further accelerate through 2030 as utility-scale projects lead growth, the SolarPower Europe association said in a new report on Tuesday.
Last year, the European battery storage market saw 36 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of new installations, up by 48% from 2024, when growth had slowed.
Installations rebounded strongly in 2025, and are set to continue accelerating. This year, annual installations are expected to top 50 GWh, SolarPower Europe said. The annual pace of new additions is then projected to jump to as much as 138 GWh in 2030, which would be a fourfold surge compared to 2025.
In the European Union, battery capacity is expected to jump six-fold by 2030 to reach 470 GWh by 2030, according to SolarPower Europe.
Yet, this would be below the 600 GWh SolarPower Europe has estimated the EU needs to align with its energy security, competitiveness, and decarbonization objectives.
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“Europe’s battery market is moving in the right direction, but we are not yet where we need to be,” said Walburga Hemetsberger, CEO of SolarPower Europe.
In 2025, Europe’s three top battery storage markets, Germany, UK, and Italy, consolidated their leading positions in Europe, while Ukraine and Bulgaria – with the fastest growth – emerged to complete the top 5 markets across all Europe.
Overall, the top 5 markets accounted for 62% of all installations in Europe in 2025, while the top markets delivered almost 80% of yearly deployment in 2024.
“This underlines that that Europe’s battery storage expansion is diversifying, with a larger contribution from smaller markets,” SolarPower Europe said.
Europe’s renewables-plus-batteries market is also set to soar in the coming years, Aurora Energy Research said in a report last month.
Capacity installations of renewable energy co-located with batteries for storage are expected to surge in Europe from 6 gigawatts in 2025 to as much as 35 GW by 2030. Aurora Energy Research examined developments in 20 European markets in terms of attractiveness for co-location, and identified Germany, Great Britain, and Bulgaria as Europe’s most attractive co-location investment markets.
By Michael Kern for Oilprice.com
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