A number of research and testing projects are implemented under the umbrella of the Northern German Living Lab (NRL). These sub-projects (SP) of the NRL partners are assigned to different working groups (WG). This structure provides the project partners with a common all-round view of the energy transition in order to take a holistic view of the transformation path to climate neutrality. The following overview provides an insight into the NRL sub-projects that are already being implemented.
The planning, implementation and control of the Northern German Living Lab and its sub-projects requires an efficient organizational structure. Due to the overall systemic approach across many technological fields, a high level of control and coordination is required. The Project Management Office (PMO) serves as an organizational unit to support the NRL management bodies in the operational implementation of the overall project.
Mike Blicker (Project Coordinator, CC4E/HAW Hamburg)
Competence Center fĂĽr Erneuerbare Energien und EnergieEffizienz (CC4E)/Hochschule fĂĽr Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW Hamburg), hySOLUTIONS
The Project Management Office (PMO) ensures transparent information flows within the NRL and promotes the cross-working group networking of the partners. Further tasks include the coordination of reporting for the NRL as a funded project, the monitoring of activities in the subprojects and the (professional) public exploitation of project results.
Participating Partners
CC4E/HAW Hamburg, hySOLUTIONS
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The NRL working group “Networks & Infrastructures ” (WG 1) sets itself the goal of increasing the uptake of energy sources from renewable energies in the distribution grids to be able to supply all sectors with green energy. A roadmap for the necessary transformation of the energy grids in the Northern German region is to be drafted – using individual regional hubs as examples. In particular, the development of an integrated network planning of electricity and gas networks is in focus to make a cross-sectoral energy transition possible.
Michael Dammann (Gasnetz Hamburg)
Volker Höfs (HanseGas)
Gasnetz Hamburg, Hamburger Energiewerke, Helmut Schmidt Universität der Bundeswehr (HSU), Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH), Technische Hochschule Lübeck (THL), WEMAG
Stromnetz Hamburg, Gasunie, HanseGas, Schleswig-Holstein Netz, TenneT, 50Hertz, Grenzstrom BĂĽrgerwind
In the Integrated Network Planning (iNeP) project, a planning methodology, a planning model and a corresponding planning model and a corresponding planning tool are being developed by presenting a coordinated, integrative network planning (electricity, gas and heat network) including power-to-x plant coupling for Hamburg.
Participating Partners
Gasnetz Hamburg, Stromnetz Hamburg, Hamburger Energiewerke, TUHH, HSU/Distributed Energy Laboratory (DLab), THL
This joint project consisting of the subprojects “Electricity grids and infrastructure” & “System-serving electrolysis” demonstrates the importance of a holistically conceived sector coupling. Surplus electricity is used to operate an electrolyser and the green hydrogen produced from it is made available for other sectors (mobility, heat, gas).
Participating Partners
WEMAG
In the working group “Overall System Integration” (WG 2), the influences of the technologies considered in the NRL on the overall system are investigated. In this context, strategies are also to be developed that enable the greater use of sector coupling technologies. A major milestone of WG 2 is a simulative potential analysis of the developed technologies and their novel operational management.
Lucas JĂĽrgens (CC4E/HAW Hamburg)
Dr. Sebastian Wende-von Berg (Fraunhofer IEE)
Competence Center für Erneuerbare Energien und EnergieEffizienz (CC4E)/Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW Hamburg), Fraunhofer Institut für Energiewirtschaft und Energiesystemtechnik (IEE), Fraunhofer Institut für Windenergiesysteme (IWES), Technische Hochschule Lübeck (THL), Universität Hamburg (UHH)
Gasunie, Stadtwerke LĂĽbeck, Travenetz
The aim of the project “Overall system simulation” is to simulate and summarize the existing energy infrastructures and demonstrators. This allows an early focus on possible effects on the (changing) energy system and the necessary concepts/scenarios for the future can be derived.
Participating Partners
CC4E/HAW Hamburg, Fraunhofer IEE, Fraunhofer IWES, THLÂ
ResIKT plans and addresses various threat scenarios in the area of information technology security in the context of hydrogen generation and sector coupling. The digitization of the energy sector offers the opportunity to plan for security aspects from the outset.
