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http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/0,1518,647227,00.html

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The organic power supplier bright spot wants to stir up the current market with Volkswagen: Umpteen thousands of block co-generation power station of the sign VW are supposed to be incorporated after MIRROR information soon in normal dwellings. So at least two nuclear power plants could be replaced.

Hamburg - the plan is ambitious - and should sign become yet in this week. The Hamburgers organic power supplier bright spot and the car group Volkswagen want to lock an exclusive contract valid worldwide to the building and to the marketing of highly efficient mini power plants. According to information from the MIRROR is planned that soon at least two large nuclear power plants or Kohlenmeiler are replaced by gas operated block co-generation power stations of the sign VW.

The small plants are installed after planning of both business soon to umpteen thousands in the cellars of normal apartment house. There they should allocate the necessary warmth for heatings and warm water requirement. Simultaneously the plants can feed in powerful quantities of current into the public network.

Thanks to intelligent control and networking, this should happen preferably then if at the market a high demand for electricity exists. This is for example the case if to changed weather situations thousands of wind wheels produce few or no current at all. Through the extremely fast reaction times, is named it in bright spot, could then 1000, 10,000 or as quick as lightning also 100,000 plants to a type virtual large power plant turned together become in order to feed in the necessary quantity of current into the public network.

For the extension of the renewable energies, that would be a further progress. Expensive shadow power plants, that are available today to the balance of the fluctuating current quantities, possibly could be saved.