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Sandra Enkhardt
Sandra is News Director of pv magazine Deutschland. She has been reporting on solar since 2008.
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Germany’s 50Hertz opens up reactive power market to renewables, battery storage
With regulator the Federal Network Agency requiring grid companies to tender for the provision of the reactive power needed to maintain network voltage, electricity transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz has stolen a lead on its rivals.
Varta emerges from restructuring procedure with fresh capital
The German battery manufacturer now has two new indirect shareholders: Porsche and Austrian entrepreneur Michael Tojner. They are providing financing totaling €120 million. Furthermore, Varta has significantly reduced its debt to €230 million, according to the company’s statement. With this, the company's restructuring procedure has now been completed.
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Batteries key to German solution to grid capacity constraints
The grid connection "feed-in socket" planned by two German power companies involves "grid-neutral" batteries not using network capacity during periods when solar and wind parks connected to the same socket are feeding in large amounts of electricity.
‘EU aim of 90% European batteries by 2030 is way off’
European battery cell demand could hit 1 TWh per year by 2030 so domestic manufacturing capacity is vital to avoid dependence on Asia. Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) says the European Union's 90% local battery target will be missed in half of its modeled scenarios.
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