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Halle (Saxony-Anhalt) / Vienna/ Paderborn, 12 March 2025. Energy transition company CCE Holding is building its first BESS plant in Halle an der Saale (Battery Energy Storage System) in Halle an der Saale. The storage facility with a nominal storage capacity of 20 MWh and an output of 10 MW is being built as a stand-alone facility. For the realisation of this project CCE Holding has entered into a strategic partnership with INTILION AG from Paderborn, a specialist in battery storage solutions. specialist for battery storage solutions. The storage of sustainably generated electricity is electricity is essential in order to be able to increasingly dispense with conventionally generated electricity conventionally generated electricity on days with little wind and sun.

The battery storage system will make renewable energy more flexible for around 3,600 households in the city. Daniel Zwick, Head of the Halle Climate Protection Service Centre: ‘The city of Halle is very active in terms of climate protection, and this system allows the weather-dependent oversupply or undersupply of green electricity can be sensibly regulated.’

Martin Dürnberger and Jörg Menyesch, the two CEOs of CCE Holding, are also delighted with the start of construction: ‘Without storage solutions, the expansion of renewable energies will falter in the coming months and years to come. We are proud that our planned energy storage systems will enable the further progress of the energy transition.’

INTILION is not only supplying the battery storage system, but is also taking on the complete integration. ‘We will start setting up the construction site in the next few days. This will be followed by construction of the concrete foundation and laying the cable routes,’ explains Dr André Haubrock, CEO of INTILION. Commissioning of the plant is planned for late summer this year.

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