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.
Position Vacant
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)
Prof. Dr. Jan Wenske (Fraunhofer IWES)
HanseWerk, Stadtreinigung Hamburg, WEMAG
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
HanseWerk AG
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
Die NRL-Arbeitsgruppe “Mobilität” (AG 7) zielt darauf zu zeigen, wie eine vollständig “grĂĽne”, also emissionsfreie Mobilität durch den Einsatz von Wasserstoff als Energieträger möglich wird. Dazu werden Vorhaben entlang der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette umgesetzt – von der Beschaffung von H2-Linienbussen ĂĽber den Einsatz von wasserstoffbetriebenen Abfallsammelfahrzeugen bis hin zum Betankungskonzept. Die Förderpartner werden durch das Bundesministerium fĂĽr Digitales und Verkehr (BMDV) gefördert.
Peter Lindlahr (hySOLUTIONS)
Martin Kalla (hySOLUTIONS)
Hamburger Hochbahn, Flughafen Hamburg, Alphabet Fuhrparkmanagement, Schweriner Abfallentsorgungsgesellschaft (SAS), WEMAG, Stadtreinigung Hamburg, Volker Rumstich Transport, Nahverker Schwerin, hySOLUTIONS
Entsorgungsbetriebe LĂĽbeck, Verkehrsbetrieb Hamburg-Holstein (vhh), Stadtwerke Schwerin, Clean Logistics, LĂĽbecker Hafengesellschaft
Ziel der Mobilitätsprojekte des NRL ist die Umsetzung und Demonstration vollständig “grĂĽner”, d.h. treibhausgasfreier, Mobilität entlang der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette. Hierzu gehört die H2-Produktion aus erneuerbaren Energien, die Logistik des grĂĽnen H2 vom Produktionsort zur Tankstelle und der Einsatz emissionsfreier Fahrzeuge aus verschiedenen Fahrzeugklassen. Dabei werden die Fahrzeuge im Regelbetrieb eingesetzt, um so die Alltagstauglichkeit grĂĽner Mobilität zu demonstrieren.
Beteiligte Partner
Hamburger Hochbahn, Flughafen Hamburg, Alphabet Fuhrparkmanagement, SAS, WEMAG, Entsorgungsbetriebe LĂĽbeck, vhh, Stadtwerke Schwerin, Stadtreinigung Hamburg, Clean Logistics, LĂĽbecker Hafengesellschaft, Volker Rumstich Transport, Nahverkehr Schwerin, hySOLUTIONS
Innovative Lösungen zur Dekarbonisierung der Wärmeversorgung werden in der Arbeitsgruppe “Wärme/Quartiere” (AG 8) umgesetzt. Neben der Erprobung neuer Heizkonzepte durch industrielle Abwärme geht es in der AG 8 auch darum, mögliche Synergien zwischen den Vorhaben zu erschlieĂźen, um die Wärmewende voranzutreiben. Ein wichtiges Element dabei ist der Bau eines Aquiferspeichers zur saisonalen Speicherung von Wärme.
Burkhard Warmuth (Hamburger Energiewerke)
Mike Blicker (CC4E/HAW Hamburg)
Hamburger Energiewerke, CC4E/HAW Hamburg, Aurubis, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), Technische Universität Hamburg
Contitech, Stadtwerke Schwerin, MĂĽllverwertung BorsigstraĂźe (MVB)
Ein Aquiferspeicher ist ein unterirdischer Speicher, der Wärme aufnimmt, hält und wieder abgeben kann. In den Sommermonaten kann so fĂĽr die Wintermonate COâ‚‚-neutral vorgesorgt werden. Dieses Speichermodell wird in diesem Teilvorhaben des Norddeutschen Reallabors umgesetzt und erprobt.Â
Beteiligte Partner
Hamburger Energiewerke, CAU, TUHH
Die Arbeitsgruppe “Industrie” (AG 9) erschlieĂźt Innovationspotenziale fĂĽr die Sektorenkopplung und erprobt den Einsatz von grĂĽnem Wasserstoff im industriellen MaĂźstab. Dabei geht es auch um die Identifikation technischer Grenzen der Substitution fossiler Brennstoffe durch Wasserstoff und um die Stärkung der regionalen Industrie durch gezielten Kompetenzaufbau im Bereich der Sektorenkopplung.
Christian Hein (Aurubis)
Simon Brinkmann (Covestro)
Aurubis, CC4E/HAW Hamburg
trimet, H&R Ă–lwerke Schindler, ArcelorMittal, Contitech, Covestro, Holborn Europa Raffinerie
In diesem innovativen Industrie-Projekt wird der Einsatz von Wasserstoff in der Kupferproduktion erprobt. Auf dem Aurubis-Werksgelände wird zudem ein Elektrolyseur die Steigerung der Sektorenkopplung zwischen Energiewirtschaft und Industrie unterstützen.
Beteiligte Partner
Aurubis, CC4E/HAW Hamburg
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
