Aquaculture Glückstadt
sustainable production of fish and other aquatic organisms using renewable energy or industrial waste hea.
Energieküste
The Energieküste proves that our future is renewable. For decades, renewable energies have been used to create added value. Here innovations of the renewable energy sector become established on the market – from the very first wind turbines to the use of hydrogen on an industrial scale. We utilise our decades of experience, combine skill sets and set an example for how the energy transition will work.
The administrative districts of North Frisia, Dithmarschen, Steinburg and Pinneberg are incubators for innovation in the field of renewable energies. The Energieküste network is a place where partners can combine their expertise and connect with other stakeholders from around the region. The surplus green energy produced on the Energieküste is the basis for building new value chains in a broad range of fields – from sustainable mobility and big data, to Power-to-X and energy-intensive industries.
The conditions in the region are perfect. The west coast of Schleswig-Holstein is a hotspot for the renewable energy sector – be it production, processing, distribution or storage. The location of the Energieküste between central and northern Europe and its transport links to the metropolis of Hamburg, home to Germany’s largest seaport and an international airport, are also key strengths.
Chosen projects at the Energieküste
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Generation
Hydrogen
Storage
Mobility
Sector coupling
Heat
Facts and figures
- 16,315 gigawatt hours of electricity are produced from renewable energy sources on the west coast – this equates to roughly three-quarters of the green electricity generated in Schleswig-Holstein, and almost a tenth of the green electricity generated in Germany.
- 2,500 installed wind turbines (440 offshore) generating 6,263 MW of power *
- Economic output of EUR 23.5 billion – predominately from the energy and chemical industries and the maritime sector **
- At 2,000 ha, ChemCoast Park Brunsbüttel is the largest industrial estate in Schleswig-Holstein
- 200 ha of industrial and commercial spaces available immediately ***
- Rapid EV charging points at a maximum of 40 kilometres apart along the A23 / B5 between Hamburg and Denmar
* Statistikamt Nord, annual values for 2018
** National accounts for states: gross domestic product/gross value added, 2017
*** GEMO Westküste, as of December 2019
Fraunhofer ISIT
one of Europe’s most state-of-the-art research institutes for microelectronics and microsystems technology.
Hydrogen production
electrolysis plant in Südermarsch operated by KMW Wind to Gas Energy.
LNG terminal
the “German LNG Terminal GmbH” joint venture intends to build and operate an LNG import and distribution terminal at a site in Brunsbüttel.
Windtestfeld-Nord
a test field that facilitates and promotes the testing and certification of new wind energy technologies.
Aquaculture Friedrichskoog
sustainable production of fish and other aquatic organisms using renewable energy or industrial waste heat.
Aquaculture Büsum
sustainable production of fish and other aquatic organisms using renewable energy or industrial waste heat.
Aquaculture Hemmingstedt
sustainable production of fish and other aquatic organisms using renewable energy or industrial waste heat.
West Coast University of Applied Sciences and the Institute for the Transformation of the Energy System
established research centre for the technologies of the energy transition.
QUARREE100
KEROSyN100
a Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy-funded project by Raffinerie Heide GmbH. It aims at manufacturing the first synthetic kerosene based on carbon-free methanol.
Aquaculture Friedrichstadt
sustainable production of fish and other aquatic organisms using renewable energy or industrial waste heat.
Regenerative energy production and processing
sector coupling, hydrogen, mobility and local heat solutions developed by GP Joule in North Frisia.
Carbon-free data centre
green data centre with waste heat processing operated by Windcloud 4.0
Aquaculture Brunsbüttel
sustainable production of fish and other aquatic organisms using renewable energy or industrial waste heat.
Lithium-ion battery cell development and production
Custom Cells is a world-leading provider in the field of battery cell development.
Pinneberg district EV fleet
the district of Pinneberg is the first municipal government to have converted its entire fleet to electric vehicles. This was made possible by a complete digital conversion of the fleet use.
WESTKÜSTE100
a project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy as part of the Living Labs for the Energy Transition programme. Wind energy is used to create green hydrogen through electrolysis at the Refinery Heide. This is then used either directly in the refinery or for testing a cavern storage facility, a new hydrogen pipeline or increased blending in the natural gas network. The company is also testing whether the oxygen generated during electrolysis can be used in a cement plant and combined with the CO2 to produce synthetic hydrocarbon.
Pilot project "eFarm"
GP Joule's "eFarm" pilot project is the largest green hydrogen mobility project in Germany to date and shows how wind and sun can be used to produce tankable hydrogen and heat. The GP Joule company is building a hydrogen infrastructure from production to processing and use for mobility. The waste heat generated during electrolysis is also used regionally to heat buildings.
