The Bundestag building, Berlin.
The German parliament has passed law amendments giving energy storage its own legal definition, in a move welcomed by industry sources.
Adjustments have been made to the law on the Federal Requirements Plan (BBPlG), Energy Industry Act (EnWG) and Grid Expansion Acceleration Act (NABEG) which now define energy storage as an asset where “the final use of electrical energy is postponed to a later point in time than when it was generated,” according to a direct translation.
The move adopts the definition from Directive (EU) 2019/944 of June 5, 2019 into German law and was welcomed by the country’s Energy Storage System Association (BVES) as well as Jan Figgener, Head of Grid Integration and Storage System Analysis at ISEA RWTH Aachen University.
Both said it marks the beginning of a the development of a more storage-friendly…