Germany’s Uniper SE and Slovenia’s NGEN energetske rešitve d.o.o. have begun building for a 50-megawatt (MW) battery vitality storage venture on the location of Uniper’s former coal energy plant in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
“The battery vitality storage system in Wilhelmshaven will steadiness out short-term fluctuations within the energy grid brought on by the feed-in of wind and photo voltaic vitality sooner or later”, a joint assertion mentioned. “On this approach, the system will sustainably strengthen the combination of renewable energies in addition to grid stability”.
Olaf Lies, minister-president of the state of Decrease Saxony, mentioned within the assertion, “The venture exemplifies the following part of the vitality transition: the shift towards an built-in, digitally managed vitality system through which completely different applied sciences work collectively intelligently”.
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The companions count on to place the venture into service by yearend.
“The battery storage facility is a part of Uniper’s Power Transformation Hub Nordwest (ETHNw) and, following the Voslapper Groden PV park, is the second venture in Wilhelmshaven to now enter the implementation part”, the assertion mentioned. “Inside the ETHNw, Uniper is bringing collectively main initiatives with the purpose of establishing an built-in hydrogen infrastructure along side renewable vitality services”.
The photo voltaic venture on the ash landfill of the previous coal plant will generate about 17,500 MW hours a 12 months, sufficient to energy as much as 4,500 households primarily based on a median family consumption of about 3,300 kilowatt hours each year, in response to Uniper.
Commissioning for the photo voltaic venture is focused for the primary half of 2026.
In Wilhelmshaven, Uniper additionally plans to construct a 1-gigawatt electrolyzer that will be powered by offshore wind.
Final 12 months Uniper and thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH signed a “framework settlement” for the development of six industrial ammonia crops towards the institution of a scalable hydrogen import terminal in Wilhelmshaven.
The settlement licenses thyssenkrupp Uhde’s ammonia cracking expertise to the ability and fuel utility. It covers as much as six crops with a mixed capability of seven,200 metric tons of ammonia per day.
“The license package deal contains engineering, providers and the provision of predominant tools and catalysts”, a joint assertion mentioned November 26, 2025.
“Uniper is at the moment driving ahead the pre-FEED (front-end engineering and design) for a industrial plant at its Wilhelmshaven web site. This pre-FEED part will set up the design foundation for the venture, outline its scope in additional element, additional assessment its technoeconomic feasibility and scale back its uncertainties and dangers”.
Uniper expects to launch the FEED part by yearend 2026.
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