{"id":34344,"date":"2016-10-27T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-30T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T14:44:09","slug":"9344-power-storage-a-fix-for-the-german-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/business\/9344-power-storage-a-fix-for-the-german-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Power storage \u2013 a fix for the German energy transition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier <a>this month<\/a>, Germany\u2019s biggest commercial battery power plant broke ground on an expansion that will triple its capacity. Owned by WEMAG, a municipal utility that generates its own power from renewables and natural gas, it works to balance out supply and demand on the power transmission grid.<\/p>\n<p>When it was first commissioned in 2014, the 5-megawatt (MW) plant in the northern&nbsp;German city of Schwerin was the biggest project of its kind in Europe. That a German facility had this honour seems fitting given the country\u2019s reputation for technological competence and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/7085-Germany-s-renewables-paradox-a-warning-sign-for-China\">efforts to switch to a greener energy supply<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But growth of battery storage in Germany is lagging behind other countries. The company that built the Schwerin plant, Younicos, sees bigger opportunities in places like the UK and Texas, where the regulatory framework is better designed to reward storage facilities, it says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGermany is a difficult market for grid-scale battery projects because the regulation \u2013 unlike in other countries \u2013 is not favourable to storage,\u201d says Younicos spokesperson Philip Hiersemenzel. \u201cStorage does not get rewarded for the speed and precision, and value, that it brings to the entire system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Battery storage makes inroads <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/detail.php?id=26372\">almost a third of the power<\/a> consumed in Germany came from renewables. But integrating electricity from fluctuating sources into a grid that is still reliant on fossil fuels remains a tough task and a barrier to a completely clean and efficient network.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike conventional thermal power plants that can produce electricity according to demand, wind and solar installations are at the mercy of the weather. Sometimes, the wind farms in Germany\u2019s gusty northern states produce so much power they have to be disconnected to prevent overload. At other times, production falls far short of demand and fossil-fuelled power fills the gap.<\/p>\n<p>Plants like the one in Schwerin offer a potential solution. They sell frequency control services to transmission grid operators (TSOs) to keep the grid stable \u2013 a role traditionally left to conventional power plants \u2013 but with vastly improved flexibility, response times and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>A boom in home storage systems could also help. Since Germany introduced feed-in tariffs guaranteeing above-market prices for renewable power, millions of Germans have installed PV solar panels on their roofs and, increasingly, these come with batteries attached. When aggregated, these small-scale systems can also help to stabilise the grid. Power company LichtBlick, for example, has teamed up with Tesla to network multiple home systems into a \u201cvirtual power plant\u201d that can provide frequency control \u2013 or sell power in bulk at times of higher energy prices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peak prices remain elusive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Still, for storage facilities to make money on the wholesale power market, there must be a significant difference between low prices when there is an oversupply \u2013 for example in windy weather or during sunny hours \u2013 and high prices when production drops.<\/p>\n<p>This year the German government approved electricity market reforms to allow for higher peak power prices. In the long term, this could make storage solutions more commercially attractive. But Simon G\u00f6\u00df of Berlin-based consultancy Energy Brainpool says the country\u2019s high conventional power capacity means that these troughs and peaks do not occur very often.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still have a lot of conventional power plants on the grid which are not flexible enough to change if power prices change. This means you don\u2019t have prolonged periods of high or low power prices as of now,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>That could change once the last nuclear power plants go offline, taking a large chunk of base load power out of the market and leading to more price \u201cspiking\u201d, adds G\u00f6\u00df. \u201cThat is where storage could earn money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Too much wind \u2013 or too much coal?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even once Germany has fulfilled its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/5232-How-Germany-learned-to-hate-nuclear-power\">pledge to close all of its nuclear plants<\/a>, it will still have plenty of conventional power stations. Coal provided for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/detail.php?id=26372\">over 40% of German electricity consumption in 2015<\/a>. Despite high-level debate and pressure from green groups, the country has yet to put solid plans in place to phase it out.<\/p>\n<p>The argument for keeping coal-fired plants online is that their steady supply of power is needed to keep the lights on when production from renewables is low. But critics of the approach say these plants \u2013 which need to keep running at all times \u2013 hold back the development of a greener, more flexible power system.<\/p>\n<p>The overload on the grid, the argument goes, is not because there is too much renewable power but too much inflexible lignite power than can\u2019t be shut down when renewable production goes up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no classical power plant that can follow these very quick changes. For this we need different storage components&nbsp;and not any more the base load power plants,\u201d says Werner Beba of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New technologies, new regulation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beba is working on a pilot project using lithium-ion battery facilities to store energy from a wind farm in northern Germany, part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.new4-0.de\/\">wider research project<\/a> designed to explore solutions for a renewable-based energy system and help the government create better legislation.<\/p>\n<p>As well as batteries, the team is experimenting with other storage methods, such as converting electricity into gas, which allows renewable energy to be stored on a bigger scale and for longer, explains Beba. Smart grids, which would allow power-generation and storage facilities to respond to supply and demand, are also being tested.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a more flexible, integrated and intelligent energy system will ultimately require better regulation than Germany\u2019s current Renewable Energy Act, says G\u00f6\u00df. Some positive steps have been taken in recent years. Amendments to the act, due to come into force next year, exempt certain types of storage from a charge to cover the cost of feed-in tariffs, for example. Lawmakers are also discussing a change to Germany\u2019s interpretation of EU regulations that currently prevent transmission grid operators from investing directly in storage facilities.<\/p>\n<p>But there is still a long way to go. Critics point to perverse elements in the updated Renewable Energy Act, such as measures to limit the growth of renewables so as not to overload the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Beba argues that real progress will come when Germany gets serious about shifting the fundamental structure of the energy system away from conventional power generation. That means action on coal. \u201cThe government understandably wants to ensure we don\u2019t have a blackout situation,\u201d he says. \u201cBut on the other hand a political decision is needed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial battery plants could support Germany\u2019s rapidly expanding renewable power production, but proponents say lawmakers must act to make them viable, writes Ruby Russell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2323,"featured_media":59039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[758,757],"tags":[547,585],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-34344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-energy","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-renewables"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) 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