{"id":97670,"date":"2024-06-27T16:35:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T14:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/topics\/funding-initiatives\/grids-storage\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:21:13","slug":"grids-storage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/en\/topics\/funding-initiatives\/grids-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage and grids"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Funding initiative \u201eStorage and grids\u201c<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/header>\n
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Decentralized seasonal electricity storage andgrid-supporting innovations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a contribution to the success of the energy transition, the DBU is publishing the “Storage and grids” funding initiative.<\/strong> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding initiative has two focal points: Decentralized seasonal electricity storage<\/a> and grid-supporting innovations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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DBU call for tenders “Storage and grids”, focus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decentralized seasonal electricity storage<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Contact:Dr.-Ing. J\u00f6rg Lef\u00e8vre<\/strong>j.lefevre@dbu.de<\/a>0541 9633-210<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n

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DBU call for tenders “Storage and grids”, focus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grid-friendly innovations<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Contact:Dr. Katrin Anneser<\/strong>k.anneser@dbu.de<\/a>0541 9633-242<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n

In addition to our three traditional funding opportunities\u2014 project funding<\/a>, Green Start-up<\/a>, and support for early-career researchers (MOE Fellowship<\/a> and doctoral scholarship<\/a>)\u2014this funding initiative included an additional project track. In an ideas competition<\/strong>, up to 15,000 euros were made available per funded project. The goal was to take ideas that had previously existed only in a rudimentary form and put them on paper and evaluate them technically within three to four months. Promising results could subsequently receive further funding. Additional information on this project track is available in the video and in the two call for proposals documents. Since the ideas competition has already ended, it is no longer possible to submit ideas. Of course, regular project proposals can still be submitted via the online application system. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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DBU tender “Storage and grids”, additional project access<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ideas competition<\/h3>\n\n\n
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DBU Symposium on the funding initiative \u201cStorage and Grids\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On June 16, 2026, a symposium on the \u201cStorage and Networks\u201d funding initiative was held at the Center for Environmental Communication of the German Federal Environmental Foundation in Osnabr\u00fcck. You can find more information about the program here<\/a>. You can download the presentation slides<\/strong> from the talks below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 1: Industrial Flexibility and Load Curve Adjustment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n