ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the energy storage policies and legal regimes of countries/regions that have successfully promoted energy storage, and to identify the key elements that facilitate the deployment of energy storage within the energy community. It focuses on battery energy storage systems (BESS) instead of other cheaper storage systems, such as pump hydropower. Many countries around the world have set ambitious targets for increasing the share of renewables in their energy mix. Energy Community contracting parties now try to follow EU’s national energy and climate plans to presently prepare their own. In energy community contracting parties, traditional pump hydropower would be in a better position to be integrated into policy. The chapter focuses on the instrument contributing to the real deployment of BESS but does not discuss regulation regimes, such as licencing. Tax incentives can be used to provide additional support for BESS deployment.
