Energy Storage Europe

Energy Storage Europe welcomes the Industrial Accelerator Act as an important step towards strengthening European industrial capacity and accelerating decarbonisation. However, in its current form, some of its provisions create legal uncertainty that risks undermining storage deployment rather than supporting it.

EASE - The European Association for Energy Storage (EASE) welcomes the European Commissions efforts to modernise the EU grid regulatory framework through the European Grids Package. As Europe moves toward an increasingly decentralised, electrified, and decarbonised energy system, the role of flexibilityparticularly energy storagemust be central in both policy and grid planning.

Europes Industrial competitiveness relies on cheap energy. Europes industry remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels, particularly gas, creating high exposure to fossil price volatility. Focusing on competitive electrification (i.e. an electrification aimed at reducing operational costs) brings significant business benefits to a wide array of industries, even those with partially electrified processes.

Europe's heating and cooling sector remains highly dependent on fossil fuels, particularly natural gas, leaving industries and heating networks vulnerable to energy price volatility and supply disruptions. While electricity is increasingly used in heating and cooling applications, its potential for EU decarbonisation remains largely underutilised.

Energy Storage Europe welcomes the European Commissions efforts to update the Regulation on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, which ensures the achievement of the Energy Union's 2030 and long-term objectives and targets, in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement.

The revised Network Code for Generators (RfG 2.0) represents a genuine advance to a framework suited to a decentralised, storage-driven system; even so, Energy Storage Europe considers that its implementation for bidirectional storage assets requires further clarification before it can offer the sector the technical certainty it needs.

The wording of Article 4(2) and Annex III, Part A, point VIII, refers to hazardous substances contained in batteries. The Implementing Act should instead align with the Environmental Omnibus proposal (COM(2025) 981), which refers to Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC).

The European Association for Energy Storage (EASE) welcomes that in the REPowerEU plan, the European Commission recognises that energy storage plays a key role in ensuring security of supply and supporting renewables integration, reducing the need for polluting gas power plants. EASE welcomes the provisions that aim at boosting energy storage deployment, e.g. through investments and better permitting.