Alpiq acquires 103.5 MW German BESS in Bollingstedt

Alpiq has acquired the Bollingstedt battery energy storage system in northern Germany, according to Renews.biz. The facility carries a rated power of 103.5 MW and a storage capacity of 238 MWh. No transaction value was disclosed in the report.

The acquisition adds scale to Alpiq's German-zone portfolio at a time when short-duration storage assets are increasingly competing in aFRR and FCR markets. Bollingstedt's location in Schleswig-Holstein places it close to high wind generation nodes, reinforcing the commercial logic for fast-response storage at that site.

Elsewhere in the sector, Certain Energy landed £10m in new funding earmarked for battery technology deployment, per Renews.biz. Details on project pipeline or capacity targets were not included in the item. In Italy, Aurora Energy Research flagged that the MACSE capacity auction mechanism is positioned to materially shift the storage landscape there by 2030, though the firm's underlying figures were not available in the published summary.