04 Jun 2019, 13:30 Sören Amelang Storage Start-ups Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung German home battery specialist Sonnen, one of Germany’s most prominent energy transition start-ups, which was taken over by Shell earlier this year, wants to become ...
German solar battery maker Sonnen has secured 60 million euros in funds from Shell Ventures, a unit of the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell, and existing shareholders to expand at home and abroad, reports Vera Eckert for Reuters newswire. Sonnen chief ...
18 Jan 2019, 13:19 Sören Amelang Storage Business & Jobs pv magazine German battery storage supplier Sonnen has received a 25-million-euro loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB), reports Marian Willuhn in pv magazine. The EIB said supporting ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Storage Business Wire Bavarian energy storage group Sonnen is building a virtual power plant from private storage systems as part of a joint project with US energy supplier Rocky Mountain Power and the Wasatch ...
German battery company sonnen wants to equip electric car users with a new charging box that not only allows them to draw electricity from solar panels on their homes, but also connects them to other users, making them part of a larger battery pool. The ...
08 Nov 2019, 14:04 Sören Amelang Solar Cars 91tv / Die Welt Bavarian energy storage company Sonnen, which was taken over by oil company Shell earlier this year, is entering the e-mobility market. The company said it will launch a ...
Bavarian storage manufacturer sonnen will offer a free power flat rate to consumers that install the company’s integrated solar PV and home storage systems, sonnen announced in a press release. The flat rates will be financed with revenues the company ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Transmission grid operator Tennet has certified the solar power home battery producer Sonnen to become a control energy provider for the German power grid, ...
A pilot project by Dutch grid operator TenneT and German company Sonnen is meant to test power grid stabilisation with blockchain technology based on Sonnen’s decentralised home energy storage systems, TenneT says in a press release. TenneT will integrate ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:17 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Bloomberg Oil major Shell plans to transform itself into “the largest electricity power company in the world” by the early 2030s, and the recent purchase of German battery ...
German Sonnen will supply the largest home power storage project in the Unites States with solar PV and battery systems, reports Christian Roselund for pv magazine. Each of the 2,900 homes in a new residential area in Prescott Valley, Arizona will receive ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:21 Sören Amelang Start-ups Utilities Wirtschaftswoche Shell’s acquisition of home battery start-up Sonnen and its plans to become the world’s largest power company worry German utilities, Konrad Fischer and Angela Hennersdorf report for ...
German battery manufacturer Sonnen is the first small & medium enterprise to win the 1.5 million-dollar Zayed Future Energy Prize. The annual award has become one of the most prestigious in the cleantech industry. Sonnen called the prize the “Oscar of ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz Storage 91tv German industrial conglomerate Siemens has launched its first battery storage system geared toward private homes. Homes that generate their own electricity from sources like solar panels will be ...
15 Feb 2019, 13:51 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Storage Business & Jobs 91tv Oil and gas giant Shell is buying German home battery storage company Sonnen, turning the pioneer into a wholly owned subsidiary once regulatory ...
German renewable power company sonnen has said it will offer e-car charging infrastructure free of charge with flat rate electricity contracts to customers switching to the provider, reports Henning Peitsmeier in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “We ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:15 Rachel Waldholz Storage Business & Jobs Financial Times Residential battery storage is poised to become a major industry, reports Patrick McGee in the Financial Times. That trend has been highlighted by major recent investments from ...
German company Sonnen seeks to disrupt the energy market by decentralising energy supply and connecting energy-producing households with one another, Stanley Reed writes in the New York Times. The company from Bavaria, which is active in Europe, the US ...
The state of South Australia wants to build the world’s largest network of connected home power storages and counts on German solar battery maker sonnen to deliver part of the infrastructure for the project that will encompass 40,000 households, the ...
02 May 2017, 00:00 A German pilot project will hook up thousands of household batteries to balance out intermittent renewable power production. Grid operator Tennet and solar battery maker Sonnen said they will use blockchain technology to build a network ...
Several German start-ups prepare to revolutionise the national energy market, writes Helmut Bünder in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “We’ll get rid of established suppliers” for instance is the slogan of Sonnen GmbH, a high-tech company from the German ...
