{"id":657,"date":"2019-06-18T15:54:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2020-02-07T17:50:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T16:50:50","slug":"against-the-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.phoenixcontact.com\/en\/against-the-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Against the flow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The S\u00fcdlink (south link) trunk line is going ahead. The aim of the project is to bring regenerative electricity to the south of Germany. In the north, it’s not just the wind that blows. Technologies also converge to form an exciting project. So, we went to have a look \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My colleague\nsays things like \u201cThe people at Enercon think differently to most in the\nindustry\u201d, and Bj\u00f6rn should know. Because Bj\u00f6rn knows Enercon. This shouldn’t\ncome as a surprise, because Bj\u00f6rn has already been managing the East Frisian\nregion for six years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are\ncurrently speeding silently through Blomberg, which is bathed in morning light.\nSilently, because the electric drive of the vehicle, a Golf GTE, that we have\norganized for our trip north to the wind Eldorado provides enough energy for around\n45 pure e-kilometers. This is befitting of our journey. At least, that is,\nuntil the hybrid vehicle runs out of charged energy and switches over to\npetrol. Although this is perhaps not ideal when it comes to a report about\nelectromobility and the avoidance of fossil-fuel-driven locomotion, but it is necessary\nto be able to complete today’s round trip of approximately 560 kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the\nnorth<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We are\nBj\u00f6rn B\u00fclter and Lutz Odewald. Bj\u00f6rn is not just an electrical engineer \u2013 he is\nalso a Phoenix Contact Key Account Manager. He has also been active in the wind\nindustry for a good 20 years \u2013 from manufacturing to service (\u201cI can also carry\nout maintenance on a turbine\u201d), through to customer support. At the last Wind\ntrade fair in Hamburg, he explained that Enercon would now also be developing\ncharging stations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This\nprompted me to ask whether we would be able to take an even closer look. After\nall, as a journalist responsible for the UPDATE magazine, I have been uniting\nthe interests of the renewable energies and automobile sectors for a long time\nnow with enthusiasm and commitment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A couple of\ntelephone calls and e-mails, and a few weeks later we are sitting in the\nE-Golf, on our way to meet one of the most interesting players in the global\nwind business. What is driving energy plant manufacturers and energy generators\nto become actively involved in electromobility?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enercon is\nthe largest wind turbine builder in Germany and, as the fifth largest onshore\nmanufacturer in the world, is very well positioned. The company is\nheadquartered in Aurich in East Friesland. This is a stroke of luck for the\nregion, because before the wind energy titan became established there, Aurich\nwas mostly flat, green, and quite far from the beaten track. Typical East\nFriesland, in other words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foul\nweather<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

While Bj\u00f6rn\nis imparting his knowledge, high winds are whipping up the rain clouds. The\nwind farm operators welcome this type of weather \u2013 a full load is on the cards.\nThis is typical North German weather anyway, so it’s quite fitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Golf\nhas depleted the small amount of energy stored in the electric drive by the\ntime we reach the freeway. From now on, petrol is our source of power. Even\nthough I am not a fan of combined propulsion systems \u2013 both the battery and the\nfuel tank are small to ensure that the combined weight of the energy sources is\nnot too high \u2013 no driving bans are going to get in the way of this vehicle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \ufb01rst\nrays of hope<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The North\nGerman lowlands extend far across the horizon. The sky is low, rain is pelting\nagainst the windscreen. Exactly the right weather to learn more about Enercon\nfrom Bj\u00f6rn. \u201cEnercon has always embraced new areas of business early on. For example,\nthe company realized that it could set itself apart from the competition in the\narea of service. And did so much earlier than anybody else. The vertical range\nof manufacture at the company is also unique worldwide. With its numerous\nsubsidiaries, the East Friesland company produces generators, nacelles,\nconcrete and steel tubular towers, rotor blades, controllers, power\nelectronics, and a part of the cast components in its own factories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shortly\nbefore reaching Aurich, we drive past one of the few surviving old grain\nwindmills. The electricity generating windmill also has a long history. As\nearly as 1887, the Scotsman James Blyth built one of the first systems to\nsupply energy to what at the time was his holiday home. At the same time,\nCharles Francis Brush built an electricity windmill in Ohio which was equipped\nwith a two-stage gearbox. The 20 meter high system drove a 12 kW generator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city of chieftains<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We finally\npass the city limits of Aurich, the old chieftain town of the Frisians. That’s\nright, the Frisians were led by chieftains right up until the middle ages. For\na long time, they were even elected. This independent and headstrong folk are\nstill considered renitent today when it comes to introducing new things and the\nunknown. It is therefore all the more surprising that the electrical engineer Aloys\nWobben established his company headquarters here, as far back as 1984. He began\nwith three employees. Today, the company is a global player with worldwide\nproduction facilities and systems in more than 45 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As we drive\nup to the \u201cE-Charger 600\u201d, Tobias Trauernicht is already waiting for us. The\npersonable engineer arrived in the in-house E-Golf, because our hybrid is not\ncompatible with “fast” DC charging. The sun has long gone, and the\nwind is driving the rain horizontally through the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 minutes for 400 kilometers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This\ndoesn’t affect the 350 kW fast charging station at all. \u201cThis is still a\nprototype, but Enercon is planning to start series production in 2019\u201d, enthuses\nTrauernicht, unfazed by the thrashing rain. \u201cWith the right vehicle, enough\nenergy for 400 kilometers can be charged in just eight minutes.\u201d He glances\nslightly sympathetically at our hybrid, which can only dream of charging rates\nsuch as this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Naturally,\nwe are pleased to see on first glance the Phoenix Contact charging connector,\nwhich is also capable of transporting significantly higher currents thanks to\nactive cooling. The charging connector, however, is not the only part to originate\nfrom East Westphalia. \u201cEnercon and Phoenix Contact have entered into a\ndevelopment cooperation here and are also taking a decisive step forward\ntogether in relation to the subject of charging stations. For Enercon, this is\na significant development, because together we are opening up an entirely new\nfield of business. We are facing up to structural changes, not only in the area\nof regenerative energy, but also mobility.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently,\nwhat is already being lived and breathed as a corporate philosophy at Phoenix Contact\nis also becoming an integral part of our collaboration in Aurich. If\nelectromobility and regenerative energies are considered as parts of a whole, this\nwould appear to be a logical development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charging pole paradoxon<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Not logical, but typical: the rain just does not stop. Nevertheless, we stop off on the return journey at a highway service area \u2013 a pictogram with charging station beckons us and our e-runabout. It’s almost needless to say that here too we are also greeted by a Phoenix Contact charging connector \u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fact that we are not able to charge due to missing cards just goes to show that the S\u00fcdlink power line is not the only project that has a long way to go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that’s another story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.enercon.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.phoenixcontact-emobility.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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