Participating Partners
UHH
In the sub-project “Data integration and analysis”, both the data requirements of the planned simulation and the project-wide existing data of the relevant plants are combined and evaluated.
Participating Partners
CC4E/HAW Hamburg
The working group “Industrial Transformation, Social Participation & Transfer” (WG 3) research which factors accelerate the industrial transformation. On the basis of scenarios on the market development of sector coupling technologies, guiding strategies for accelerating the market ramp-up in Northern Germany are developed. WG 3 is also responsible for knowledge transfer to networks and specialist communities.
Dr. Sandra Meyer-Ghosh (CC4E/HAW Hamburg)
Hubert Grimm (Industrieverband Hamburg)
Competence Center fĂĽr Erneuerbare Energien und EnergieEffizienz (CC4E)/Hochschule fĂĽr Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW Hamburg)
Erneuerbare Energien Hamburg Clusteragentur (EEHH), Industrieverband Hamburg (ivh), Handelskammer Hamburg, Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB) Nord,
egw:wirtschaftsförderung, Gesellschaft für Energie und Klimaschutz Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (EKSH) / Landeskompetenzzentrum Wasserstoff-Forschung Schleswig-Holstein (HY.SH), Regionale Kooperation Westküste / Projektgesellschaft Norderelbe mbH
The sub-project accompanies the technological projects of the NRL with socio-economic questions. Research is being conducted into how the industrial use and thus the market ramp-up of sector coupling technologies can be accelerated in the project region by 2030 using the example of the NRL-Testing Projects through the targeted participation of the relevant stakeholders.
Participating Partners
CC4E/HAW Hamburg
In the sub-project “B2B Transfer”, instruments of communication science are used to familiarize the target groups with individual projects, innovations and results. In order to achieve the set goals, a mix of instruments will be used. Through these measures, EEHH GmbH will assume a function as a first contact point for potential interested parties and will mediate a targeted forwarding of inquiries to suitable consortium members.
Participating Partners
EEHH
The NRL working group “National Economy, Labor Market & Qualification” (WG 4) considers the economic potential of the technologies developed in the Northern German Living Lab. Among other things, effects on the demand for labor in the model region are modeled and financing potentials for sustainable business models are identified.
Prof. Dr. Jens-Eric von DĂĽsterlho (CC4E/HAW Hamburg)
Andreas Lagemann (Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI))
Competence Center fĂĽr Erneuerbare Energien und EnergieEffizienz (CC4E)/Hochschule fĂĽr Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW Hamburg), Hamburgisches Weltwirtschaftsinstitut (HWWI)
Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB) Nord
The economic effects of a power-to-gas infrastructure for the Northern German region are analyzed in this project. One focus is the model-based evaluation of the economic potential, the second focus is the evaluation of the current market situation in the finance segment “Sustainable Finance”. From this, financing potentials will be identified.
Participating Partners
CC4E/HAW Hamburg, HWWI
Investigating the innovative market and business models in the Northern German Living Lab is the task of the “New Markets, Business Models & Regulatory Affairs” working group (WG5). The legal framework conditions are also of interest here. Concrete options for action to reduce regulatory barriers are to be derived from the analysis.
Oliver Antoni (Stiftung Umweltenergierecht)
Stiftung Umweltenergierecht, Competence Center für Erneuerbare Energien und EnergieEffizienz (CC4E)/Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW Hamburg), Hochschule Flensburg, Fraunhofer Institut für Energiewirtschaft und Energiesystemtechnik (IEE)
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Only if sufficiently economically attractive operation appears possible will the investments required to achieve the transformation goals also be made outside a real laboratory in the future. This subproject therefore addresses the challenges of regulation and new market and business models. Recommendations for action will be derived in this context.
Participating Partners
Stiftung Umweltenergierecht, CC4E/HAW Hamburg, Hochschule Flensburg, Fraunhofer IEE
The heart of the hydrogen activities of the Northern German Living Lab is the working group “Hydrogen Generation” (WG 6). The participating NRL partners work on hydrogen production in the Northern German model region as a basis for the regional basic supply with green hydrogen. In addition to the construction of electrolysers, the aim is also to bundle the production, distribution and use of hydrogen. In this way, local value chains are to be established and the regional economy strengthened.
