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STORIQ Partners · Global BESS talent intelligence

The people behind the power.

Specialist talent intelligence for the global energy storage industry. We help developers, investors and asset owners hire the leaders and specialists who develop, build and run battery storage, and help those professionals understand their market.

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Founded on three decades of executive search, and focused only on energy storage.

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Global BESS Project Radar

Where the next projects, and the next hires, are coming from

Publicly announced battery storage projects worldwide, each linked to its source and dated when last verified, with the roles each stage typically needs.

  • 27 projects tracked
  • 21.7 GWh of stated energy capacity
  • 13 countries

Newest on the Radar

  • Announced
  • Planning
  • Permitted
  • Financing
  • Construction
  • Commissioning
  • Operational
  • 2Several projects nearby
  • Pulsing ring: announced in the last 30 days
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How can we help?

Employer tool

The true cost of a bad hire

In battery storage, the wrong appointment can cost considerably more than a salary.

Lost productivity alone: £0

Professional tool

What are you worth in BESS?

Discover how your experience compares with the energy storage talent market.

Salary ranges are shown only where we hold sourced, dated data.

STORIQ Talent Index

The market behind every hire

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Observed data

7.6 GW

Operational battery capacity in Great Britain at the end of Q2 2026, against a 2030 requirement of 23 to 27 GW.

Modo Energy
Observed data

36 GWh

Battery storage installed in Europe in 2025, up 48 per cent, with 138 GWh a year forecast by 2030.

SolarPower Europe
Derived estimate

10 projects

Tracked projects in financing, construction or commissioning, the stages where delivery hiring is most intense.

Project Radar
STORIQ analysis

Grid and HV

Grid connection and high voltage commissioning skills remain among the hardest to find, in our assessment.

Talent shortages

Latest verified developments

What moved in energy storage this week

How we use these signals

Headlines link to the original publishers. STORIQ selects and classifies stories; it does not write or alter them.

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Disciplines and solutions

Specialist hiring across the storage lifecycle

Disciplines we recruit

Methodology

Intelligence you can check

Every figure on this site states whether it is published data, our own calculation or our professional judgement, and links to its source. We never present an estimate as market data, and we never publish a project, salary or vacancy we cannot evidence.

  • Observed data

    Published data from a cited source, dated.

  • Derived estimate

    Calculated by STORIQ from tracked, sourced data, with the method shown.

  • STORIQ analysis

    Our professional judgement, labelled as such.

The people a project needs change at every stage

  1. Origination

    Site judgement, landowner relationships and the discipline to stop weak projects early.

  2. Consent

    Planning strategy, community engagement and management of specialist advisers.

  3. Grid

    Connection strategy, readiness evidence and years of milestone obligations.

  4. Finance

    Capital raising, revenue strategy, floors and tolls, and investor confidence.

  5. Build

    Programme control, contractor management, safety duties and commissioning.

  6. Operate

    Availability, trading oversight, warranties and the asset's whole life.

Read: why leadership needs change at each project stage

STORIQ Insights

Analysis for people building the storage economy

All insights

We do not measure value by the number of CVs sent. We measure it by the quality of the decision.

  • Three decadesof senior recruitment and executive search behind every assignment.
  • Storage onlyOne industry, so we know its people, projects and pressures.
  • Led personallyDeliberately few assignments at a time, each led by the founder.

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