{"id":82190,"date":"2018-08-29T17:03:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/100000-homes-in-germany-now-have-battery-storage-systems-connected-to-the-grid"},"modified":"2018-08-29T17:03:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T00:03:24","slug":"100000-homes-in-germany-now-have-battery-storage-systems-connected-to-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/100000-homes-in-germany-now-have-battery-storage-systems-connected-to-the-grid","title":{"rendered":"100,000 homes in Germany now have battery-storage systems connected to the grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/100000-homes-in-germany-now-have-battery-storage-systems-connected-to-the-grid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Germany helped <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1144298\/humanitys-fight-against-climate-change-is-failing-one-technology-can-change-that\/\">make solar power cheap<\/a>. As of June this year, it boasts 1 million homes that have installed rooftop solar panels. That means the country produces a lot of renewable energy\u2014sometimes more than it can use.<\/p>\n<p>At such times, German grid operators have had to pay neighboring countries or grids to use the excess electricity. Since the beginning of this year, German grids have accumulated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-08-06\/negative-prices-in-power-market-as-wind-solar-cut-electricity\">194 hours<\/a> (paywall) with negative power prices.<\/p>\n<p>Now Germany is turning to energy storage as a solution to the problem of excess electricity. On Aug. 28, an energy ministry official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarwirtschaft.de\/index.php?id=875\">attended the commissioning<\/a> (link in German) of the 100,000th home to install a battery-storage system that\u2019s connected to the grid.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1372939\/100000-homes-in-germany-now-have-battery-storage-systems-connected-to-the-grid\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1372939\/100000-homes-in-germany-now-have-batt...-the-grid\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany helped make solar power cheap. As of June this year, it boasts 1 million homes that have installed rooftop solar panels. That means the country produces a lot of renewable energy\u2014sometimes more than it can use. At such times, German grid operators have had to pay neighboring countries or grids to use the excess [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}