NEW 4.0: a blueprint for electrification and sector coupling

Sector coupling & electrification

When: Tuesday, 25 September 2018, 13:45 - 14:45
Where: Room: Bilbao

Session description

A unique innovation alliance of companies, scientists and politicians has emerged in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein under the title "NEW 4.0". This major cross-regional project is intended to show how the entire region, with 4.5 million inhabitants, can be supplied with 100% reliable, renewable energy by the end of 2035. "NEW" stands for the Northern German Energy Transition (German: Norddeutsche EnergieWende) and "4.0" describes the threshold of the fourth industrial revolution: the digitalisation of industry and the intelligent networking of systems as part of the energy transition. The project is planned to last four years, from 2016 to 2020. NEW 4.0 is aimed at implementing sustainable energy supply and thus strengthening the sustainability of the region. Approximately 60 partners in the region bundle all the necessary expertise and problem-solving potential to give a decisive boost to the energy transition in the north of Germany.

One of the most interesting features of NEW 4.0 is that it enables the testing of new platforms, including creating market-based and regulatory incentives for a new market design, including ones for adapting consumption to the expected generation and integrating storage units into the market.

This session will feature presentations of some of the most advanced demonstration projects under NEW 4.0. We will cover: innovative grid congestion management; electrification of heating; demand-side management; generation management; and electrification of transport.