Energy Storage Initiative Beacon Projects
The Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action Energy (BMWK), the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), and Education and Research (BMBF) have launched 60 energy storage initiative beacon projects.
As well as the beacon "power-to-gas" (which brings together projects concerned with generating hydrogen or methane from surplus wind power) and "batteries in distribution grids" (coupling battery storage with decentralized renewable energy systems) projects, research project areas include energy system analysis and thermal energy storage.
Research groups at five German universities will also receive funding In order to safeguard long-term, sustainable academic and scientific know-how for the energy system of the future. The different research groups will conduct interdisciplinary research in a number of energy storage technology areas.