Accompanying Research of the funding initiative "Energy transformation in transport" (“Energiewende im Verkehr”)
Duration: July 2018 until May 2022
Funded by: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Project Participants: Forschungsstelle für Energiewirtschaft, Institut für Zukunftsenergie- und Stoffstromsysteme Deutsches Biomasse Forschungszentrum Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung Institut für Verbrennungstechnik Institut für Fahrzeugkonzepte Institut für Verkehrsforschung Institut für Vernetzte Energiesysteme Institut für Flughafenwesen und Luftverkehr Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
Project Manager at the Institute of Networked Energy Systems: Carsten Hoyer-Klick
Project Description: This joint project represents the Accompanying Research of the funding initiative "Energy transformation in transport" (“Energiewende im Verkehr”). The overall objective of the project is to support the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in the field of electricity-based fuels.
The aim of the Accompanying Research is, on the one hand, networking within the funding initiative and communication with the project promoter, ministries, and experts as well as with stakeholders from industry, science, and society. For this purpose, interdisciplinary workshops and status conferences on the funding initiative will be organized. On the other hand, Accompanying Research should ensure the comparability and conformity of the research results within the funding initiative.
The Accompanying Research of the DLR sub-projects includes comprehensive work on systems analysis and technology evaluation. The project aims at the further development and integrated application of analytical tools for the evaluation of different developments in both the transport and the energy system as a whole. Detailed bottom-up modeling of infrastructural changes on the generation side and technology implementations on the vehicle use side are to be combined. Technical aspects of the use of electricity-based fuels are compiled and evaluated. In addition, all modes of transportation will be investigated - in varying degrees of detail. Here, existing highly advanced methods for modelling vehicle fleets and market evolution, traffic demands, consistent development paths of the energy system as a whole, interactions between electricity system and traffic demands, industry-specific and macroeconomic effects on the German economy, and life cycle-based ecological effects are further elaborated and used in an integrated manner for an overall evaluation of target systems and development paths.
The department of Energy Systems Analysis is leading work package 1 on energy systems analysis and is participating in work package 7 on market introduction mechanism.
DLR is also responsible for project management and coordination.