{"id":453,"date":"2017-03-23T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=453"},"modified":"2017-03-23T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:12:16","slug":"from-the-web-germany-converts-coal-mine-into-giant-battery-storage-for-surplus-solar-and-wind-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/23\/from-the-web-germany-converts-coal-mine-into-giant-battery-storage-for-surplus-solar-and-wind-power\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Germany Converts Coal Mine Into Giant Battery Storage for Surplus Solar and Wind Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-455\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-10.05.38-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1516\" height=\"1184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-10.05.38-AM.png 1516w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-10.05.38-AM-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-10.05.38-AM-768x600.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-10.05.38-AM-1024x800.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-10.05.38-AM-384x300.png 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Germany<\/strong> is embarking on an innovative project to <strong>turn a coal mine<\/strong> into a <strong>giant battery<\/strong> that can store surplus solar and wind energy and release it when supplies are lean.<\/p>\n<p>The Prosper-Haniel coal mine in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia will be converted into a 200 megawatt pumped-storage hydroelectric reservoir that acts like a giant battery. The capacity is enough to power more than 400,000 homes, according to Governor Hannelore Kraft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/coal-mine-hydroelectric-2321724350.html\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a><em> (via EcoWatch)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany is embarking on an innovative project to turn a coal mine into a giant battery that can store surplus solar and wind energy and release it when supplies are lean. The Prosper-Haniel coal mine in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia will be converted into a 200 megawatt pumped-storage hydroelectric reservoir that acts like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/23\/from-the-web-germany-converts-coal-mine-into-giant-battery-storage-for-surplus-solar-and-wind-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Germany Converts Coal Mine Into Giant Battery Storage for Surplus Solar and Wind Power&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[41478,4433],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-innovation","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-7j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}