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December 01, 2023

Pioneering pilot project: this Mega Charger turns night into day

In collaboration with Designwerk Technologies AG, Galliker will be using the Megawatt Charging System from spring 2024 as a storage system for its own solar power plus as a battery buffer for charging its own electric fleet. The new Mega Charger was presented by Designwerk to the media, partners and customers in Winterthur on November 28 - as a pioneering project that is also intended to significantly advance the electrification of the heavy transport industry in the spirit of "Green Logistics by Galliker".
It is renewable, its production is CO2-neutral and at Galliker it is available in such high quantities that it can be used to charge a large part of the electric fleet: Solar energy. However, the electricity generated from the sun's warming rays has one disadvantage: it is mainly available during the day and in good weather. This is exactly when the transport fleet must be on the road - while the charging time at night brings neither sunlight nor heat.
Last Tuesday, Designwerk AG presented the best solution yet for the imbalance between electricity production and demand with the launch of the Mega Charger. Used for the first time at Galliker from spring 2024, the container battery has a storage capacity of just under one megawatt hour - it can optionally be upgraded to over two megawatt hours. This storage system not only turns night into day in terms of power availability - "battery-buffered" is the keyword for the additional added value offered by the Megawatt Charging System (MCS). In addition to the distribution of electricity throughout the day and night, overloading of the grid is also avoided, as the two CCS charging points, each with a capacity of 350 kilowatts DC, draw their energy from the battery and thus protect the Aare grid from excessive peak loads. This is an important way of balancing the otherwise highly fluctuating energy supply with the increasing electromobility in the heavy goods transport sector.

The 8.6-metre-long, 2.55-metre-wide and 3-metre-high Mega Charger used at Galliker is the first Designwerk product of this size. Operations are scheduled to start in spring 2024.