Behind the eye-popping headline number sits a misfiring connection regime that rewards speed over substance—and risks slowing, not speeding, the energy transition.
The number that broke the internet (meter)
In the past few days, Germany’s grid operators have confirmed they are now sitting on more than 500 GW of grid-connection requests for large battery energy storage systems (BESS). The figure comes from a fresh tally by the analyst platform Regelleistung-Online, which totted up 470.5 GW from the four transmission system operators (TSOs) plus just three of the country’s ~800 distribution system operators (DSOs). That implies the true total “is certainly above 500 GW.”
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