13 November 2025

Brussels, BELGIUM : 13 November 2025, SolarPower Europe releases a flagship publication ‘Flexibility: Strengthening the Grid with Battery Storage and Demand Response’ alongside hosting a dedicated Flexibility Strategy Day, bringing together EU policymakers, regulators, system operators, and industry leaders in solar and storage.The position paper and the event come at a crucial moment for Europe’s energy transition.

The message is clear: Europe must dramatically scale up energy system flexibility to meet its energy security, competitiveness and climate goals. With electricity demand expected to rise by 50% by 2030, flexibility is now essential to integrate rapidly growing renewable generation into the system, prevent congestion and curtailment, and balance variations in supply and demand.

Flexible solutions can deliver major benefits for Europe by 2030, including lowering electricity prices by up to 25%*, saving around €130 billion in avoided fossil fuel imports, and preventing 151 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions every year.

Yet the EU lacks a coordinated strategy to unlock this flexibility potential. The new recommendations set out a clear path to achieve this, centered on three main pillars:

1. Take a flexibility-first approach to grid development

2. Unlock the full potential of demand response

3. Embrace the opportunity of battery storage to multiply EU battery storage capacity x10 by 2030

Dries Acke, Deputy CEO of SolarPower Europe (he/him), said: “It is clear to all that flexibility is the central challenge for Europe’s energy system. To integrate more renewables, protect consumers from price volatility and make the best use of our grids, Europe must plan and invest with flexibility in mind, scaling demand response, and embracing the game-changing opportunity of low cost and high performing battery storage. What we need now is comprehensive, forward-looking action on flexibility from policymakers.”

Catarina Augusto, Head of System Integration at SolarPower Europe and Lead Author (she/her) added: “Europe needs a coherent roadmap to integrate flexibility everywhere.Unlocking demand response means giving all consumers, households, businesses, and industry fair access to energy markets, so they can actively participate and be rewarded for their flexibility. Alongside scaling battery storage, these steps are essential for delivering the flexibility Europe needs. That is why we are calling for an EU Flexibility Strategy, supported by a Battery Storage Action Plan, so policymakers can act now to future-proof our energy system.”