Decarbonizing the energy system is crucial to achieving climate goals. All sectors are interconnected and interdependent: Hydrogen plays a key role as a new energy carrier in industry, but it also presents new challenges for transportation and manufacturing. In the transportation and heating sectors, the focus is onelectrification. Grid expansion must keep pace with renewable energy generation and simultaneously requires digitalization for flexible planning and control.
The goal is to develop cost-effective, rapidly implementable solutions for modernizing energy grids that reduce operating and investment costs in the long term.
Together with our shareholders, the business community, and Hamburg’s authorities, we are planning sector coupling and the digitalization of smart grids. We get projects “off the ground” and ensure their successful implementation. To this end, as drivers of innovation, we connect all relevant stakeholders.
Hamburg is a pioneer in the energy transition
By repurchasing the energy grids and merging them into the Hamburg Energy Networks, the city can steer the development process itself and leverage synergies. Initial integrated plans are already in place, and Hamburg is also driving innovation in areas such as charging infrastructure. The energy transition is being further advanced by the decommissioning of the coal-fired power plant in Moorburg: With the Hamburg Green Hydrogen Hub, green hydrogen—and thus energy for mobility, heating, process gas, or as a substitute for natural gas—is to be produced from renewable energy sources in the near future.