Hungary enhances its energy self-sufficiency by installing modern-day storage facilities and doubling the capacity at Soroksar to absorb solar energy and fortify the grid stability.

Hungary has made another significant move towards energy independence with the opening of the new energy storage units of E.On Hungaria in Soroksar. State Secretary of Energy Attila Steiner emphasized storage technology since nowadays solar power makes 25 percent of the electricity in the country.

The government has already provided over 160 billion forints to the grid development and another 62 billion forints to large-scale storage capacity expansion. With the help of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Soroksar project will utilize the liquid-cooled storage technology to increase capacity twice so as to integrate green energy more and provide stability to the grid.

The new facility of E.On Hungaria has 16 outdoor battery cabinets with a capacity of 5.5 megawatt-hours serving at 2.5 megawatts. The connected smart-grid system can be remotely controlled, which is an advance in efficiency and innovation.

According to the officials, the technology of high-level storage decreases the use of imports and enables Hungary to sell the excess electricity on the sunny days, which once again contributes to the Hungarian status as the leader in the sphere of clean energy.