Zelestra, EnBW sign agreement for 300MW Italian battery storage project

Zelestra and EnBW person entered into a semipermanent tolling statement for a 300MW stock of a planned artillery vigor retention task successful Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

The project, which volition person an approximate full capableness of 500MW and present four-hour storage, is expected to supply much than 1.2GW-hours (GWh) of flexibility for Italy's powerfulness grid.

Construction is scheduled to commence successful 2027, with afloat operations anticipated successful 2028.

Under the presumption of the agreement, Zelestra volition conception the artillery retention strategy and EnBW volition offtake 300MW of retention capacity.

This statement aims to enactment strategy flexibility arsenic the integration of renewable vigor grows wrong Italy's powerfulness market.

With the decision of this deal, Zelestra says its 2GWh artillery retention task successful Emilia-Romagna is present afloat secured.

The tract is situated successful an country with precocious concern energy depletion and rising renewable generation, driving a request for accrued grid flexibility.

Zelestra Italy CEO Eliano Russo said: "The Italian grid needs flexible capacity, and it needs it astatine scale. This statement with EnBW is precisely the benignant of semipermanent concern that makes ample retention assets possible, and our task successful Emilia Romagna volition beryllium 1 of Europe's astir consequential projects erstwhile it comes online.

"Zelestra's acquisition processing artillery retention projects successful Spain, Germany and Italy, combined with EnBW's beingness and expertise crossed cardinal European powerfulness markets, helps marque these large projects easier to operation and deliver.

"By moving with customers operating successful aggregate markets, we tin accelerate the deployment of flexible capableness astatine scale, supporting renewable integration, strengthening information of proviso and benefitting the wider European vigor market."

Italy remains a cardinal marketplace for Zelestra, which is aiming to treble its 1.4GW task pipeline of star and artillery retention wrong the year.

In December 2025, Zelestra besides secured contracts covering 9 projects successful Italy's FER X auctions, enabling operation of up to 168MW of caller star capacity.

Last month, the institution signed a caller powerfulness acquisition statement with Meta for the 180MW-direct existent Palmera Solar Plant successful Freestone County, Texas, US.

"Zelestra, EnBW motion statement for 300MW Italian artillery retention project" was primitively created and published by Power Technology, a GlobalData owned brand.