies such as LAES, Flow Batteries, CAES, Gravity Storage, Advanced Hybrid among others
✅ BESS as a Service – overcoming the technical, operational, and digital integration hurdles to leveraging energy storage as a service to support congestion management
✅ Derogation Procedure – clarifying EU regulatory procedures, implementing comprehensive market testing and robust needs assessment, creating transparent documentation and ongoing compliance, to justify the investment in owning storage assets
✅ Transmission System Integration – complying with national grid codes to drive network reliability and efficiency through the ownership and operation of grid-scale energy storage systems as renewables generation increases
✅ Distribution System Integration – integrating energy storage solutions into distribution networks to support the local flexibility and grid stability objectives of the grid code
✅ Grid Connection & Siting – maximising system value, minimising risk, and ensuring regulatory compliance to meet congestion management needs
✅ Monitoring & Control – bridging the gap in monitoring and control of energy storage solutions owned and operated by grid operators versus that leveraged as a service through flexibility partners
✅ Reliability & Safety – overcoming thermal runaway risks, degradation, insufficient system integration, and monitoring shortfalls to ensure safety of energy storage solutions
✅ Lifecycle Management – maximising lifecycle through proactive planning, robust monitoring, adaptive operational strategies, and strict regulatory compliance from deployment to end-of-life
✅ AI Driven Management – leveraging advanced analytics, machine learning, and automation, to drive improvements in performance, reliability, cost-efficiency and renewable integration
✅ Forecasting – overcoming the complexity of producing accurate forecasts for flexibility, dispatch, and system balancing when leveraging energy storage as a service
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