Insights into the Energy Market

On behalf of the operator Photoseo, suena energy is optimizing a green co-located storage at its Laage site that complements an existing PV system.

The results of the 2026 Innovation Tender shows that PV-battery storage combinations are continuing to gain importance. All funding awards went to projects involving photovoltaics and storage. This underscores the focus on the concept of green co-located storage systems, which makes renewable electricity more flexible to use and is specifically incentivized through funding.

2026 will set the course for battery storage in Germany. The EEG Amendment, the Building Code (BauGB), the MiSpeL, and the AgNes open up new opportunities for green co-located storage, but also raise questions regarding revenue, grid fees, and investment security. This article outlines what operators and investors need to know now.

Germany is preparing to introduce a capacity mechanism. But the current roadmap raises key questions: which technologies will benefit, and what role can battery storage play? This article outlines the StromVKG, explains the planned auction segments and looks at what Germany can learn from other capacity markets.

suena energy is taking over the marketing of three large-scale battery storage facilities from Münch Energie. Together, the facilities have a storage capacity of approximately 300 MWh and, according to Münch Energie, constitute the largest contiguous battery storage project currently in operation in Germany. One of the three facilities being marketed is currently considered the largest co-location project with grid connection in the country.

KB.energy has developed a battery storage system that has been optimised in terms of technology and operational design. suena energy is responsible for optimizing the project.

2026 is likely to be defined less by a single ‘upheaval’ and more by a series of clearly discernible shifts that have already been building up in recent months. The following three trends show what project developers, operators, investors and marketers will need to pay particular attention to in 2026 and why technical design alone is no longer sufficient.

The innovation tenders under the German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) have established the term “green electricity storage” within the industry. If a project is awarded a contract, the support significantly improves the economic profile of a green electricity storage system; however, it becomes truly interesting where projects must be viable even without an award.