The Commission's European Energy Storage Inventory can help address this gap within Europe. Launched in March 2025, it is the first European-level tool of its kind, providing a real-time dashboard of energy storage levels in Europe, offering energy storage data across a full range of technologies.
Compared to classic renewables, energy storage has really only become an investable asset in Europe over the last few years on the back of technology advances, market price signals, and government support mechanisms.
In Europe, the capacity of renewable energy sources is growing very rapidly, while traditional power plants are slowly being decommissioned. That's creating a unique new opportunity for investors amid the emerging demand for battery storage, which provides balance to electricity markets.
For short-duration energy storage assets, there are really three key revenue streams for energy storage assets in Europe. The first one is capacity payments, which have become a broadly implemented policy measure by governments to support system reliability and incentivize the installation of certain new power asset types.
Overall, market research such as BloombergNEF predicts that grid-scale energy storage in Europe will increase to about 375 gigawatts in 2050 from 15 gigawatts last year.
46 GW capacity of pumped storage hydropower is installed in the EU, amounting to almost a quarter of the total global installed capacity. Furthermore, from 2019 to 2021, EU companies were responsible for 29% of high value hydropower inventions globally.
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