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Northern German Energy Transition
Innovation Alliance of Hamburg
and Schleswig-Holstein for
Future Energy Systems
»NEW 4.0« is a unique project initiative in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein combining the
forces of business, science and politics.
»NEW« stands for the Norddeutsche EnergieWende (Northern German Energy Transition)
and »4.0« refers to the brink of the fourth industrial revolution: the digitisation of industry resulting from the smart networking of systems, an
increasingly important component in the energy
transition. As a large-scale transnational project,
the aim of NEW 4.0 is to achieve a sustainable
energy supply and thereby ensure the future
viability of the region. More than 50 partners
from the region are combining all necessary
competencies and solution potentials to accelerate the energy transition in Northern Germany.
The Model Region
The alliance merges Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein into an ideal model region for the
»Show-case Smart Energy« funding programme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), with particular focus on wind energy. By generating 40 percent
of energy demand1 from renewables, on an annual base, the region has already achieved
the expansion corridor2 targets that the Federal Republic of Germany has pledged to reach
by 2025. As a showcase, the model region must prove its ability to cope with extreme imbalances in the generation and load situation.
While Hamburg represents a high-demand area, with only 3 percent of the demand covered
by renewable energies, Schleswig-Holstein can theoretically meet almost all of its demand
with renewable sources, and is accordingly exporting its power increasingly often. With an
increasing amount of ofshore wind farms, connecting to the region’s transmission grids,
and given its central geographic location between consumption centres to the south and
Scandinavian storage power plants to the north, the region is also developing at international level into an energy hub of Northern Europe. It should be possible to extrapolate the
generation/load imbalance problem in the region to other German and European regions:
A practical test is underway to demonstrate what a unique opportunity the energy transition presents and how the necessary transformation of the energy system can succeed.
NEW 4.0 thus showcases how the economic region and its population of 4.5 million can
already receive a stable supply from 100 percent renewable energy as of 2035.
The project will also create new marketing opportunities for the companies involved
and strengthen their competitiveness in a growing future market. Important beneits
for the Federal States include boosting of the regional economy, creation of new industrial value chains and the associated securing and creation of jobs, where Hamburg and
Schleswig-Holstein will expand their role as a leading centre of innovation.
1Figures refer to power consumption in the region Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein
2Coalition agreement of the German Federal Government
The Aims
NEW 4.0 aims to propel the energy transition of the
north to completion and, in particular, to spur on the
development of potential solutions for the energy transition. That means full integration of renewable energies into an innovative, sustainable energy system.
A core task in this endeavour is to create a lexible and
smart network of generators and consumers, involving
all components connected to the power grid. Novel concepts for system control and integration must be found
to put the smart link between generation, distribution, storage and consumption into practice. Key aims
are to lexibilize power consumption to entirely new
dimensions and, unlike the existing approach, to adapt
consumption to a luctuating generation. Furthermore,
NEW 4.0 will address issues of future market design, the
relationship between market partners and the need for
regulatory adaptations, and will thereby lay essential
foundations for the success of the energy transition as
the share of renewable energy feed-in rises. The aim is
therefore to develop an integrative system control that
encompasses the following tasks:
improving the utilisation and relief in the transmission grid, to avoid congestions,
and feed-in management (such as shutting down wind farms in response to grid
overload),
retroitting and optimising grids to increase their capacity,
increasing the »local energy utilisation share«, i.e. consumption of local renewable energies in the region, by suitable eiciency and lexibility concepts,
innovative, grid-friendly system management of renewable generators, thereby
reducing harmful CO2 emissions by signiicant reduction of fossil energy generation, and
creating market-based and regulatory incentives to adapt consumption to the
expected generation and market integration of storage systems.
NEW 4.0, as a showcase for Germany and Europe, will illustrate how a sustainable energy supply is possible and how the energy transition presents a unique
opportunity to achieve it.
The Innovation Alliance
Around 50 partners from all sectors and along the entire value
chain of the energy sector have joined forces to make Germany’s project of the century »energy transition« happen
now in the North. Members include grid operators TenneT,
HanseWerk, Stromnetz Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein
Netz, energy suppliers such as Hamburg Energie and Vattenfall, several public utilities such as Stadtwerke Norderstedt,
Glückstadt and Flensburg, and technological companies such
as Siemens and HanseWerk Natur. Partners involved on the
generation side include manufacturers of wind turbines as
well as operators and operator associations such as ARGE
Netz. Project partners on the consumption side are service
providers and producers, energy-intensive industrial operations such as Aurubis, Arcelor Mittal and Trimet in Hamburg
and the ChemCoast Park in Brunsbüttel, as well as the Hamburg port and airport. The involvement of wind turbine manufacturers such as Nordex and companies from the IT sector
such as cbb software GmbH and many other partners – midsized enterprises, political and administrative bodies and
even private households – creates the special width, heterogeneity and plurality of the Alliance. This combination gives
the Alliance its holistic competence for inding solutions. The
project furthermore has strong scientiic partners such as the
Fraunhofer ISIT (Institute for SiliconTechnology) Itzehoe, CC4E
of the HAW Hamburg, the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), the University of Hamburg, the Helmut-Schmidt
University, the universities of applied sciences FH Lübeck,
FH Kiel and FH Flensburg, and the Hamburg Institute of International Economics.
The Innovation Alliance
The Funding Programme
In the funding programme »Showcase Smart Energy – Digital Agenda for the Energy
Transition« of the BMWi, model regions shall develop and widely demonstrate solutions
for a climate-friendly, eicient and safe energy generation with a large share of renewable energies. Two showcases are planned for the funding programme, of which at least
one will focus on wind energy and at least one will focus on photovoltaics.
The model regions will demonstrate how smart grids based on, temporarily, up to 100
percent renewable energies and exploiting all options of generation and load management can guarantee system reliability and contribute towards security of supply. They
will also demonstrate how the grid and market could interact in the smart energy system.
The essential target criteria are system stability, security of supply, afordability, signiicant contribution towards meeting climate protection targets, and public acceptance.
Funding body
Federal Ministry for Economic Afairs and
Energy (BMWi)
Funding programme
»Showcase Smart Energy – Digital Agenda for
the Energy Transition« (SINTEG)
Anticipated project start
January 2016
Project duration
4 years
Number of consortium partners
Approx. 50 partners
Investment volume
Approx. €130 million
Project Management
Prof. Dr. Werner Beba
Matthias Boxberger
Dr. Martin Grundmann
Dr. Oliver Weinmann
Michael Westhagemann
Deputy Director of CC4E,
Hamburg University of
Applied Sciences
Chairman of the Management Board, HanseWerk
AG
Managing Director, ARGE
Netz GmbH & Co. KG
Managing Director,
Vattenfall Europe
Innovation GmbH
Chairman of the Management Board, Industrieverband Hamburg
Project Steering
Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
Contact
Frank Burkert, LL.M. | Partner | Dipl.-Volkswirt | Dipl.-Kaufmann | Master of IP Law and Management |
EMEIA Leader | Global R&D and Innovation Services, EMEIA Tax Center
Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
Rothenbaumchaussee 78, 20148 Hamburg, Germany
Oice: + 49 40 36132 21155 | Mobile: + 49 160 939 21155 | [email protected]
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Assistant: Nicole Bonni | Phone: + 49 40 36132 21037 | [email protected]
Publisher: Project Management NEW 4.0 in cooperation with Ernst & Young
GmbH
Editors: Jenny Capel, Prof. Dr. Werner Beba
Design: Pia Schröer
© CC4E of the HAW Hamburg, May 2015
www.new4-0.de
Photo credits:
- HanseWerk AG: p. 3 left, p. 4 left & middle, p. 10
- Ernst & Young: p. 3 right, p. 5, p. 7
- Hamburg Marketing:
p. 1 photo: www.mediaserver.hamburg.de / Christian Spahrbier,
p. 2 photo: www.mediaserver.hamburg.de / imagefoto.de,
p. 4 right photo: www.mediaserver.hamburg.de / Andreas Vallbracht
- Fotolia: p. 3 middle