Showering with wind power: This is how households use excess energy!

Showering with wind power: This is how households use excess energy!

A promising project in Schleswig-Holstein could have a great influence on dealing with excess green electricity. The Prokon energy cooperative plans to install 100 households in Dithmarschen and Nordfriesland, which are intended to use excess wind power, which is otherwise incorporated into the network or will be settled. The heating elevator, of which Gunnar Hinrichsen in Galmsbüll is enthusiastic about, works like a large immersion and is activated when wind turbines produce more electricity than can be used up. Instead of paying 14 cents per kilowatt hour for gas, the family could only raise 6.5 cents for electricity from wind energy, explains Hinrichsen. This technology could revolutionize the hot water system and enable the households to shower more environmentally friendly, such as NDR reported .

technological challenges and solutions

The approach sounds promising, but also carries risks. In their performance, the conventional heating rods cannot react flexibly to the available electricity. Operators of photovoltaic systems are often faced with the choice of either obtaining additional network current or dining out excess electricity into low feed -in tariffs, according to efahrer.com . More effective alternatives are continuously adjustable heating rods that can dynamically adapt the heating output based on the amount of available solar power. This technology, which can be more expensive to buy, could help reduce energy costs and to optimize the use of excess energy.

With a growing interest in renewable energies and a legal new regulation that enables such projects such as "wind showers", the question of efficiency and economic advantages of heating technologies in private households is becoming increasingly urgent. The project could not only increase the acceptance of wind energy in the population, but also contribute to stabilizing the future energy system depending on the successful course.