{"id":57204,"date":"2026-06-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/eu-battery-capacity-doubled-summer-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:38:39","slug":"eu-battery-capacity-doubled-summer-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/eu-battery-capacity-doubled-summer-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"EU battery capacity doubled in a year as solar added more than 90 GW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission summarised ENTSO-E&#8217;s Summer Outlook 2026 with two connected findings: solar capacity had risen by more than 90 GW compared with the previous summer, and installed battery capacity had doubled over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>More variable generation increases the need for flexible consumption. Batteries shift electricity to a later time. Controllable thermal storage can absorb local surplus when an electrical battery is full or when storing the next kilowatt-hour as electricity is uneconomic.<\/p>\n<h2>Design storage and control as one system<\/h2>\n<p>Start with a measured load profile and a realistic photovoltaic-surplus curve. Choose usable storage capacity, charging power and control logic together; buying those three parts separately often produces a system that is large on paper but poorly matched in operation.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"wt-article-shop-links\">\n<h2>Put the article into practice<\/h2>\n<p>Compare model-specific specifications, availability and delivery information without leaving WodaTherm\u2122.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/product-category\/bateriova-uloziste\/\">Explore battery storage<\/a> <a class=\"wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/product-category\/tepelna-akumulace\/\">Explore thermal storage<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"wt-source-note\"><strong>Primary source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.ec.europa.eu\/news\/commission-welcomes-entso-e-report-confirming-eu-electricity-preparedness-summer-2026-05-29_en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy<\/a> \u00b7 source language: English \u00b7 published: 2026-05-29. This is an original WodaTherm\u2122 briefing, not a copy of the source publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU summer outlook links rapid solar growth with a doubling of installed battery capacity and a growing need for flexible electrical and thermal loads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":57710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2755],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-storage-news"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57711,"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57204\/revisions\/57711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}