Nuovi segnali dalla Germania sul fronte energia eolica. Il 2007 ha già segnato un record: gli impianti eolici hanno fino ad ora prodotto più energia eolica di tutti gli impianti nucleari presenti sul territorio tedesco. Oltre al’adeguamento delle reti di distribuzione, si inizia ora a verificare le metodologie più adatte per immagazzinare l’energia elettrica “in eccesso” prodotta dalle turbine.

Whoever Produces Wind Energy Must Combine New Energy Storage Strategies for Grid Production

The use of wind as a power supply continues to rapidly increase in Germany: in 2007 the wind power supplied more power to the German network than all the atomic power plants together. This of course requires an adjustment in the current power network structures and energy management. The greater power discharge should now result in larger power storage options and bring the wind power up to a similar planning level as conventional power plants.

Numerous studies financed by environmental ministry have proven that in northern Germany salt mines would be suitable for compressed air storage. The EnBW want to build a so called “CAES-Power Plant” (compressed air energy storage) on the German North Sea coast by 2011.

The company Enertrag are following a very different route. They want to connect the first hybrid power station in the Uckermark region to the network by 2008: Wind power and biogas benefits should be interlinked and hydrogen should firstly be produced in industry quantities thus enabling a variable energy storage and delivery.

Link to the use of wind:
[http://energie.kjm2.de/ref.php?id=7f56fd837445ms473]

Link to the “CAES-Power Plant” (PDF, German):
[http://energie.kjm2.de/ref.php?id=7f56fd837446ms473]

Link to the company Enertrag:
[http://energie.kjm2.de/ref.php?id=7f56fd837447ms473]

Link to the Wind power:
[http://energie.kjm2.de/ref.php?id=7f56fd837448ms473]