German battery maker sonnen GmbH aims to push the country’s traditional energy giants out of the market with flat-rate contracts for electricity provided by a network of battery storage and green power facilities, Franz Hubik writes for Handelsblatt. “The ...
Power grid operator Tennet and household power storage provider Sonnen plan to use a network of small-scale batteries to help reduce costs caused by grid bottlenecks between Germany’s windy North and the power-hungry South, reports Michael Bauchmüller in ...
30 Sep 2020, 13:18 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs 91tv Shell plans to make Germany a test case in its global ambition to become a net-zero emission company. The British-Dutch oil major, one of the world's largest companies by revenues ...
The German energy sector is slowly embracing digitalisation with its push towards decentralisation, writes Ulrich Schäfer in a column in Süddeutsche Zeitung. It is starting to depart from “the centralistic, military precision” thinking and management. ...
Many producers showcased their storage devices at the Intersolar Europe trade fair in Munich. Jonathan Gifford, pv magazine global editor, and Götz Fischbeck, CEO of company Smart Solar Consulting, visited the exhibits and conducted a series of interviews ...
The use of batteries to level out intermittent solar and wind generation in the Tennet and Sonnen project shows that “the Energiewende is making progress,” writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “New offshore wind parks have been approved ...
22 May 2025, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Ensuring that flexible electricity use is accounted for in Germany's grid fee reform could allow for lower electricity bills, a group of energy providers and mobility ...
Small solar energy companies that invest heavily in research and development are Germany’s last hope of gaining a good share in an industry in which the country has invested billions in subsidies, Daniel Wetzel writes in weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. ...
Mercedes-Benz will stop production of residential batteries, ending a short-lived challenge to storage systems made by Tesla, start-up Sonnen and others, reports Julian Spector for Greentech Media. Little over two years after the launch, Mercedes-Benz ...
The rapid rise of renewable energy systems in recent years could signal that “the world is entering an era of clean, unlimited and cheap power,” The Economist writes. But while it was “about time” renewables played a more important role, the “dirty secret ...
Today, all a household needs to secure an autonomous power supply is a roof-top solar panel, internet access and a cupboard-sized battery in the basement, writes Inge Kloepfer in weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. By offering just that, ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:33 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Start-ups Business & Jobs Technology Cleantech Group Ten German startups are among the 100 most innovative clean technology companies from around the globe, according to US-based ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv A new research project aimed at solving one of the major technological difficulties of the energy transition is seeking to use the energy from wind turbines' moving rotors and ...
08 May 2019, 13:16 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Gas Wind Business & Jobs Reuters German engineering conglomerate Siemens is spinning off its gas and power business, which has dragged on the firm’s performance as the rise of ...
04 Sep 2020, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Solar pv magazine A growing number of regional utility companies are showing interest in buying electricity generated from solar PV installations that are more than 20 years old and will cease to receive feed-in payments ...
17 Feb 2021, 13:18 Sören Amelang Renewable Energy Act | EEG Policy Handelsblatt / pv magazine Plans to scrap Germany's renewables levy are maturing within Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with a new ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:15 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Gas Hydrogen Technology Wirtschaftswoche French oil major Total keeps an eagle eye on German projects that use ...
27 Mar 2019, 11:14 91tv is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we have launched a series on start-ups that ...
20 Mar 2019, 11:49 91tv is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we are launching a series on start-ups that ...
12 Oct 2018, 16:30 The surge of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a strong showing of the Green Party look set to end the absolute majority of conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavarian state elections on 14 October. The CSU is a ...
11 Jul 2019, 13:33 The shift to a low-carbon future is turning the economy inside out. Policy has a crucial role to play, but ultimately it is businesses that will make the energy transition happen. In Energiewende home country Germany, many start-ups are ...
21 Mar 2017, 00:00 Over 1,000 ministers, officials, business people, energy experts and journalists from around 90 countries take part in the third Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, a two-day confernce hosted by the German Foreign Ministry. The following ...
17 Apr 2019, 09:50 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:26 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
27 Sep 2021, 15:30 Germany is set to vote for a new government on 26 September. After 16 years at the helm of Europe's largest economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel will make room for a successor who will shape the country's energy and climate ...
