Energy Storage

»With more and more electricity being generated from highly fluctuating renewable sources, the need for cost-effective and efficient energy storage facilities is constantly growing. We intensively work on optimising them and connecting them to the electricity grid.«

Dr. Thomas Feck, Temporary Head of Division Energy Storage

The future development of the energy industry will be shaped by the further growth of renewable energies, the increased importance of decentralised power generation and of decentralised energy management, and the maintaining of network stability. The storage requirements of supply networks are increasing for a number of reasons, including the fluctuating nature of renewable energies. The mobile storage devices used in electric cars are helping by providing system services in decentralised energy management systems.

Today's battery technology is only of limited use in terms of energy density, useful life, cost and availability of resources for mobile applications. For this reason we are working intensively to develop and optimise electrochemical energy storage facilities and integrate them into our systems.

We also see a great deal of potential in the use of storage facilities in decentralised stationary applications. We are focussing our efforts in this area on reducing costs, increasing useful lives and improving how well these systems are regulated and integrated into the network.