Marleen Marks (HanseWerk/HAzwei)
Dr. Georg Pangalos (Fraunhofer IWES)
HAzwei, Stadtreinigung Hamburg, WEMAG
HanseWerk, Energie des Nordens, Flughafen Hamburg, Fraunhofer Institut für Windenergiesysteme (IWES), Grenzstrom Bürgerwind, KMW Wind to Gas energy, Stadtwerke Lübeck, Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH)
The focus of the subproject is the realization of a 25 MWel large-scale electrolyser in the Hamburg port area. The goal is the gradual development of various consumption sectors (especially industry and mobility). The plant is to function as a central production hub for green hydrogen and serve the growing demand for hydrogen in the Hamburg area.
Participating Partners
HAzwei
In this subproject, the synergy potentials for power-to-X are investigated at a biowaste treatment plant with fermentation stage, biomethane production and feed-in into the natural gas grid with particularly low process engineering effort. Hydrogen from a new electrolyser is to be coupled with an existing biowaste treatment plant.
Participating Partners
Stadtreinigung Hamburg AöR und TUHH
The aim of the sub-project is the construction and system-serving operation of an electrolyser with a capacity of five megawatts in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. With the help of this power-to-gas technology, green energy from the region will be made usable for other sectors (mobility, heat, gas) via the chemical element hydrogen, thereby leading to corresponding CO2 savings compared to conventional hydrogen production.
Participating Partners
WEMAG AG
With the Windgas Haurup project, Energie des Nordens makes surplus wind power storable thanks to power-to-gas technology. The continued use of wind farms for which EEG subsidies have expired also flows into the project. The project was already part of the North German Energy Transition 4.0 (NEW 4.0) program, which tested technologies with particular benefits for the energy transition in practice.
Participating Partners
Energie des Nordens
At the wind-to-gas park in BrunsbĂĽttel, KMW Wind to Gas Energy uses surplus electricity from five wind turbines, converts it into hydrogen using an electrolysis process and thus makes the energy storable. The power-to-gas plant produces up to 450 cubic meters of hydrogen per hour and either feeds the gas into the natural gas grid or delivers it to a neighboring hydrogen filling station. The project was already part of the North German Energy Transition 4.0 (NEW 4.0) program.
Participating Partners
KMW Wind to Gas energy
At the Bremerhaven site, Fraunhofer IWES is building an electrolyser test field as part of the so-called “Hydrogen Labs”. The focus of the research is on the interaction of wind turbines with electrolytic hydrogen production.
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Participating Partners
Fraunhofer IWES
The NRL working group “Mobility” (WG 7) aims to show how completely “green”, i.e. emission-free, mobility becomes possible through the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier. To this end, projects along the entire value chain are being implemented – from the procurement of H2 buses to the use of hydrogen-powered waste collection vehicles and the refueling concept. The Funding Partners are supported by the Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV).
Peter Lindlahr (hySOLUTIONS)
Janne Schrieber (hySOLUTIONS)
Hamburger Hochbahn, Flughafen Hamburg, Alphabet Fuhrparkmanagement, Schweriner Abfallentsorgungsgesellschaft (SAS), WEMAG, Stadtreinigung Hamburg, Nahverkehr Schwerin, hySOLUTIONS
Entsorgungsbetriebe LĂĽbeck, Verkehrsbetrieb Hamburg-Holstein (vhh), Stadtwerke Schwerin, Clean Logistics, LĂĽbecker Hafengesellschaft
The aim of the sub-project is to implement and demonstrate completely “green”, i.e. greenhouse gas-free, mobility in individual transport. To this end, zero-emission vehicles are to be procured and deployed. These vehicles will be used under a leasing agreement to demonstrate the everyday suitability of green mobility. The knowledge gained from this will be used to investigate the specific requirements for business and operator models of individual transport and their market readiness.
