Project news

11-11-10 - Kristina Koebe
The project partner Hydrogen Technology Initiative M-V has disseminated the results of the analyses on storage solutions further - the related report was presented on two major events in the SBR. In addition, the related recommendations which are under elaboration were discussed with experts:

The first event was the VIII. Energiesymposium in Stralsund on November 3rd. The audience consisted of decision makers, scientists and representatives of the industrial sector. A lively discussion arised between the speaker and the audience. Energy producers are interested in the analysed storage solutions and welcome the intermediary work of the project between the three groups as named before. After the presentatio,n personal conversation with both scientists and energy producers/ grid operators lead to the agreement to work further on that topic of storage solutions due to the topic's urgency. 

Likewise, the participation at the 3rd Baltic Energy Event in Vilnius, Lithuania on November 9th lead to the same results. In cooperation with South Baltic project "S.B. OFFER", a direct connection to the offshore wind industry was established. Using intersections and common fields of project work the integration of storage solutions to offshore wind energy succeeded on that Event. Major investor's interest was awoken by the presentation and fruitful discussion afterwards. Both Events were a success for the dissemination work of the report and recommendations which will be finalized and published in the beginning of December.

For further details on the event in Vilnius, see: http://www.eelevents.co.uk/past-events/baltic_energy_2011.html

Tilman Schubert, HTI

11-10-31 - Kristina Koebe

The working results achieved so far in the WEBSR2 project will be presented on the international conference „Baltic Energy 2011“ which will be held in 8-9 November in Vilnius, Lithuania – see http://www.eelevents.co.uk/baltic_energy_2011/index.html for details on the event and our contributions.

11-09-12 - Kristina Koebe
With 9 teams from Sweden, Gdansk and Rostock submitting their proposals for 3 installation sites for wind energy art objects, the contest which was started in May 2011 has come to an end now. In about two weeks, on the 25./26.9., the international jury will award three winners among all contributions - learn more about the contest, the participants and the jury on this website in the section "wind art".

11-09-12 - Kristina Koebe
Two partners of our project team, HTI and SSI, will present their work and the project WEBSR2 on the 3rd Annual Baltic Energy Conference, which will be held in Vilnius, 8-9 November, 2011, which will focus on the following topic: "With increasing energy demands and dependency on imported energy, the Baltic States are looking for new generation sources, renewable energy may provide the solution. National incumbents and international investors alike are looking to the unfolding opportunities in the Baltic States, but can the potential be realised and what future remains for non-renewable energy?"

11-09-06 - Kristina Koebe

The first demonstrator developed by the Component 5-team has been installed in Gdansk in August 2011 - with the opportunity to monitor it on a related website: http://www.monitor.iel.gda.pl/demonstrator/index.html

11-08-18 - Kristina Koebe
The project "WEBSR2" will be presented and promoted on the BALTEXPO 2011, the 16th International Maritime Exhibition, which will take place in Gdansk from 6. to 8.9.2011, namely on the International Conference “Offshore Wind Energy and Maritime Industry”, which will be held on September 7^th 2011 within the BALTEXPO International Maritime Exhibition in the OLIVIA Hall in Gdansk. We will use the opportunity to inform the large amount of visitors about our project work and the results achieved so far.

11-08-16 - Kristina Koebe

The presentation will present the results of the study “Obstacles for Wind energy development due to EU-legislation” elaborated within the course of this project by Prof. Henning Sten Hansen, Aalborg University. It addresses mainly legal and planning experts involved into the topic and will take place from 9.30 to 12.30 in Rostock's town hall, meeting room 1.

11-05-31 - Kristina Koebe

Energy Agency for Southeast Sweden - ESS has participated in a study visit on the offshore wind farm Lillgrund which is located outside Malmö in Öresund. The study visit was conducted with the Swedish partner in SB OFF.ER consisting of municipalities from Karlskrona and Sölvesborg. Invited were also local industries who have shown interest as subcontractors for future offshore projects, all together about 30 persons. Vattenfall is the owner of Lillgrund. The wind farm went into operation for 5 years ago. It consists of 48 WT, each with 2.3 MW. The entire wind farm produces about 350 GWh per year.

On the same day was also visited EWP Tower Production located in the Kockums shipyard in Malmö. Several offshore projects are planning off the coast of Karlskrona and Sölvesborg such as Blekinge Offshore with a total of 500-700 WT in the same project – 2500 MW/ 8 TWh per year. Therefore, purposes of this trip are both give stimulus, creating networks of local subcontractors and to collect experiences.

For more information, please contact Anders Gajmark, ESS

11-05-27 - Kristina Koebe
The analyses and studies elaborated in component 4 so far were presented to an expert team on this workshop and jointly discussed. The aim of the workshop was to add the perspective of external experts to the analysis work to ensure that all perspectives are taken into account. Based on this, storage recommendations for the partner countries will be elaborated now in consideration of technical, geographical and financial aspects.

11-05-27 - Kristina Koebe
All partners of the WEBSR2 team met in Karlskrona on the 4./5.5.2011 to present the latest results of the joint work and discuss the further work in all components. In component 3, the results of the analysis reports were presented (related documents available on this website under "results") and the first recommendations were discussed. In component 4, the analyses have already resulted into detailed recommendations to be elaborated in further detail in 2011. And the wind energy marketing that was impressively started with the wind energy event in Rostock in the end of April and will be continued now with establishing the WEIPs and installing the demonstrators - detailed concepts for both are available now (see results/comp 5) and the first demonstrator will be opened in about 8 weeks. The meeting took place in a very friendly and cooperative atmosphere.

