News Digest Item
03 Mar 2017

“Multiple use of storages and other flexibility technologies lowers costs of energy transition”

German Energy Agency

Using power storages and other technologies to relieve the electricity grid can significantly lower the cost of the energy transition and avoid grid expansion, writes German Energy Agency (dena) in a new study. “We need a bridge between the market and the power grid. A big, new playing field for innovative products can develop this way,” said dena head Andreas Kuhlmann in a press release. The study examines how the use of flexibility technologies such as storages, load management or power-to-heat could be optimised by applying them to multiple purposes.

Read the press release in German here and the study in German here.

Also read the CLEW dossier New technologies for the Energiewende.

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