Will Holden build more battery energy storage centres?

Holden is talking about proposals to build more battery energy storage system (Bess) centres - large-scale power storage sites based on the same lithium-ion batteries that are used in laptops and electric cars. The batteries are stored, thousands together, in large metal boxes.

Is the EU a single market for battery energy storage?

"It is all organised on a national level, which means that the EU is not actually a single market as it's meant to be for battery energy storage systems. And that's one of the reasons that big deployments are going a bit slower than they should be."

Is battery storage a bad policy?

"Simply put, it is not just a bad policy, but a dangerous one, and the city is literally playing with fire by allowing this to happen." Holden is talking about proposals to build more battery energy storage system (Bess) centres - large-scale power storage sites based on the same lithium-ion batteries that are used in laptops and electric cars.

Should we increase battery deployments in the EU?

"For the moment, in the European Union, what we are looking at is that we should increase battery deployments by a factor of 10," says Driese Acke, deputy chief executive of SolarPower Europe. While there's currently around 75 gigawatt-hours of battery storage installed in the EU, he says that needs to rise to around 750 by 2030.

Should we increase battery deployments by a factor of 10?

And that's where Bess come in. "For the moment, in the European Union, what we are looking at is that we should increase battery deployments by a factor of 10," says Driese Acke, deputy chief executive of SolarPower Europe.