{"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":"2026-06-24T11:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:08:13","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\n\n
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Decentralized seasonal electricity storage and
grid-supporting innovations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a contribution to the success of the energy transition, the DBU is publishing the funding initiative<\/strong> “Storage and grids”.<\/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 traditional three funding options – project funding<\/a>, green start-ups<\/a> and support for young talent (MOE Fellowship<\/a> and doctoral scholarship<\/a>) – this funding initiative offers additional project access. Up to 15,000 euros will be made available per funded project in an ideas competition<\/strong>. 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<\/a> for the ideas competition of the funding initiative “Storage and grids”.<\/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 \u2018Storage and Grids\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On 16 June 2026, a symposium on the funding initiative \u2018Storage and Grids\u2019 took place at the Centre for Environmental Communication of the German Federal Environmental Foundation in Osnabr\u00fcck. Further information on the programme can be found here (in German language)<\/a>. You can download the presentation slides<\/strong> (also only in German language) for the talks below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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