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Simon Monk

Head – Flexibility and Structured Transactions

EnBW

Simon works across European power and commodity markets covering all forms of flexible and renewable power and transition technologies including BESS and other storage.  His team works across the standalone BESS and co-located BESS/PV sector helping customers hedge and manage their flexible assets.  Prior to working with EnBW Simon spent his career in a range of corporate, investment and finance industry roles.  Simon started his career in energy project finance and progressed onto becoming a utility and infrastructure M&A banker with UBS before focussing on the energy sector.

Panel discussion

This session examines how a utility-scale solar project retrofitted or built with co-located battery storage to address curtailment, price cannibalisation, and grid constraints performs. The focus is on what changed financially and operationally once storage was added, and what the asset owner would do differently today.

  • Why storage was added?
  • Curtailment exposure, capture price erosion, or grid compliance requirements
  • How the revenue stack changed: Energy shifting, ancillary services, downside protection, and volatility reduction
  • Capital and performance outcomes: Capex uplift, IRR impact, payback period, and lessons for future hybrid projects