The Hamburg Renewable Energy Cluster
Clean electricity – The North has it
In just ten years’ time, over 35% of Germany’s power production is to be from renewable sources such as wind, solar or biogas power. Experts at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety anticipate a 12 billion KWh increase in production annually. Germany has embarked on a sustainable energy policy course in which the Hamburg metropolitan region has a central role to play. North Germany is already the focal point and development centre of a clean energy industry and the aim is to ensure that it gains in international importance.
All over the metropolitan region engineers, scientists and politicians are working hard to make renewable energies a success. Hamburg is the domicile of many industrial enterprises and at the same time an important services centre. Nearly all of the major power utilities have their renewable energy facilities in the city.
The Hamburg Renewable Energy Network was founded to strengthen and promote industry cooperation. It bundles the wide-ranging competencies of companies, research facilities and regenerative energy industry institutions and promote interfaces with other industries, such as new materials.
The development of renewable energies boosts quality of life, environmental protection and economic development in the Hamburg metropolitan region. The Hamburg Renewable Energy Cluster aims to secure and promote these positive prospects in the long term, especially in export markets.
