Battery Storage Targeted by German State That Built Solar
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Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt state, once the home of the biggest solar cell production plants, now seeks growth from another new industry: Energy storage.
South Korea’s SK Innovation Co Ltd will help build a 5-megawatt battery unit in Halle, and later a 30-megawatt storage device in Magdeburg, State Premier Reiner Haseloff said, citing agreements struck during his recent trip to the Asian country. SK supplied technology for a 1-megawatt unit with 5,000 lithium-ion battery cells that was successfully tested today at Magdeburg’s Fraunhofer IFF research institute.