BBDF 2025’s “From Solar to BESS: Moving from PV Project Development to BESS With and Without Co-location,” has shown the potential for creating new business modules in the renewable energy business via the so-called hybrid power purchase agreements and the co-location of wind and solar energy assets with battery storage.


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The final session of the Battery Business & Development Forum 2025, held this week in Frankfurt, Germany, showed the increasing interest across the European battery storage landscape in co-located projects.

“Around 80% of the market is dominated by standalone systems. But this is expected to change going forward,” said the session’s moderator and Director of ESS News, Marija Maisch. “Due to the growing number of hours with negative electricity prices in some key European energy markets, however, standalone battery projects are losing ground. But this is not necessarily bad news for project developers.”

Hybrid power purchase agreements (PPAs), although still uncharted territory, offer the advantage of combining wind, solar, and battery storage.

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