Deutsche Telekom, Pixii plan 300-MWh battery roll-out in Germany

Deutsche Telekom AG (ETR:DTE) has switched on a 1-MW/6-MWh battery energy storage system at its head office in Munich as part of a 300-MWh partnership with Norwegian technology provider Pixii.

The planned battery storage roll-out across Germany is intended to provide peak shaving and arbitrage services to the grid, which will improve its stability and enable the wider adoption of renewable power generation capacity, Pixii said on Monday.

Deutsche Telekom’s Power & Air Solutions (PASM) subsidiary is handling the initiative that envisages installing Pixii’s PowerShaper solution. The modular energy storage solution ranges from 10 kW to 1 MW in size and comprises up to 50-kW containers, either with lithium iron phosphate battery (LFP) or nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) lithium-ion battery cells.

A second installation is planned to be put on stream in the city of Munster “shortly.”

“The current energy challenges in Europe underline the need for investments in energy storage. This is key for the shift to renewable energy sources to proceed without unacceptable volatility. Battery energy storage systems are a key component in the transformation, and this marks our first big step in that direction,” said Bernd Schulte-Sprenger, CEO of PASM.

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