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Greece has awarded €8.15 million to support 49.3 MWh of battery storage linked to commercial and industrial solar installations, under the country’s Go Beyond Solar Battery programme. The provisional awards cover 209 successful applications.
The programme, launched in January 2025, was originally budgeted at €153.7 million with a target of 333 MW of storage at C&I sites, so the provisional awards represent only a fraction of the original ambition. The subsidies apply to the storage systems rather than the associated PV installations, and also cover energy management systems and grid-connection costs.
Of the 209 supported projects, 131 will operate under net billing while the remaining 78 will use zero-feed-in arrangements, according to the ministry. The government expects the projects to help businesses raise self-consumption and lower electricity costs.
Greece’s move is part of a wider Southern European pattern of subsidising C&I storage as a way to shift solar output away from midday export peaks and into evening demand, reducing grid strain without new transmission investment.
