Press, news and personal details

Here you can find out how our initiative is progressing.

News

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

Read more
For a successful energy transition, we need to focus not only on quantitative but also qualitative growth targets – and expand storage capacities in order to fully exploit the potential of wind turbines. It is probably the greatest risk to the acceptance of the energy transition: Time and again, wind turbines stand still despite stiff breezes because the grid cannot absorb the energy. In such cases, operators have to throttle...

Wind power tuning with large central batteries

Read more
Storage facts series (IV) | Critics question whether battery storage systems are useful for the grid and system. Why they are wrong. A constant frequency is of paramount importance for the stability of the electricity grid. However, with the expansion of wind and solar energy, there are strong fluctuations: On sunny and windy days, there is an abundance of electricity, which is accompanied by increasing frequency. During so-called dark doldrums,...

How large-scale batteries support the power grid

Read more
One of Germany’s largest energy storage facilities is being built near the decommissioned Grohnde nuclear power plant. On March 1, we presented our plans to interested citizens. Pullach, March 2025: The municipality of Emmerthal near Hamelin in Lower Saxony is becoming a pioneer in the integration of renewable energies into the electricity grid: We will build a battery energy storage system (BESS) in the immediate vicinity of the decommissioned nuclear...

GESI project presented in Grohnde

Read more
The new German government and the Federal Network Agency should pave the way for large-scale batteries instead of erecting new hurdles and making private sector initiatives more difficult. From GESI CEO Walter Raizner +++ This article was first published in the FAZ +++ The year got off to a promising start in terms of the energy transition: strong winds boosted electricity production. As a result, the price of electricity on...

The key to a successful energy transition

Read more
Memory facts series (III) | There has been repeated talk in the media recently of a “boom” in large batteries. However, there is still a huge gap between supply and demand. “A battery tsunami is rolling in”, was the recent headline in “Der Spiegel”. A “second German energy miracle” is currently in the offing, which could make electricity cheaper than ever. Unfortunately, the subjunctive mood is more than appropriate here,...

“Battery tsunami” or micro-wave?

Read more

GESI Giga Batteries in the media

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 Journal

GESI Green Energy Storage Initiative SE

Zugspitzstraße 9
82049 Pullach i. Isartal
Germany

Telephone number:
+49 89 552770

Menu

Legal matters

Social media

Linkedin

©️ GESI Green Energy Storage Initiative