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Süddeutsche Zeitung / Die Welt Safety grid for power
Power grid operator Tennet and household power storage provider Sonnen plan to
use a network of small-scale batteries to help reduce costs caused by grid bottlenecks between Germany’s windy North and the power-hungry South, reports Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “We want to integrate renewable power in the best possible way,” Tennet board chair Urban Keussen told the newspaper.
“We can manage that not only with copper, but also with intelligence.”
Sonnen managing director Philipp Schröder said that in a first stage, 6,000 batteries would be used to optimise the power grid. Households making their batteries available for the project, which will use blockchain encryption technology, will receive free power, according to the article. Keussen told newspaper Die Welt the use of blockchain was “the first step into a new energy world.”
Find background in the CLEW factsheet Re-dispatch costs in the German power grid.
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Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungPower grid revolution
The use of batteries to level out intermittent solar and wind generation in the Tennet and Sonnen project shows that “the Energiewende is making progress,” writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “New offshore wind parks have been approved recently without a cent of eco power support, and now there is evidence for
a revolution in the German power grid. For the first time, a grid operator will get access to thousands of small decentralised power storages all over Germany.”For background on the offshore auction, read the CLEW article Operators to build offshore wind farms without support payments.
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dpa / Welt Online Transmission highway SuedLink enters next stage
The preparation procedure for building Germany’s high-voltage transmission highway SuedLink has entered a crucial stage, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Following submission of the sectoral planning application for SuedLink’s last segment in the southern federal state of Baden-Württemberg, German federal grid agency BNetzA can now start the formal approval procedure for the
800-kilometre-long power line meant to transfer electricity from Germany’s windy north to industrial centres in the south, the article says.
In a separate article on Welt Online, dpa reports that about 3,000 people forming a human chain in the central German state of Thuringia protested against SuedLink’s construction. The transmission highway made the federal state the “pack animal” of German energy policy, protesters lamented according to the article.
For more information, read the CLEW news digest entry
Merkel on grid expansion: “We’re behind it at all levels”.https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/blockchain-battery-revolution-diesel-drivers-ponder-switch