Showcasing Smart Energy Systems from Northeastern .

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What does a successful energy transition look like?

The WindNODE project “Energy and Art” brought 50 different visions of the energy transition to life.

Find out more in the section “New Perspectives on Energy” or at www.energie-und-kunst.de/en 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS WINDNODE REPORT 2018 5

Table of Contents The Four Focus Areas ...... 32 The Subprojects ...... 36 – 149 WindNODE Report 2018 ICT Networking Platform ...... 36

Flexible Generation and Regional Power Plants ...... 46

Efficient Operating Concepts for Power Grids...... 56

Connected End Customer ...... 70 Editorial ...... 06

Market Design and Regulation ...... 84

What Drives Us ...... 08 New Flexibility Options: Sector Coupling ...... 90

Industrial Load Shifting Potential...... 106 Lab Notes ...... 10 – 13

Neighbourhood Concepts and Smart City ...... 122

The Model Region ...... 14 – 29 Participation and Dissemination ...... 132

Facts and Figures ...... 14

Berlin ...... 18 The Visitor Sites ...... 150

Brandenburg ...... 20

Special Feature: New Perspectives on Energy ...... 152 – 161 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ...... 22

Energy Meets Art ...... 153 Saxony ...... 24

Energy and Art – Visions of a Successful Energy Transition ...... 156 Saxony-Anhalt ...... 26

e-storys – Electricity, Energy & Literature...... 158 ...... 28

Solar Punk Festival 2018...... 160

The Partners ...... 30

List of Abbreviations ...... 162

Glossary ...... 163

Photo Credits ...... 163

WindNODE is a pluralistic project – not only at the administrative level, but especially with regard to those participating and our target audience. We care about people, independent of gender. Publishing Information ...... 164 Therefore, to the best of our ability, we have used gender-neutral language. 6 EDITORIAL WINDNODE REPORT 2018 7

On the Way to Editorial The German energy transition has so far been an electricity transition – and with great success. Well over one third of German electricity comes from renewables. In the WindNODE region, this figure is as high as 56 per cent. The energy transition was met with less success in other sectors, such as mobility and heat. We will

miss the national CO2 reduction target for 2020 by a significant margin.

With these mixed results, we are now entering the “second phase of the ener- gy transition”. We are faced with important questions: how can we safely and efficiently integrate even larger quantities of volatile energy from wind and sun into the electrical energy system? Will we succeed in the decarbonisation of our energy system via sector coupling, in other words through more intensive electri- fication of fossil-dominated sectors such as mobility and heat? And what role will digitalisation play in all this (whatever that may be in the specific cases)?

WindNODE has assumed the task of developing model solutions for this “second % phase of the energy transition”. Since 2017, over 70 partners in all eastern German states, including Berlin, have been working together in a value creation network that takes into account technical, economic, regulatory and societal aspects of the intelligent energy system. At the halfway point of our showcase project, we in- vite you to discover in this report who we are and what we do. We present to you 100 the WindNODE region and our network of visitor sites, guide you through our 50 Renewables subprojects and explain how we intend to use WindNODE to get people interested in and enthusiastic about the energy transition.

Success is made possible by the work of many. Above all, we extend our gratitude “With WindNODE, we have created the to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs