The challenges facing island grids, even in sunny regions such as Greece and Southeast Europe, require careful planning and intelligent energy management. Markets such as Greece and Cyprus are already facing periods of solar curtailment, while rising renewable penetration is increasing the need for flexibility. Battery energy storage systems (BESS) can store excess solar generation and dispatch it when it is needed. BESS and microgrid configurations can provide much-needed flexible power and system resilience in remote locations, as well as in congested urban centres where commercial users depend on backup power to maintain critical operations.
Join us for this pv magazine Webinar to explore the difference a reliable energy storage strategy can make for markets such as Greece.
Dimitrios Fytros, founder and CEO of POWERFOR, will provide the market and policy perspective on Greece’s renewable energy transition, including the growing need for flexibility, curtailment, recent policy developments and their implications for C&I users, islands and the wider electricity system.
Aris Georgopoulos, Country Director Greece at CESC GmbH, will add a local market perspective on what customers, EPCs and project developers are asking for in Greece and Southeast Europe.
Neo Xu, Executive Manager & Business Partner – Sales & Product Development, CESC Innovation GmbH, will move from these market needs to practical C&I storage solutions. He will explain how CESC’s Mercury 261 Hybrid can support islands, resorts, microgrids, existing PV retrofits and resilience-driven applications, and how Mercury 418 addresses medium-to-large C&I and industrial projects. The discussion will focus on practical project requirements and will briefly extend to utility-scale storage and its role in renewable integration and grid flexibility.
Yu (Yeky) Peijia, Assistant to Chairman, CESC GmbH, will provide brief context on CESC and the company’s perspective on the evolving energy storage market in Greece and Southeast Europe.
Questions for this webinar can be submitted when registering or in the chat during the live webinar.
pv magazine Webinar Content:
- Latest Greek market and policy developments
- Grid flexibility, curtailment and renewable energy integration
- C&I storage opportunities in Greece and Southeast Europe
- Energy storage for islands, resorts and microgrids
- Retrofit, backup power and practical project requirements
- Mercury 261 Hybrid and Mercury 418 storage solutions
- Brief outlook on utility-scale storage and grid resilience
- Live Q&A
This webinar will be moderated by pv magazine Features Editor Blathnaid O’Dea.
Registration for this webinar is free of charge.
Speakers
Dimitrios Fytros is the Founder and CEO of POWERFOR, with extensive experience in the energy sector. His work focuses on energy-cost strategy for large companies and industrial customers, combining electricity-market expertise with commercial negotiation and long-term energy planning. Through POWERFOR, he works across electricity supply, power purchase agreements (PPAs) and risk management, renewable self-generation and battery energy storage (BESS).
Aris Georgopoulos is Country Director for Greece at CESC, leading the company’s growth in the Greek market and supporting its strategic expansion across Southeast Europe, with a focus on energy storage, market development and strategic partnerships.
Prior to joining CESC, he served as Economic & Commercial Advisor at the Consulate General of Greece in Shanghai, under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic, where he worked on international trade, investment promotion and Greek-Chinese business relations.
He holds an MSc in Finance & Investment from the University of Edinburgh.
Neo Xu focuses on the development and commercialization of energy storage solutions, connecting product design with real market and customer requirements. With experience in sales strategy, business development and product development, he works across C&I and larger-scale energy storage applications, helping translate technical capabilities into practical project solutions.
Yu Peijia works with European utilities, EPCs and project developers to translate battery energy storage requirements into practical system solutions. His focus is on aligning technical design, system performance and project execution, helping storage projects meet their operational, delivery and commercial objectives.
Moderator
Blathnaid is Features Editor with pv magazine Global. Prior to joining the team in 2024, she specialized in writing feature-length articles about STEM careers. She also covered news, including some of Ireland’s renewable energy announcements over the past few years.
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