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Battery storage planned on an area of up to 16 hectares | GESI office opened on site Preparations are in full swing: one of the largest electricity storage facilities in Germany is to be built in the immediate vicinity of the former Grohnde nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony by 2028(see visualization above). “The company Green Energy Storage Initiative SE (GESI) plans to invest up to 700 million euros in...

Project update Emmerthal (Grohnde)

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International benchmarking: Other countries are much further ahead when it comes to electricity storage and BESS strategies. We took a look at who we can learn from. Capacity market: Create market-based incentives – as in the UK. The Federal Ministry of Economics has announced that it will establish a capacity market in 2027. It is worth taking a look at the United Kingdom, which has already established a functioning mechanism...

Thinking outside the box for the energy transition

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Large-scale battery project developer brings experienced industry manager on board | “Driving force for the management team” Pullach, November 13. A new task for former Siemens CEO Heinrich von Pierer: the Erlangen native is now advising the battery storage project developer GESI Giga Batteries. “I am delighted that we have been able to gain one of the most experienced industry managers in Germany as a driving force and dialog partner...

Heinrich von Pierer advises GESI Giga Batteries

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Following the conclusion of the energy transition monitoring, the German government is planning reforms. We have summarized what is important here in a position paper. The common goal of the storage industry and politicians must now be to establish large-scale batteries as part of the solution for an affordable and sustainable energy transition. To achieve this, a reliable framework for investment must be created. You can find out which new...

Position paper: Creating planning security for battery storage systems

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The world’s fourth-largest economy now has a large-scale battery storage capacity of almost 16 gigawatts. Pullach, 11.07. 2025 | Seven years ago, California was still something of a storage desert: the cumulative large-scale battery capacity amounted to just 0.5 gigawatts in 2018. But since then, the US state, which in itself would be the fourth largest economy in the world, has made rapid progress. According to market analyses, total capacity...

California: Successful energy transition thanks to battery storage

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Our co-founder Martin Schoeller is the great-grandson of the electrical pioneer Oskar von Miller, who founded the Deutsches Museum – and was already promoting the idea of affordable electricity for everyone back then. When the Deutsches Museum in Munich opened its doors a hundred years ago in May 1925, it was mainly thanks to one man: the founder Oskar von Miller (1855 to 1934), an electrical pioneer and active promoter...

From the world’s largest storage power plant to GESI

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GESI Giga Batteries in the media

07/01/2026: “Battery storage on up to 16 hectares in Emmerthal: Former Hamelin resident drives project forward” Deister- und Weser-Zeitung

21/11/2025: “Who is allowed in here?“, WirtschaftsWoche

13/08/2025: Large-scale battery storage: The next project , Deister and Weser newspaper

06/08/2025: Urban land-use planning for large battery storage facility approved , Main-Post

06/06/2025: Green electricity is expensive to curtail – it doesn’t have to be, WirtschaftsWoche

07/03/2025: The solar flood, WirtschaftsWoche

02/03/2025: Huge investments worth millions are at stake: Emmerthal in demand as a location for energy projects, Deister and Weser newspaper

12/02/2025: How bad will the “battery tsunami” really be? WirtschaftsWoche

25/01/2025: Borna attracts battery investors – Several large storage facilities planned, Leipziger Volkszeitung

10/01/2025: The key to a successful energy transition by GESI CEO Walter Raizner, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

21/12/2024: Silent night, windless night, WirtschaftsWoche

19/12/2024: A large battery storage facility is planned in Bergrheinfeld, Mainpost

07/11/2024: From deposit box to mega store, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

22/10/2024: Will large-scale batteries advance the energy transition? WirtschaftsWoche

26/06/2024: New joint venture for the construction of large-scale storage facilities, Energy & Management

25/06/2024: The Mobility House and GESI plan to build and market eight gigawatts of battery storage capacity in Germany pv magazine

31/01/2024: Storing money in electricity storage systems, portfolio institutional

12/01/2024: Can nuclear power plants become electricity storage facilities? ZDF

02/01/2024: Heuking advises on structuring of GESI Green Energy Storage Initiative SE , Law & Politics

15/12/2023: Entrepreneurs and top managers launch Green Energy Storage Initiative, Environment Journ