Featured in The fires feeding mono's rise – 11-2018

Stepping out of the dark…

With a take-up in distributed energy resources and the imperative to render the energy system of tomorrow in a decentralized fashion, energy regulators might be in for a surprise when they try to determine the true capacity and location of residential storage systems. Getting the numbers right is inevitable, but also surprisingly complex.

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Marian Willuhn

22 Nov 2018

Image: Solarwatt

This summer, at an event on the outskirts of Berlin, Solarwatt, BSW and a representative of the German government, Thomas Bareiss, inaugurated Germany’s 100,000th battery storage system. The catch: We don’t actually know if the celebrated system is number 100,000. A comprehensive list of the distributed battery systems across the country has actually never been …

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