The oil company Shell continues its commitment in the field of renewable energy. Now the company buys a competitor for Tesla Powerwalls from the Allgäu.
February 16, 2019, 11:39 am,
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The Dutch-British energy company Royal Dutch Shell has completely taken over the German home battery manufacturer Sonnen. After Shell had already entered the sun as an investor in May 2018, the company will now become a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell New Energies, shared suns on February 15th, The antitrust authorities would still have to agree to the takeover. The purchase price was not mentioned.
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Sonnen claims to have already installed more than 40,000 batteries worldwide, making it the market leader in intelligent power storage systems. For this purpose, the company uses only lithium iron phosphate batteries (LiFePO4). Sonnen currently offers energy storage with a capacity of up to 48 kilowatt hours with an inverter output of up to 9.9 kilowatts.
Home battery as a component of the energy transition
Home batteries are an important building block for the energy transition and, in conjunction with a photovoltaic system, can secure an almost self-sufficient household energy supply. They can also be connected with heat pumps and combined heat and power plants. At charging stations for electric cars battery buffers can also compensate for load peaks. A corresponding pilot plant Innogy was commissioned in October 2018 in Duisburg,
The electric car manufacturer Tesla also has so-called Powerwalls on offer, for example be used in Australia as a large network storage, In combination with solar shingles on the roof they should also enable their own power supply.
Shell heavily involved in charging networks
Sonnen co-founder and chief executive officer Christoph Ostermann explained that the company hopes to continue growing dynamically in a rapidly developing market. With this investment, the company “could now enable more households to become energy independent and benefit from entirely new opportunities in the energy market”.
Shell has supported or fueled many alternative drive companies in recent years. So the company participates in ionity, the charging network operator of German automakers. Also at his own gas stations the group wants to set up charging stations, The Group also owns the Dutch mobility service New Motion. In January 2019 Shell bought New Energies the US loading startup Greenslots.
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