Power plant · Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, Germany
Batteriespeicher PowerCenter Salzgitter 1 (PowerCenter Salzgitter 1 battery storage)
Batteriespeicher PowerCenter Salzgitter 1 is a planned battery storage plant in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, Germany, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by Volkswagen Group Charging.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Salzgitter | Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | 38239 Salzgitter | Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned | Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Volkswagen Group Charging | Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 20 MW | Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Storage capacity | 40 MWh | Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery storage | Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Avacon Netz GmbH | Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid connection level | Medium voltage (Mittelspannung) | Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 52.1881, 10.4503 | Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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PowerCenter Salzgitter 1 is the 221st-largest of 383 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Lower Saxony and the 1,128th-largest of 2,173 in Germany by capacity; its 20 MW is <0.1% of the 78,152 MW of power plants planned, permitted or under construction we hold for Germany. It is not built yet, so it is ranked among the power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data, apart from the ones running today. Ranks and totals cover the ones that report their capacity.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Saxony | 221st of 383 | 10,881 MW | 0.18% |
| Germany | 1,128th of 2,173 | 78,152 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,589th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 129 substations, 9 CO2 emitters (8,960,466 tCO2e) and 4 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VW Salzgitter | Substation | — | — | 0.3 km |
| UW Thiede | Substation | — | — | 0.5 km |
| Wärmöfen Warmbreitbandwalzwerk | CO2 emitter | 285,316 tCO2e | — | 2.9 km |
| Glocke Salzgitter | CO2 emitter | 3,497,812 tCO2e | — | 3.2 km |
| Kraftwerk Hallendorf | CO2 emitter | 3,153,899 tCO2e | — | 3.2 km |
| Umspannwerk Walzwerk (UWWW) | Substation | — | — | 3.3 km |
| Gauß-IT-Zentrum | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| PDV Systeme GmbH data center, Lower Saxony | Data center | — | — | 29 km |
| Avacon AG Data Center Sehnde | Data center | — | — | 35 km |
Operator, grid operator and place
Other power plants in Lower Saxony
- Emsland1,645 MW
- Grohnde1,360 MW
- Emsland A1,336 MW
- Kraftwerk Wilhelmshaven Onyx726 MW
- Wilhelmshaven 1 DT715 MW
- KWM Block 3690 MW
- Kraftwerk Emden Dampfturbine433 MW
- Kraftwerk Landesbergen Dampfturbine431 MW
Data on this page
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- European Commission, Union Registry. EU Union Registry public data, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.