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Winter 2016 European Energy Innovation 59
ENERGY TRANSITION
That equals a total storage capacity of Optimisation of Positive/negative
25 GW which is an enormous amount self-consumption control energy
compared with 7 GW of all German Peak load
pumped hydro storages. smoothing Off-grid supply
The variety of technologies is also Black-start Reactive power
reflected in the capability to transform capability compensation
electrical energy to other energy
sources, e.g. to gas by “Power-to-Gas” Voltage control Shifting excess
(PTG) or to heat by “Power-to-Heat” Inertia reserve energy to other
(PTH). By linking the different sectors, sectors
the excess electricity can be stored for Back up energy
days, weeks and months. This offers
a huge potential to augment the Nevertheless, some outstanding Source: BVES e.V., German Energy
efficiency of the whole systems and projects have been already realized so Storage Asscociation
as well to reduce carbon emissions, far, that are significantly underlining
having in mind the goals of the Paris the trend to the smart connection of
agreement. Focusing only on the generation, grid and consumption. In
electricity sector we would have to conclusion, energy storage plays a key
have a renewable share of 65% by role in the renewable concert of today
2025 in Germany, which is all but and will even more in the future. There
impossible to reach. are only a few parameters, that still
need to be adjusted to pave the way
So, as we see, there a lot of different to a sustainable level-playing field and
technologies and business models, into the market. l
that are evolving very fast. However,
the actual legal and regulatory Biography Thomas Speidel
framework in Germany is not adapted
yet to the recent developments. Thomas Speidel, graduated in Electrical Engineering at the University of
So far neither on an European nor Stuttgart, is CEO of ads-tec, a medium-sized family owned company located in
German level there exists a definition Nuertingen and Dresden. Business areas are the development and production
of storage. In most contexts energy of high-end and long-term available “Industrial IT” and “Energy Storage”
storage is assigned to the role of systems based on li-ion for Home & Small Business applications as well as for
consumption, which results to be a Industrial & Infrastructure surroundings. Through the initiatives in numerous
serious disadvantage, because the projects funded on the state and national level, ads-tec maintains close
grid-related fees are imposed for every relations to businesses and research institutions along the entire value chain.
kWh that gets stored. Since March 2016, Thomas Speidel (CEO) is president of the German Energy
Storage Association (Bundesverband Energiespeicher e.V.).
The same charges are imposed again,
when the same kWh is reaching the BVES – German Energy Storage Association
final consumer, so that we are facing
the absurd situation, that those fees The BVES is the industrial association of German energy storage companies
are charged twice. For Power-to-X the that is open to all technologies in the areas of electricity, heat and mobility. As
situation is even more tense, because a dialogue partner for politics, administration, science and publicity, BVES is
when no reconversion to electricity trying to improve the German regulation and policy framework with targeted
takes place, the full range of fees and lobbying. In addition, the BVES monitors research and development activities.
charges apply.
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