How can the increasing demand for electricity due to the energy transition be met?
The simultaneous energy, heat and transport transition is causing electricity demand in cities to rise sharply. Stadtwerke Jena Netze currently expects heat pumps, e-mobility & Co to triple the existing power demand in its electricity grid in Jena. The municipal utilities are investigating how this „hunger for electricity“ can be satisfied without massive grid expansion in the JenErgieReal energy transition real laboratory. The core is the construction of a virtual power plant that links producers, consumers and storage facilities for electricity and heat and makes them controllable in real time. The aim is to use digitalization to make the energy transition in cities needs-based and affordable.
JenErgieReal - How can the increasing demand for electricity be met?
Interview with our expert Benny Gottschalk
Jena's steps towards the virtual power plant
Our real-world laboratory for the energy transition JenErgieReal has reached its first milestone. Here we provide an overview of the interim results.
A virtual power plant: That's what JenErgieReal is all about
You can read more about the project content of our real-world laboratory for the energy transition and how the network partners envision the virtual power plant - the heart of JenErgieReal - in our blog post.
Energy turnaround series in the OTZ
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100% electricity for all customers: Already since 2013
Stadtwerke Energie Jena-Pößneck supplies its household and commercial customers exclusively with TÜV-certified green electricity. This comes 100% from European hydropower, some of it even from local plants along the Saale river. A fixed amount flows into the expansion of renewable energies every year.