Participating Partners
Alphabet Fuhrparkmanagement GmbH
The aim of the sub-project is to implement and demonstrate completely “green”, i.e. greenhouse gas-free, mobility in local public transport. To this end, zero-emission vehicles are to be procured and deployed. These vehicles will be used in regular operation to demonstrate the suitability of green mobility for everyday use. The knowledge gained from this will be used to investigate the specific requirements for business and operator models of local public transport and their market readiness.
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Participating Partners
Hamburger Hochbahn, Verkehrsbetrieb Hamburg-Holstein GmbH, Nahverkehr Schwerin GmbH
The aim of the sub-project is to implement and demonstrate completely “green”, i.e. greenhouse gas-free, mobility in waste disposal & city cleaning. To this end, zero-emission vehicles are to be procured and deployed. These vehicles will be used in regular operation to demonstrate the suitability of green mobility for everyday use. The knowledge gained from this will be incorporated into the investigation of the specific requirements for business and operator models in waste disposal & urban cleaning and its market readiness.
Participating Partners
Schweriner Abfallentsorgungsges. mbH (SAS), Entsorgungsbetriebe LĂĽbeck, Stadtreinigung Hamburg
The aim of the sub-project is to implement and demonstrate completely “green”, i.e. greenhouse gas-free, mobility on the airport apron. To this end, zero-emission vehicles are to be procured and deployed. These vehicles will be used in regular operation to demonstrate the everyday suitability of green mobility. The knowledge gained from this will be used to investigate the specific requirements for business and operator models for airport apron transport and its market readiness.
Participating Partners
Flughafen Hamburg GmbH
Innovative solutions for decarbonizing the heat supply are being implemented in the “Heat/Quarters” working group (WG 8). In addition to testing new heating concepts using industrial waste heat, WG 8 also aims to exploit possible synergies between the projects in order to drive forward the heat transition. An important element here is the construction of an aquifer storage facility for the seasonal storage of heat.
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Hamburger Energiewerke, Competence Center für Erneuerbare Energien und EnergieEffizienz (CC4E)/Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW Hamburg), Aurubis, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH)
Stadtwerke Schwerin, MĂĽllverwertung BorsigstraĂźe (MVB)
An aquifer storage tank is an underground storage tank that absorbs, holds and can release heat. In the summer months, it can provide COâ‚‚-neutral heat for the winter months. This storage model is being implemented and tested in this subproject of the Northern German Living Lab.
Participating Partners
Hamburger Energiewerke, CAU, TUHH
In this project, around 20,000 households will be supplied with CO2-free industrial waste heat from a secondary process in Aurubis’ copper production starting in the 2024/2025 heating period.
Participating Partners
Aurubis
In this project, special heat pumps will be installed at the waste incineration plant Borsigstrasse, with which exhaust air from the plant can be made usable for district heating. This will make it possible to supply almost 35,000 apartments from as early as 2023.
Participating Partners
MĂĽllverwertungsanlage BorsigstraĂźe (MVB)
The “Industry” working group (WG 9) is tapping innovation potential for sector coupling and testing the use of green hydrogen on an industrial scale. This also involves identifying technical limits to the substitution of fossil fuels with hydrogen and strengthening regional industry through targeted competence building in the area of sector coupling.
Christian Hein (Aurubis)
Simon Brinkmann (Covestro)
Aurubis, Competence Center fĂĽr Erneuerbare Energien und EnergieEffizienz (CC4E)/Hochschule fĂĽr Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW Hamburg)
trimet, H&R Ă–lwerke Schindler, ArcelorMittal, Contitech, Covestro, Holborn Europa Raffinerie
The use of hydrogen in copper production is being tested in this innovative industrial project. In addition, an electrolyser on the Aurubis plant site will support the increase in sector coupling between the energy sector and industry.
Participating Partners
Aurubis, CC4E/HAW Hamburg
H&R Ă–lwerke Schindler was already able to commission a new power-to-liquid plant at the Hamburg site towards the end of 2022. This will enable the production of synthesis-based alternatives to fossil raw materials, especially synthetic raw waxes and e-fuels.
Participating Partners
H&R Ă–lwerke Schindler GmbH
