News Digest Item
07 Jul 2016

“Large battery in Brandenburg starts operations”

PV magazine

A 5-megawatt storage battery has started regular operations in Brandenburg, after a 1-year test run was completed successfully, PV magazine reports. The battery is among the biggest of its kind in Europe and has the prequalification as a network stabilising facility. The facility could substitute the balancing power provided by a 100-megawatt thermal power plant, thereby saving 20,000 tonnes of CO2 annually, operator Upside Group said.

Read the article in German here.

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