Secure Battery Storage with Artificial Intelligence

As merchant and PPA revenues decline amid negative price trends and falling capture rates, auctions and Contracts for Difference (CfDs) are regaining strategic importance for large-scale solar and storage projects. CfDs remain the backbone of renewable financing, providing price certainty and lowering capital costs. At the same time, auction models must evolve to incentivize flexibility and prevent grid congestion. New EU rules permit non-price criteria in tenders and other publicprocurement processes in order to strengthen resilience and support EU supply chains. This session examines how auctions and CfDs can secure clean capacity, integrate storage and reinforce Europe's energy security and competitiveness.Key topics:Auctions / CfDs in a low capture price environmentEuropean auction landscape overviewIncentivizing flexibility and storage  Non-price criteria and resilience requirements The role of auctions in energy security and industrial policy 

Despite rising volatility and more frequent negative price events, the evolving European PPA landscape still offers new opportunities. Hybrid solar-plus-storage contracts are becoming a key strategy for generating value in evolving power markets. By enabling an energy supply that is more easily adjustable to demand profiles, these contracts help companies to align low-cost renewable supply with consumption profiles more effectively. This means offering 24/7 decarbonization strategies while developers unlock additional revenue streams through flexibility and market optimization.This session will address:Regulatory and contractual frameworks enabling next-generation PPAs  Using storage to turn market volatility and negative prices into opportunityStructuring solar-plus-storage PPAs: firming, shaping and flexibility products   Innovative pricing models and credit solutions for bankable contracts 

Despite rising volatility and more frequent negative price events, the evolving European PPA landscape still offers new opportunities. Hybrid solar-plus-storage contracts are becoming a key strategy for generating value in evolving power markets. By enabling an energy supply that is more easily adjustable to demand profiles, these contracts help companies to align low-cost renewable supply with consumption profiles more effectively. This means offering 24/7 decarbonization strategies while developers unlock additional revenue streams through flexibility and market optimization.This session will address:Regulatory and contractual frameworks enabling next-generation PPAs  Using storage to turn market volatility and negative prices into opportunityStructuring solar-plus-storage PPAs: firming, shaping and flexibility products   Innovative pricing models and credit solutions for bankable contracts 

Despite rising volatility and more frequent negative price events, the evolving European PPA landscape still offers new opportunities. Hybrid solar-plus-storage contracts are becoming a key strategy for generating value in evolving power markets. By enabling an energy supply that is more easily adjustable to demand profiles, these contracts help companies to align low-cost renewable supply with consumption profiles more effectively. This means offering 24/7 decarbonization strategies while developers unlock additional revenue streams through flexibility and market optimization.This session will address:Regulatory and contractual frameworks enabling next-generation PPAs  Using storage to turn market volatility and negative prices into opportunityStructuring solar-plus-storage PPAs: firming, shaping and flexibility products   Innovative pricing models and credit solutions for bankable contracts 

Despite rising volatility and more frequent negative price events, the evolving European PPA landscape still offers new opportunities. Hybrid solar-plus-storage contracts are becoming a key strategy for generating value in evolving power markets. By enabling an energy supply that is more easily adjustable to demand profiles, these contracts help companies to align low-cost renewable supply with consumption profiles more effectively. This means offering 24/7 decarbonization strategies while developers unlock additional revenue streams through flexibility and market optimization.This session will address:Regulatory and contractual frameworks enabling next-generation PPAs  Using storage to turn market volatility and negative prices into opportunityStructuring solar-plus-storage PPAs: firming, shaping and flexibility products   Innovative pricing models and credit solutions for bankable contracts