Switching from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is the key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving the climate protection targets. Particularly renewable electricity has made great progress in...
E for Energy Storage
One aspect of energy storage includes storing renewably generated electricity in batteries. Fraunhofer ISE investigates both stationary and mobile battery systems. With the growing share of renewable energy, there is an increasing need for a demand-led control of supply and demand in the grid. Here hydrogen generated by electrolysis with renewable power – and a sustainable mobility concept – have a central role. For four years, Fraunhofer ISE has been operating a solar hydrogen refueling station as research platform that includes several fuel cell vehicles.
Also, technologies for the thermal energy storage of solar energy at different temperature levels are being investigated and optimized: from storage systems in buildings up to systems using solar-generated steam to generate electricity in large solar thermal power plants.
Not least, we develop intelligent materials for hot and cold storage.
Articles from the category energy storage
André Sternberg
Karl-Anders WeißPaths to a Climate Neutral Energy System – The “No Nothing New” Scenario
To completely restructure an energy system, we as private individuals also have a role to play. That’s why we examined in one of the study’s scenarios the consequences of society’s unwillingness to...
Christoph Kost
Paths to a Climate-Neutral Energy System – the “counter-large-infrastructure scenario”
One of the scenarios in our study assumes that there will be massive resistance to the expansion of new infrastructures in the energy sector. What needs to happen by 2050 to reduce our CO2 emissions from transport...
Paths to a Climate-Neutral Energy System – the “We-save-more” Scenario
This scenario assumes that enough of us become so aware of climate change and the need for a climate-neutral energy system that we are prepared live more economically. What needs to happen by 2050 to reduce our CO2...
Timo Kurz
José Fernandez
Alexander TheisWorldwide innovation: A venetian blind that supplies solar thermal energy
A newly developed solar thermal venetian blind uses the heat generated by solar radiation and feeds it via heat pipes to the hot water storage tank of the building. …
Christoph Maurer
Sören Nungesser
Fighting the Losses: Power Electronics for Energy Storage Applications
In the wake of the changeover to renewables in the energy and transport sectors, storage systems are a key technology. They will play a major role in the energy transformation, from balancing the fluctuating feed-in...
Stephan Liese