Europe’s residential battery market entered 2026 with momentum that surprised even seasoned analysts. Installers across Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands report waiting lists stretching into the second half of the year, and homeowners who once saw storage as a luxury are now treating it as a hedge against volatile retail power prices.
Trade press and industry associations have published a flurry of figures this summer. Among the most cited:
Those figures describe very different things — one a national annual installation total, the other a cumulative European stock — and conflating them is a common error in homeowner-facing coverage. The underlying reports, available via the links below, break the numbers down by segment and country.
