The scheme totalling €17.7 billion (US$19.5 billion) will provide annual payments covering investment and operating costs for those developing, building and operating large-scale energy storage in Italy.
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Utility: Large-scale battery storage (BESS) facilities Cumulative storage capacity: 2.3 GW Developers: CIP, GCSS Cost: Undisclosed Start of construction: Before end
A render of a battery storage project from Innovo Group, which has teamed up with Iberdrola to deploy large-scale solar, wind and storage in Italy. Image: Innovo Group. The grid-scale energy storage market in Italy is set
The €5,000 boost from the Italian energy regulator has come via changes to three key parameters: the investment cost (INV), the rate of return on invested capital, and the
The 2.3 GW battery storage projects across Northern and Southern Italy by CIP and GCSS is part of the 6 projects currently featuring in CI V''s Final Investment Decision (FID).
The Danish infrastructure investor has joined hands with GCSS to develop the pipeline of large-scale, standalone battery energy storage projects across both northern and southern Italy.
Industry projections suggest these costs could decrease by up to 40% by 2030, making battery storage increasingly viable for grid-scale applications. The European market stands at a pivotal point, with several
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its Flagship Fund CI V, has entered a new partnership with Italian developer GC Storage Services (GCSS) - an operating platform set up by Ikigai Energy and Agnoli
As investment in energy infrastructure continues to grow, PE firms are turning to large-scale battery storage to solve the issue of storing intermittent energy sources.
21.9 GWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) was installed in Europe in 2024, marking the eleventh consecutive year of record breaking-installations, and bringing
The project, which operates with both sodium-sulphur and lithium-ion batteries, was approved by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development ("MiSE") in 2012, and will secure the supply of
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Energy storage is attracting record levels of investment, with €4.8 billion committed in 2023 alone for large-scale battery projects, highlighting the growing need for grid-firming capacity in support of renewables.
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Also underpinning the 2.3 GW battery storage projects across Northern and Southern Italy is renewable energy security. The project, as put in official project partnership communication, will enable “it [Italy] meet its 2030 renewable energy targets, decarbonising the power system whilst ensuring security of supply”.
Grid-scale battery storage | Cameron Murray writes about the nascent market for large-scale battery storage in Italy, which could see a massive expansion in the short term. Italy’s grid-scale energy storage market: a sleeping dragon Render of a co-located battery storage project in Italy from Innovo Group. Credit: Innovo Storage smart power
The research and analysis conducted for this report were supported by the European Climate Foundation. This report is part of a series that analyses the battery storage market in select European countries. Italy has both a rapidly growing utility-scale market as well as a flourishing customer-sited battery storage market.
The 2.3 GW battery storage projects across Northern and Southern Italy by CIP and GCSS is part of the 6 projects currently featuring in CI V’s Final Investment Decision (FID). Also read: CIP’s $3.1 bn 495 MW Fengmiao I offshore wind project in Taiwan sees progress with financial closure
The remaining 3–4 GW is expected to come from utility-scale systems. By 2050, Italy aims to achieve 30-40 GW of storage capacity. There are significant regional differences in the adoption of battery storage systems across the country.
As of November 2024 Italy had 5.1 GW / 11.7 GWh of energy storage capacity. This is almost exclusively small-scale residential system, with utility-scale storage systems providing just 864 MW. To help achieve the target for utility-scale storage build-out, the Italian government has implemented the MACSE subsidy scheme as supporting legislation.
