Unlocking Article 6 finance for battery energy storage: Carbon market pathways, bankability, and the future of grid-scale storage investment

Monday, September 21, 2026

Battery energy storage is a key consideration within the clean energy transition, but many projects, particularly in emerging markets, cannot reach bankability on existing revenue streams alone.

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement offers a potential solution: new carbon-market pathways that could provide additional revenue visibility for developers, lenders, and investors. The challenge is designing structures that satisfy additionality, measurement, and risk-allocation standards across jurisdictions.

DLA Piper hosted this event during Climate Week NYC, bringing together developers, financiers, carbon-market professionals, corporate buyers, and policymakers to explore pathways for channeling Article 6 finance into battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.

Drawing on DLA Piper’s global BESS report, Capital Unlocks Capacity, the session examined market trends and practical transaction structures – exploring how project-level crediting, blended finance, and advance-purchase commitments can meet additionality standards and deliver bankable carbon revenues.

Location

DLA Piper
1251 Avenue of the Americas
27th Floor
New York, NY 10020

For more information

Please contact Jacquelin Wong with questions.