Test field for high altitude wind turbine
Germany's first flight wind turbine was erected as part of the BMWI-funded "SkyPower100" project. SkySails Power GmbH, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, EWE Offshore Service & Solutions GmbH and Leibniz Universität Hannover are jointly gathering valuable insights into environmental influences, safety aspects and approval requirements for the development and scaling of future airborne wind turbines at the Klixbüll site.
E-Aviation - AirConnect-NF innovation project
The BMVI-funded project AirConnect-NF serves as a support and project milestone for the reopening of the decommissioned military airport Leck. At the center of the innovative aviation concept for sustainable, ecological e-mobility are unmanned, partly autonomously operating aircraft and electric aviation for passenger transport. Among other things, the feasibility study had the goal of determining the legal framework for UAV aviation, determining possible areas of application and users, and generating a possible international cooperation with Denmark.
Demand-driven night identification: Passiv-Radar-System (PARASOL)
Parasol - The passive radar system for controlling the demand-driven night-time identification has been developed by Dirkshof in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute and is fully recognized, also according to the new AVV. The system works in real time by using complex mathematical logarithms via specially installed antennas to determine the exact position of the reflection of existing television and radio signals on the flying object. As soon as the flying object enters the effective area of the altitude-marked wind turbines, they flash red and switch off as soon as the flying object leaves the area. There are no additional emissions and it is transponder independent.
Sustainable aquaculture of Fischaufzucht Drellborg GmbH
Higher profitability, sustainability and competitiveness - a sustainable aquaculture in North Friesland will combine fish farming with mussel and seaweed production under sea-like conditions. At the site of Fischaufzucht Drellborg GmbH, the existing fish aquaculture will be further developed in addition to the production of high-quality mussels and seaweed. Within the processes, material and energy cycles will be linked and the energy and heat requirements will be covered by regenerative energies.
Test centre for maritime technology
Research and testing of maritime robotics under real conditions.
AquaVentus
The green energy revolution
The AquaVentus initiative wants to set signals worldwide with climate-friendly hydrogen technology. A visionary project: 10 gigawatts of generating capacity for green hydrogen from offshore wind energy by the year 2035 and its transport by pipeline to land. A million tons of green hydrogen per year could be obtained from Helgoland to Doggerbank in this way. The AquaVentus project family includes numerous sub-projects along the value chain from the production of hydrogen in the North Sea to transport to customers on the mainland. All information about the AquaVentus initiative
ARGENetz
Intelligently networked energy
ARGE Netz`s renewable power plant is the heart of the company. On this digital operating platform, over 3,300 megawatts of wind, sun and biomass are currently being offered to the market in a high-performance network. The platform creates access to the energy markets for generation plants, storage facilities and consumers of any size. Intelligent and safe technology connects them to a large ”pool“. This enables the system operators to participate in other market in addition to the spot market. Portfolio effects minimize the risks and optimize the market result. ARGE Netz combines the fluctuating wind and solar energy with flexible systems and thereby stabilizes the energy supply. Cooperation with network operators opens up control and system service markets. Realtime data is exchanged with them, thus ensuring better utilization of the network and greater system stability.
Energieversorgung Sylt
The combined heat and power plant of Energieversorgung Sylt operates according to the principle of cogeneration with a particularly high overall efficiency and generates about 17 million kilowatt hours of heat and about 13 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year. This corresponds to an annual heat consumption of about 1,200 households and an annual electricity consumption of about 2,800 households. With the connection to district heating, the requirements according to the new Renewable Energy Heating Act are also fulfilled.
Inselwerke Föhr-Amrum GmbH
The Inselwerke Föhr-Amrum GmbH is a cooperation of the island communities and the Föhr-Amrum office. The company's fields of activity will primarily be the operation of electricity and gas grids as well as the generation and distribution of electricity and heat. The goals of the energy company are the establishment of a climate-friendly (CO2-neutral) insular energy supply, the strengthening of the local economy through the decentralisation of the energy industry, the establishment of innovative and sustainable technologies on the islands, and citizen participation in the energy transition. Subsidiaries of the GmbH will be the yet to be founded Inselnetz Föhr-Amrum GmbH and Inselenergie Föhr-Amrum GmbH.
SunOyster
The SunOyster is a concentrating solar technology that tracks the sun all day long, generating solar heat and electricity. By means of a thermal chiller, the heat can also be converted into cold. The utilisation of space is much higher than with conventional PV. In strong winds and at night, the SunOyster automatically secures itself in a protective position - just like an oyster. Therefore, it can also be installed on the best place for solar energy, the roof.
