In the southwest of Germany, ABO Wind has commissioned its first hybrid energy projects. The most recent addition is a photovoltaic plant combined with a battery energy storage system in the municipality of Lahr in Rhineland-Palatinate. The project had been awarded a tariff in the first so-called innovation tender by the German Federal Network Agency in autumn of 2020. The power output of the photovoltaic system is 4.27 Megawatt peak and that of the battery is 1.5 Megawatt (MW) with a corresponding storage capacity of 2.2 megawatt hours (MWh).The hybrid energy project was built in the immediate vicinity of a wind turbine on land belonging to the municipality of Lahr. ABO Wind had already commissioned the wind turbine in 2016 and sold it to SOLIX energy cooperative. The first German ABO Wind innovation project had already been connected to the grid in July 2022 in Wahlheim, next to another ABO Wind turbine. ABO Wind has since sold both hybrid projects, Lahr and Wahlheim, together with the Aulendorf solar farm, to the utility Stadtwerke Tübingen.Both batteries charge electricity from the solar plants when needed, for example when the sun is at its zenith, and release it when needed. In this way, more electricity from renewables can be integrated into the system. To receive the innovation tariff, however, the storage systems must not draw electricity from the grid when it is overloaded.
In the southwest of Germany, ABO Wind has commissioned its first hybrid energy projects. The most recent addition is a photovoltaic plant combined with a battery energy storage system in the municipality of Lahr in Rhineland-Palatinate. The project had been awarded a tariff in the first so-called innovation tender by the German Federal Network Agency in autumn of 2020. The power output of the photovoltaic system is 4.27 Megawatt peak and that of the battery is 1.5 Megawatt (MW) with a corresponding storage capacity of 2.2 megawatt hours (MWh).The hybrid energy project was built in the immediate vicinity of a wind turbine on land belonging to the municipality of Lahr. ABO Wind had already commissioned the wind turbine in 2016 and sold it to SOLIX energy cooperative. The first German ABO Wind innovation project had already been connected to the grid in July 2022 in Wahlheim, next to another ABO Wind turbine. ABO Wind has since sold both hybrid projects, Lahr and Wahlheim, together with the Aulendorf solar farm, to the utility Stadtwerke Tübingen.Both batteries charge electricity from the solar plants when needed, for example when the sun is at its zenith, and release it when needed. In this way, more electricity from renewables can be integrated into the system. To receive the innovation tariff, however, the storage systems must not draw electricity from the grid when it is overloaded.
