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Featured in Factory floor – 09-2026

Taking system responsibility

A consortium in Germany is testing the use of grid-forming inverters to connect large-scale battery storage systems at the distribution grid level. Such systems can and must provide this capability at scale if renewables are to become the backbone of any region’s energy system. As part of pv magazine’s Renewables 24/7 special, Jochen Siemer takes a closer look at this project.
Jochen Siemer
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Jochen Siemer

The problem has been well known ever since serious discussions about the energy transition began: Without the large rotating mass that’s inherent to conventional power plants, a 100% renewable energy system requires an alternative solution to provide the instantaneous reserve required for frequency stabilization in the power grid. The inverters in solar, wind or battery …

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