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Till Stehr

Till Stehr

German BESS research analyst at Modo Energy, specializing in the German grid-scale battery storage market; formerly a European natural gas market reporter at Argus Media.

Jun 16, 2026

32:33
Yes.
32:33
It's kind of the, the property of a grid that has loads of spinning generators on it, and those spinning generators can f- uh, stabilize the frequency whenever the frequency changes, basically in real time.
32:43
Um, and now that we have loads of renewables on the system, those are all inverter-based rather than spinning.
32:49
Um, so the spinning generators are not on all the, all of the time, and then we have less inertia on the system, but batteries can provide that, or grid-forming inverters can provide that, and batteries are great at doing that.
33:01
Um, and yeah, I think that's one of the great stories in Germany where we see that, um ...
33:10
Yeah, the grid operators see what batteries can do and see what batteries can bring, and actually s- said, "Okay, well, we need to make a product for that.
33:17
We need to incentivize that."

6 MINS LATER

38:50
Um, how come a battery's making money off a dynamic grid fee?
17:20
How do you think about that?
17:21
Yeah, so I think there's two ways in which batteries can, because they have a very low marginal cost in almost anything they do, they can saturate any kind of market.
17:32
It just is a question of how much do you need to saturate it.
17:34
So even a day ahead market, if you build hundreds of gigawatts of batteries for a tiny market, then even the day ahead market will be saturated by these batteries, right? Because if they bid against one another, they have to really go low.
17:47
In the intraday, I think the way we think about it is that one thing is actually having to correct your forecast error.
17:53
I don't think that will go away, right? You will have that forecast error.
17:57
You will bid on the day ahead based on a certain view of the world.

21 MINS LATER

38:51
How come are batteries making money off a dynamic grid fee?

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