- A solar-plus-storage project has been commissioned in Saxony, Germany, the first in the state from the recent ‘innovation tenders’ to do so.
- A media statement added that a subsidy-free green power purchase agreement (PPA) with a fixed term and a fixed price was concluded with the funding partner Umweltbank.
A solar-plus-storage project has been commissioned in Saxony, Germany, the first in the state from the recent ‘innovation tenders’ to do so. The project pairs a 13.5MWp solar PV array with a 3.7MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) from Intilion, the lithium-ion energy storage arm of the Hoppecke battery company.
The companies claimed that the project is the first in the state from the Federal Network Agency’s innovation tenders for co-located projects connecting to the Saxony grid. The tender, which took place in two lots in early and late 2021, saw around 400MW of energy storage capacity awarded contracts.
The contracts allow asset owners to receive a fixed Eurocents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) sum in addition to their market-based revenues. But they require the energy storage portion to only charge from the renewables. Priestewitz Mayor Manuela Gajewi said, “The construction of new photovoltaic systems and wind power should not be the only goal for the expansion of renewable energy: more efficient systems, the expansion of the distribution grid and the development of efficient energy storage solutions must be the focus.”
A media statement added that a subsidy-free green power purchase agreement (PPA) with a fixed term and a fixed price was concluded with the funding partner Umweltbank. Umweltbank focuses on ecology and energy transition loans. The first innovation tender solar-plus-storage projects in Germany started coming online last year. Energy firm RWE announced it was ‘weeks away’ from turning on a 14.4MW PV, 9.6MWh project in April 2022.