BEST Magazine
24 March 2026
Grid bottlenecks will stall Europe’s battery storage rollout, industry warns
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Grid connection delays are the single biggest barrier to deploying battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Europe, according to delegates at Tamarindo’s inaugural Investing in Battery Energy Storage conference in London. An overwhelming 98% of attendees identified grid connection delays as the main execution bottleneck constraining deployable capital, highlighting mounting pressure on electricity networks as…
Key Takeaways
- • Grid bottlenecks will stall Europe’s battery storage rollout, industry warns.
