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Projects of the department Energy Systems Analysis

Following overview shows selected ongoing and completed projects. The links provide you a short description of each project. Some of them are in German only.

Selection of ongoing projects:

ZERO BRINE - Re-designing the Value and Supply Chain of Water and Minerals: A circular Economy Approach for the Recovery of Resources from Brine generated by Process Industries

REfuels-Brazil: Innovative Alternative Fuels for Aviation in Brazil

Effects of the measures taken by the Federal Government within the target architecture for the energy transition

Kopernikus-Projekt „Systemintegration“: Energiewende-Navigationssystem (ENavi)

ANSWER-Kommunal: Development of a standardized analysis and results grid for heat plans for the implementation of the energy transition in the municipal sector

InNOSys – Integrated sustainability assessment and optimization of energy systems

ArcMod – Increasing Flexibility of AMIRIS

BEAM-ME - Developing speed-up methods from Applied Mathematics and Computer Science for the optimization of energy systems models

C/sells - Techno-economic evaluation of utility business models in cellular structures

CSP-Finance Financing Concentrating Solar Power in the Middle East and North Africa

ELCALC - Tabellenkalkulation für nachhaltige Stromversorgung

ERA-FLEX: Effective framework conditions for cost optimal expansion of renewables with complementary decentralized flexibility options in the electricity sector

Helmholtz Joint Initiative „Energy System 2050“ - Research Topic 4: Life-Cycle-Oriented Sustainability Analysis at System Level (ES2050 –FT4)

Helmholtz Research School on Energy Scenarios

INTEEVER - Analysis of infrastructural options to integrate renewable energies in Germany and Europe considering security of supply

Macroeconomic effects and distribution issues of the German energy transition (“Energiewende”)

Model based analysis of the integration of intermittent renewable electricity generation by enhanced coupling of power, heat, gas and transport sector (multi sector coupling, MuSeKo)

Multi-criteria analysis for building and assessing sustainable scenario pathways

Network analysis and simulation of innovation dynamics of new key technologies for the energy transition

SolarMedAtlas - Solar Atlas for the Mediterranean

Strategic Scenario Analysis (START) – A first German-Australian focus project

System Comparison of storable renewable energy sources (SYSEET)

Selection of completed projects