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The Battery 2030+ large-scale research initiative will gather leading scientists in Europe, as well as the industry, to achieve a leap forward in battery science and technology. The first Battery 2030+ project kicks off in March 2019 and will lay the basis for this large-scale research initiative on future battery technologies.

2018 was a turning point for energy storage policy at the European level, with major pieces of legislation being approved by the European institutions. EASE policy team has worked hard to ensure that the European regulatory framework evolves in a way that allows storage to have a strong business case and achieve its full potential to support the energy transition.

The EASE Secretariat has been working on the Clean Energy for All Europeans package since it was proposed by the European Commission in 2016. The final agreement was reached in December 2018 by the two co-legislators, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, and represents a great success for EASE.

HYDROPOWER EUROPE, a multipartner initiative supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, is a three-year long EU funded project that aims to gather input from the European hydropower community in order to agree upon common Research and Innovation priorities for the sector in Europe.

On the 17 January 2019, SMARTSPEND project partners met in Brussels to kick off SMARTSPEND. Running until December 2021, the 3-year-project will explore how investments in R&D in clean energy can be made in a coordinated way and how they may be increased.

2018 was a great year for energy storage, with enormous progress for the community and EASE, and this positive trend is surely coming to stay in the years ahead. Since its establishment in 2011, EASE has gone through several different stages, mirroring in many ways the broader developments of the storage sector.