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DLR untersucht Potential für Solarenergie in Qatar

Das Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) wird im Auftrag des Qatar National Food Security Program (QNSFP) die Potentiale der Sonne zur nachhaltigen Erzeugung von Energie in dem arabischen Emirat zu untersuchen. Das DLR wird bei der Suche nach geeigneten Standorten für Solarkraftwerke unterstützen und lokale Fachkräfte beim Aufbau und Betrieb der Anlagen beraten. Die Zusammenarbeit wurde am 8. Dezember 2011 in Qatar vereinbart. Forscher vom DLR-Institut für Technische Thermodynamik werden in den kommenden Monaten die Sonneneinstrahlung mit Hilfe von Satellitendaten untersuchen. Die Ergebnisse werden mit Bodenmessungen abgeglichen. So können die Wissenschaftler die besten Standorte und auch Ausschlusskriterien für den Bau von Kraftwerken bestimmen.

New doctoral scholarship at DLR-STB in the frame of the Helmholtz International Research School “Energy Scenarios – Construction, Assessment, Impact”.

In the framework of the International Research School in Energy Scenarios a successful candidate is expected to work at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Stuttgart in the research project “Perspectives of electricity storages with respect to the integration of high shares of renewable energies into the German supply system”. In order to economically integrate the increasing power generation from fluctuating renewable sources into the energy supply system, the economic and technical implications of different load balancing options have to be examined. In addition to demand side and generation management and potentials of the European power transmission system, electric power storage technologies are promising options as well. Main task of the proposed work will be to demonstrate the economic perspectives of these technologies in the German energy supply system of the future. The optimisation model REMix of DLR-STB will be the main instrument used for this work. It has to be further developed for a better representation of power storage options and their operation and will then be applied for dynamic simulations of the power supply system. The quantification and analysis of economic impacts of an expansion of storage options has to be done by performing simulations under varying assumptions regarding: expansion of transfer capacities and long-range transport of electricity in the European grid, mix of electricity generation and generating capacities, electricity demand, spatial distribution of generation facilities and various load balancing options within Germany. Based on the simulation results, the prospects of storage expansion should be explored also from a business point of view. Deadline for application: December 16, 2011. Start of scholarship: April, 2012. For more information please contact the supervisors: Thomas.Pregger@dlr.de or Yvonne.Scholz@dlr.de

DLR untersucht Potential für Solarenergie in Qatar

New doctoral scholarship at DLR-STB in the frame of the Helmholtz International Research School “Energy Scenarios – Construction, Assessment, Impact”.

Energie Speicher Symposium 2012 - Programm