OffTEC
OffTEC Base GmbH & Co.KG's training centre, which is unique in Europe, conducts safety training, first aid and technology courses for the wind energy sector and the maritime industry. Here in Enge-Sande, the Maritime Training Centre uses sophisticated technology to create real sea scenarios with metre-high waves, fog and storms. This is also where the special forces of e.g. the police and the German Armed Forces train in survival and rescue. On the 137-hectare OffTEC training grounds, you can find yourself flooded, extinguish fires or rescue yourself and colleagues from narrow spaces at great heights - and then work safely and routinely on and offshore with a certificate.
H2 Core Systems
H2 Core Systems designs, constructs, and maintains modular configurable electrolysis systems the ideal hydrogen source. The focus is on a green and sustainable future with an efficient, cost-effective, and modular scalable hydrogen system. Combination options such as the integration of fuel cells, as well as compressor and storage units can be realised.The diversity allows to configure an individual energy source.
BREEZER AIRCRAFT
Alternative propulsion systems for Breezer Aircraft aircraft
Making air traffic more climate-friendly is the ambitious goal of Breezer Aircraft. In two project phases, a Breezer will initially fly battery-electric and later draw its energy from hydrogen with the help of a fuel cell. In order to bundle existing synergies and accelerate the process, Breezer Aircraft and Dirkshof have entered into a cooperation with Apus Engineering in Strausberg near Berlin under the management of Dirk Ketelsen.
Elogen
Elogen develops state-of-the-art PEM electrolysers for the mobility, heavy industry and energy storage sectors and is involved as a partner in the QUARREE100 research project. The aim of the project is to develop an energy system that enables the supply of a city district with 100% renewable energies. In the project, green hydrogen serves as a central storage and flexible form of energy. Within the project, Elogen analyses the potential of PEM electrolysis to generate flexibility options in the neighbourhood. In addition, innovative technical concepts for PEM electrolysers, which are specially adapted to the needs of the city district, are being developed, thus creating the basis for implementation.
Westhof Bio
One of the largest contiguous organic vegetable growing areas in Europe developed around the Westhof Bio Group. Thanks to their philosophy, they aim to implement all organic farming activities in harmony with nature and the natural symbiotic energy and nutrient cycles. Your two organic glasshouses are among the largest in Germany. Energy-saving and translucent building materials ensure an optimal energy balance. At the same time, grown tomatoes and peppers are not nourished on a synthetic substrate but on real "Dithmarsch soil" with local rainwater. The vegetables that are sorted out are fed into the farm's own biogas plants to enable energy to be generated using wind, sun, and biomass. The production and consumption of electricity and heat are optimally adapted to the requirements. The only pure organic freezing plant in Germany is also operated by the Westhofers, whose waste heat is also recycled and used to heat the glasshouses.
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Energy generation
The west coast is one of the windiest areas in Germany. “Growian”, the first MW-class wind turbine in Germany, was installed here in 1983. Over 2,000 turbines have been installed here since. It thus comes as no surprise that the region is now one of the market leaders in the generetion of renewable electricity. Alongside wind, photovoltaic and biomass energies also constitute large parts of the energy mix.
©GP JOULE
Hydrogen
The national hydrogen strategy aims at building a hydrogen economy using renewable energy sources. Wind energy – including the offshore wind farms along the Energieküste in the North Sea – makes it possible. Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the Westküste 100 project aims to gradually establish a regional hydrogen economy on an industrial scale. Companies such as KMW Wind to Gas Energy and GP JOULE already produce green hydrogen, which is used in the mobility sector, among other areas.
Storage
Numerous companies, start-ups and research institutes in the region are developing innovative storage solutions so that renewable energies can be used 100 percent. Here on the Energieküste, we work together with institutions such as the Fraunhofer Institute and the company CUSTOMCELLS in Itzehoe, the West Coast University of Applied Sciences and the QUARREE100 living lab project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
©GP JOULE
Mobility
The energy transition will only succeed if the mobility and transport sector transforms as well. On the Energieküste, we are working on this transformation in collaboration with local districts, public transport authorities and private companies. Electric vehicles and fuel cell technology play an important role in developing the traffic and transport systems of the future. The Energieküste is Germany’s leading region in the realization of hydrogen filling stations.
©GP JOULE
Sector coupling
On the Energieküste, we are creating a regional, cross-sectoral and climate-friendly value chain. Innovative Power-to-X projects such as the QUARREE100 living lab are successfully being developed. Alongside heat and synthetic fuels, green hydrogen, generated using wind and solar power, is one important integrative component for successful sector coupling.
© Entwicklungsagentur Region Heide / Marcus Barthel
Heat
A comprehensive, renewable energy supply system must also include an integrated and sustainable heat sector. The West Coast University of Applied Sciences is working intensively both on the use of heat storage potential in the region and eco-friendly building system technology. An important innovation for increasing energy efficiency is the use of waste heat. Companies such as Windcloud 4.0 and Refinery Heide already use environmentally friendly waste heat for industrial projects.