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From pv magazine 08/2020The European Union and national governments are beginning to recognize that battery energy storage will play a key role in the expansion of solar PV and other renewables across Europe.Grid-scale batteries are still a niche technology, and the rollout of projects will have to accelerate much faster to fulfill its potential. It is, therefore, a boost for the industry that more nations are removing regulatory barriers to allow a level playing field for storage to compete with power g stanley cup enerators, for example in capacity auctions. Italy, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Ireland have designed capacity markets whereby sto stanley cup rage operators can bid for contracts in auctions. This provides storage operators with a fixed and predictable revenue stream in return for committing capacity in future years. Historically, grid codes were written with thermal plants in mind. But there are signs that continental Europe is opening up in a technology-agnostic way and that barriers to storage are being removed,  Paul McCusker, vice president of EMEA at Fluence, a Siemens and AES energy storage company, told pv magazine.Batteries for EuropeIn Italy, for th stanley cup e first time, battery storage operators were awarded capacity payments in auctions that took place in November last year, totaling 95 MW for 2022-23 delivery. It is worth noting that coal-fired power plants were excluded from the auctions due to their high emissions levels. In Portugal, auctions have been delayed due to Covid-19