Germany Real Laboratories Tender

The eighth real laboratory of the energy transition opens in Darmstadt. Under the title DELTA - Darmstadt Energy Laboratory for Technologies in Use twelve partners from industry and research including municipal companies and innovative startups have come together to demonstrate how the energy transition can be implemented in an urban environment . In several sub-projects a typical residential area an industrial site as well as urban supply facilities and public transport depots are linked by lines and storage facilities for electricity gas heat and hydrogen. The energy flows are optimized using digital methods.Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier If we want to achieve our climate targets we must also keep an eye on the heating sector and promote a climate-neutral heating supply. The Federal Ministry of Economics is therefore supporting the DELTA innovation project in Darmstadt with 40.1 million euros in order to test solutions for the energy transition in the heating sector in an urban environment. In the urban environment diverse producers and consumers from industry living and mobility are spatially close together and the energy flows can be networked well. The DELTA real-life laboratory will show in a very practical way how CO2 emissions can be effectively reduced in this way. The results will be transferable to many cities. The real laboratories of the energy transition are a new initiative in the 7th energy research program of the BMWi . They are used to test the interaction of several energy technologies in the energy system on an industrial scale. In this way individual research results are brought together and put into practice. The achieved savings in climate-damaging CO2 emissions are proven by accompanying research. More than 110 million euros will be invested in the DELTA real-world laboratory in 5 years.