We hear from Christina Hepp, strategy director at battery energy storage system (BESS) owner-operator Green Flexibility, on the big successes and challenges in the German market today.
Hepp will be speaking at the Energy Storage Summit at The Battery Show Europe, in Stuttgart, Germany next week (9-11 June), and gave us this Q&A on the big picture topics in the country in the lead-up to this event....
The German energy storage market’s evolution reflects a broader tension between technological promise and regulatory inertia. At its strongest, the narrative highlights storage’s transition from a subsidized experiment to a market-driven infrastructure asset, a rare success in energy policy. Yet beneath this progress lies a web of unresolved complexities—grid fees, FCAs, and BKZ interactions—that reveal a system struggling to adapt to decentralized, flexible assets. The regulatory delays and inc...