Featured in Search for buoyancy – 10-2017

The missing piece for Germany’s Energiewende?

World’s largest battery: Be it lead, lithium, water, or gas – there are many ways to store energy nowadays. However, the technology is often too expensive to deploy, or is at too early a stage or dependent on certain geographical conditions. In cooperation with the University of Jena, German utility company EWE plans to build the world’s largest battery storage facility using redox flow technology. Could this 120 MW battery project be the missing link for Germany’s ‘Energiewende’?

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Carl Johannes Muth

05 Oct 2017

This gas storage facility in Jemgum, northern Germany, is the proposed site for an enormous redox flow battery housed in a salt cavern.

Germany’s energy transition, or “Energiewende,” keeps on rolling, but lately the expansion of renewable generation has slowed. According to statistics provided by the German Environmental Agency (UBA), it seems certain that the country will miss its 2020 emissions reduction targets (a 40% reduction from 1990) by a mile. Last year, Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions actually …

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