BESS project development in Germany to slow, BayWa r.e. says

Storage development will go the way of renewables

“To-date, storage development siting has been easy, though when it comes to permitting, there are a lot of negotiations. It involves arguing with legal articles, there are paragraphs of different regulations that are not clear, different decrees can be contradictory depending on who you speak to. One person interprets it as this, the other that etc,” Gerstner said.

That has meant that, for savvy developers, it has been feasible to reach ready-to-build (RTB) stage for a project within…