Norddeutsches Reallabor (NRL) - Northern German Living Lab

The Northern German Living Lab (NRL) is an innovative joint project that aims to test new ways of achieving climate neutrality. To this end, production and living areas with particularly high energy consumption are being gradually decarbonized – especially in industry, but also in heat supply and the mobility sector. Behind the NRL stand 50 partners from business, science and politics. The large-scale approach allows the NRL to serve as a supra-regional model for hydrogen-based sector coupling.
LEAD DEVELOPER

CC4E/HAW Hamburg

PROJECT PARTNERS

Aurubis AG, HanseWerk AG, Stadtreinigung Hamburg AöR, Fraunhofer IWES, KMW Wind to Gas Energy GmbH & Co. KG, Energie des Nordens GmbH,
HanseWerk AG, WEMAG AG, Gasnetz Hamburg
Aurubis AG, Flughafen Hamburg GmbH, Hamburger Hochbahn, Holborn, Nahverkehr Schwerin GmbH, Stadtreinigung Hamburg AöR, Volker Rumstich Transport GmbH, WEMAG AG

MAIN POLITICAL SPONSORS

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) ("Living Labs of the Energy Transition" funding initiative); Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV)

MAIN LOCATION

Germany

OTHER LOCATIONS

Yes

Project details

H2 PRODUCTION VOLUME

[T/year]:

4,300

INVESTMENT VOLUME

[M€]:

398.00
FUNDING
VALUE CHAIN COVERAGE

PRIMARY ENERGY SOURCING

H2 PRODUCTION

    H2 STORAGE

    H2 TRANSPORT

    • Pipeline
    • Trucking

    H2 DISTRIBUTION FOR MOBILITY

    • HRS 700 bar
    • HRS 350 bar
    END USES

    MOBILITY

    • Cars
    • Buses
    • Trucks
    • Other

    ENERGY

    INDUSTRIAL FEEDSTOCK

    • Supply to chemical industry (e.g. fertilizer production)
    • Supply to refineries
    • Supply to other industries

    Project timeline

    CURRENT STATUS:

    Under construction

    2014

    Start of project development

    Project finalization

    2035


    KEY SUCCESS FACTORS

    PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PHASE

    • Political backing and buy-in

    • Funding

    • Experienced staff

    • Stakeholder cooperation

    • Project's governance model

    COMMERCIAL AND FINANCING PHASE

    • Applying for public subsidy/grant schemes

    • Securing public financial support (subsidy/grant)

    • Building a financial model

    N.A.: Not available. This is possible due to two reasons: a) the Hydrogen Valley chose to not publicly display the data or b) the Hydrogen Valley did not answer the specific question in the associated survey.
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