11-03-04 - Kristina Koebe
Some partners of the WEBSR2 team elaborated an additional project related to the ideas developed in component 5 - as a result the application WEBSR2 Upgrade was submitted and approved in September 2010. The kickoff meeting of the Upgrade-project took place in Kalmar in February 2011. There, the planned international contest of artists who develo ideas for 3 wind art objects in Kalmar, Gdansk and Rostock was discussed and the further proceeding of this work determined in detail.  More information on the Upgrade project are available on this website under "components".

11-03-04 - Kristina Koebe
The WEBSR2 partners will meet again in Karlskrona in May 2011 to present and discuss the work of the last months face-to-face. Representatives of the projects WEBSR2 Upgrade, OFFER and RES Chains will take part in the meeting, too, and present the status of their project work to the partner team. Thus, the meeting will be a perfect opportunity to determine possible synergies and exchange know-how and experiences related to wind energy, wind energy and art and renewable energy sources in general.

11-03-04 - Kristina Koebe
Over the last 8 months, our partner team discussed opportunities how to establish information points on wind energy in a way that is attractive for a big target group. As a result of this joint working process of 6 institutions from 4 countries, the concepts for wind energy information points in Gdansk, Kalmar, Klaipeda and Kaunas have been issued now - to be found on this project website (see results / component 5).

10-12-12 - Kristina Koebe
In balanced way information on grid regulation and storage solutions were exchanged. A grid operators’ task is to insure a constant supply of consumers with electric energy. Facing a difference between feed-in and demand causes a need to regulate the grid concerning current and frequency. In the near future new regulation solutions have to be applied to avoid cut-offs. Regulation energy is most expensive and puts storage solutions in a position to offer compatible prices. Grid extension as well as efficient storage solution of different scales is in focus of the grid operators in the near future. Now a closer evaluation has to happen to find the most feasible solution for a certain task. Both, regional and global solutions will play a role in that matter. For Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania this means to start a discussion on the analysed storage solution of the WEBSR2-project jointly with public administration, grid operators, inhabitants and experts. Another question that has to be answered is who will be the investor of storages. Today large suppliers and grid operators act according to causative principle. The provider of fluctuating energy (wind and solar energy) should from their perspective be the one who is about to facilitate storages. But there is no incentive right now to do that because even if these providers are cut off they receive compensation. From a macro-economic view this causes inefficiencies which can contribute to higher energy prices and slow down the energy revolution.

sgd. Tilman Schubert

10-11-19 - Kristina Koebe
Aiming at the finding of appropriate locations a discussion was held with Dr. Carsten Obst as a representative of State Office of Environment, Conservation and Geology. The Hydrogen Technology Initiative got wised up about possible sites to establish hydrogen caverns to store that gas as an energy carrier. Basic prerequisites and conditions which have to be fulfilled before applying that storage solutions where discussed. A result is that there are plenty of appropriate sites in the state which either are unused yet or in charge for energy suppliers to store natural gas. Furthermore alternative approaches to use caverns where openly discussed and adjudged to be brought into focus as well. On of these ideas is to apply caverns as water reservoirs for pumped hydro electricity.
In a next step the storage solutions will be presented to potential investors aiming at the installation of a pilot facility.

sgd. Tilman Schubert

10-11-19 - Kristina Koebe
At the meeting with representatives of the county council of Bad Doberan county the idea of storing surplus wind energy in appropriate technologies where presented. The feedback was throughout positive but sceptic as well. A pumped hydro plant was considered to be too big to be accepted by the citizens and visitors. However the concept was considered to be a model solution to regulate energy feed-in to the grid and an exemplary analysis will be supported. Furthermore intersections with other projects where notified and a future cooperation was agreed. Especially e-mobility in connection to hydrogen as energy carrier which has to be stored properly was seen as bridge between existing projects.

Tilman Schubert

10-11-08 - Kristina Koebe
The wind energy event to be implemented in component 5 of the WEBSR2-project will take place as a cooperation with the "Long Night of Science" - an annual event that is very popular in Rostock and welcomes a lot of visitors every year. Thus, the opening of the wind energy event, which will take place in the pedestrian zone of Rostock's inner city centre, will take place on the 28 April 2011 and remain open to public until the 1 May 2011.

10-11-08 - Kristina Koebe

The Hydrogen Technology Initiative M-V (HTI) is a regular guest at the annual event in Stralsund. This year the HTI was able to present its work in the WEBSR2 project dealing with storage technologies for fluctuating wind energy. The aim is to elaborate suitable configurations of production and storage of electrical energy from wind. Due to the large share of wind energy in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania this topic is widely discussed on all levels. That is why the feedback on the HTI’s presentation was downright positive. Even the interest of a private investor could be aroused. Focussing on the two storage solutions pumped hydro storage and hydrogen storage in caverns a discussion on the state’s storage potentials arose resulting in the need of pumped hydro storage if ecological responsibly facilitated. Sceptical voices could be convinced by the touristic attractiveness of a pumped hydro storage if designed in an appropriate way. The integration of green energy production and touristic use of the region were assessed to be compatible.

Date:                          5th November 2010

Place:                         University of Applied Science Stralsund

Name of Event:        Klimaschutzkongress M-V, XVII. Energiesymposium

Contribution:             Presentation of WEBSR2-project and presentation of storage

                                   technologies

10-06-15 - Kristina Koebe
After nearly one year of mainly “virtual” cooperation, the project partners met as a team for the first time. The meeting took place in a nice and efficient atmosphere. All partners presented their plans for the future project contribution, joint working plans were elaborated, organisational matters discussed and interfaces between working teams defined. In addition, the cooperation with our partner project South Baltic Offer was planned in further detail.

10-06-15 - Kristina Koebe
Representatives of the WEBSR2-project take place in the study trip planned and implemented by the team of the South Baltic Offer project. A visit to the offshore wind farm and the sciences centre in Guldburgsund are planned here. In addition, the contacts between partners of both projects shall be intensified.