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$365m for German battery storage and infrastructure research

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The Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) is to set up five new Helmholtz research centres for energy storage and cross-linked infrastructures with a five-year budget of $365m.

Aim of the programme is to close research gaps in the energy storage and smart grids field to meet Germany’s energy turnaround goal, the abolition of coal and other non-renewable energy sources.

KIT, SMA launch utility-scale PV storage test centres

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and SMA Solar Technology (SMA) have opened two separate utility-scale solar plants with lithium-ion battery storage in Germany.

KIT inaugurated together with its partners SolarWatt (SW) and Kostal Solar Electric (KSE) a 1MW PV plant coupled with a 100kWh lithium-ion battery storage system at its research centre in Karlsruhe. The project focuses on demonstrating and researching energy storage and grid control. The PV modules were supplied from SW and the inverters from KSE.