Published on
29/05/2026 - 15:00 GMT+2
Feldheim’s 130 residents draw their electricity and heating from a cluster of wind turbines on the village outskirts, a biogas plant fed by local corn silage and manure, a solar park on a former Soviet military site and a wood chip boiler as backup. Together, the installations produce way more energy than the village actually needs; the surplus current is sold to the national grid.
A ten-megawatt battery storage facility, part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, keeps the local grid stable when conditions change.
Making it all work took some creative thinking — including building an entirely new electricity grid when the big utility companies refused to play ball. But for Michael Raschemann, the head of Energiequelle — the energy company behind the project — it proves that at this scale, energy self-sufficiency is not just possible — it’s essential.
