Portugal: Portugal has unveiled a $480 M (€400 M) investment package to modernise its electricity grid and significantly expand battery energy storage systems (BESS), following a major Iberian blackout earlier this year.
Storage provides real-time flexibility, enabling participation in balancing markets and maintaining grid stability and inertia, especially in Portugal where these markets are growing. Despite the increase in interconnection capacity between Spain and Portugal, it could experience congestions during non-solar hours.
The pursuit of economic viability by storage facility owners will inherently lead to charging during low-cost hours and discharging during hours that are more economically attractive. Storage can replace thermal generation in constraint markets, easing the grid and supporting Portugal's 2040 phase-out target.
Policy has moved just as fast. In the past 18 months Lisbon introduced a streamlined licensing code, approved €100 M in Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência grants for 43 storage projects, and is drafting a 750 MVA capacity auction to go live before January 2026.
For these reasons, energy storage has moved from being a strategic option to becoming the central pillar of power grid stability in Portugal. Currently, the main form of large-scale storage in
Looking ahead, Portugal''s experience offers valuable lessons for other nations grappling with the challenges of energy transition. The importance of grid modernization, the strategic role of
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Storage provides real-time flexibility, enabling participation in balancing markets and maintaining grid stability and inertia, especially in Portugal where these markets are growing. Despite
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Portugal: Portugal has unveiled a $480 M (€400 M) investment package to modernise its electricity grid and significantly expand battery energy storage systems (BESS), following a major
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