Editing Energy storage (section)

=== Germany ===
In 2013, the German government allocated €200M (approximately US$270M) for research, and another €50M to subsidize battery storage in residential rooftop solar panels, according to a representative of the German Energy Storage Association.<ref name="NYTimes-2013.10.13"/>

[[Siemens|Siemens AG]] commissioned a production-research plant to open in 2015 at the ''Zentrum für Sonnenenergie und Wasserstoff (ZSW,'' the German Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research in the [[Baden-Württemberg|State of Baden-Württemberg]]), a university/industry collaboration in Stuttgart, Ulm and Widderstall, staffed by approximately 350 scientists, researchers, engineers, and technicians. The plant develops new near-production manufacturing materials and processes (NPMM&P) using a computerized [[SCADA|Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition]] (SCADA) system. It aims to enable the expansion of [[rechargeable battery]] production with increased quality and lower cost.<ref name="Physics.org.a" /><ref name="ZSW-BW.de" />

From 2023 onwards, a new project by the [[German Research Foundation]] focuses on [[Photoswitch|molecular photoswitches]] to store solar thermal energy. The spokesperson of these so-called molecular solar thermal (MOST) systems is Prof. Dr. Hermann A. Wegner.<ref name="DFG5499-2024.11.26"/>