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Max Bögl Wind AG demonstrates its new power plant and storage concept at the ESNA in California

Max Bögl Wind AG will present its products with a globally unique natural storage technology at this year’s Energy Storage North America (ESNA) fair in San Diego. From August 8 to 10, the company will present its water battery at booth 629.

With the water battery, Max Bögl Wind AG has developed a completely new large-scale storage facility, which sets new standards in a technologically innovative way. For the first time, the production of power from renewable energies, such as from a wind or solar farm or from biomass, will be combined with a modern pumped-storage power plant. The water battery can store surplus power from the grid and the energy can bereused as required. It acts as a short-term storage facility and contributes to maintaining stability of the grid, as well as guaranteeing continuous, uninterrupted supply. The pumped-storage power plant is available in three performance classes (16, 24 or 32 MW) and can switch between production and storage within 30 seconds.

The first project is currently being developed in Germany near Stuttgart. It consists of a wind farm with four wind turbines and a pumped-storage power plant with an installed capacity of 16 MW. The new storage concept uses the tower base of the wind turbines as water storage facilities with a storage capacity of 70 MWh. A penstock connect them with a hydroelectric power station and the corresponding lower reservoir 200 meters below in the valley.

“The water battery is a natural storage facility which stands out for its durability and high degree of flexibility,” says Jürgen Joos, CFO at Max Bögl Wind AG.

About Max Bögl Wind AG
Using renewable energies more efficiently and forwarding the energy revolution. This is the principle behind Max Bögl Wind AG with its innovative technology solutions. The company is the market leader in Germany for manufacturing, delivery and erection of hybrid towers for hub heights of 130 meters and above, and holds the record for the highest wind turbine tower with an hub height of 164 meters. Max Bögl Wind AG sets also new innovative standards in the energy storage industry. With the water battery, an entirely new type of flexible and small pumped-storage power planthas been developed which for the first time combines renewable energies with large-scale storage facilities. Max Bögl Wind AG is an affiliate company of Max Bögl. The corporate group from Sengenthal near Neumarkt in Bavaria, is one of the top ten largest German companies in the construction industry, and has been operating in the wind sector since 2010. Founded in 1929, the family-owned company with around 6,000 employees worldwide has an annual turnover of over 1.6 billion euros.

Media contact:
Nancy Fürst
Marketing Wind
Max Bögl Wind AG
Postfach 11 20
D-92301 Neumarkt (Germany)
Tel. +49 9181 909 14698
nfuerst@max-boegl.de

Philippe Ruß
PR consultant
PR-Agentur Solar Consulting GmbH
Emmy-Noether-Straße 2
D-79110 Freiburg (Germany)
Tel. +49 761 38 09 68-21
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