Decentralized seasonal electricity storage and
grid-supporting innovations
As a contribution to the success of the energy transition, the DBU is publishing the “Storage and grids” funding initiative. The funding initiative is aimed at new, innovative and sustainable ideas for the stabilization, resilience and ecological optimization of the electricity supply – decentralized at the distribution grid level.
In order to generate synergies, the development of new grid-supporting functionalities on the one hand and new ways of storing electrical energy or its decarbonized energy sources decentrally and seasonally on the other are being promoted. Elements of sector coupling, for example in the area of heat utilization, are possible.
The funding initiative has two focal points: Decentralized seasonal electricity storage and grid-supporting innovations.
DBU call for tenders “Storage and grids”, focus
Decentralized seasonal electricity storage
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Jörg Lefèvre
j.lefevre@dbu.de
0541 9633-210
DBU call for tenders “Storage and grids”, focus
Grid-friendly innovations
Contact:
Dr. Katrin Anneser
k.anneser@dbu.de
0541 9633-242
In addition to our traditional three funding options – project funding, green start-ups and support for young talent(MOE Fellowship and doctoral scholarship) – this funding initiative offers additional project access. Up to 15,000 euros will be made available per funded project in an ideas competition. The aim is to put previously rudimentary ideas on paper and evaluate them technically within three to four months. Promising results can then receive further funding. Further information can be found in the video and in the two tender documents. Please use our working aid for work and cost plans on a cost basis for the ideas competition of the “Storage and grids” funding initiative.
DBU tender “Storage and grids”, additional project access
Ideas competition
Funded projects
- Industrial energy flexibilization for refrigerated warehouses (fleXality GmbH)
- Grid-serving flexibility of large-scale batteries in the Haßberge district (Center for Applied Energy Reserarch e. V.)
- Integration of stationary battery storage systems into an AI-supported system for digital grid status determination (Gridhound GmbH)
- Practical investigation into the grid-friendly use of process heat generation through hybrid heat supply (ZINQ Technologie GmbH)
Promoted ideas
- Seasonal thermal sand storage (Franz Evers)
- 2nd-Life-Battery powered High Power Charger (Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences)
- MapGPT (regionalwerke GmbH & Co. KG)
- Storage for balcony solar (Balkon.Solar e. V.)
- MicroG 4 Rail (QINUM GmbH)
- Intelligent use of short and long-term storage in the distribution grid (Ulm University of Applied Sciences)