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Stack ‘em up: Germany’s big battery inflection point – with Thaddäus Kreisig

Stack ‘em up: Germany’s big battery inflection point – with Thaddäus Kreisig

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with Thaddäus Kreisig

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The smarter E Podcast

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For and With Creators of the New Energy World

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Germany’s utility-scale battery deployment is hitting an
inflection point.

After years of projects piling up in development pipelines,
utility-scale storage is arriving at gigawatt scale – just as
Germany’s huge solar fleet drives electricity prices towards
zero, or below, during sunny hours.

For batteries that can shift that power into higher-priced
periods, the opportunity is enormous.

Host Jonathan Gifford speaks with Thaddäus Kreisig, Principal at
Aurora Energy Research, about Germany’s forming battery boom –
and how developers are building revenue stacks to make projects
viable.

The shift is striking: more than two-thirds of solar developers
recently surveyed by Aurora said every project they plan to
deploy will be co-located with a battery system. Falling
battery-system equipment costs are strengthening the business
case, while arbitrage, ancillary services, EEG revenues, and new
financing models are opening up ways in which battery energy
storage systems can pay off.

But grid constraints remain a major hurdle. Flexible connection
agreements can restrict when batteries charge and discharge –
limiting revenues, even as energy storage could help resolve the
German energy market’s pricing peaks and troughs.

In short, Germany’s massive solar fleet has created both the need
and the opportunity for batteries. And energy storage is rapidly
shifting from optional extra to essential infrastructure – but
the route-to-market for projects certainly promises to be an
interesting ride.

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