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Digitalization
InDEED - Design, implementation and evaluation of an energy industry data platform based on block chain for the use cases "labeling" and "asset logging"
InDEED - Design, implementation and evaluation of an energy industry data platform based...
The InDEED research project aims to implement the concept of a distributed data platform on a block chain basis for applications in the energy industry both in practice and in theoretical scientific evaluation. The focus is on analyses of...
Storage and Grids
GridSim – Power Grid and Energy System Model for Distribution Networks
GridSim – Power Grid and Energy System Model for Distribution Networks
"GridSim" is a simulation model for the detailed analysis of distribution grids based on load flow calculations, conceived by the FfE. The impact of various decentral generation and consumption systems on the distribution grid can be determined...
Production and Market
eXtremOS - Country profiles of 17 European countries were developed
eXtremOS - Country profiles of 17 European countries were developed
Our country profiles offer a compact and holistic overview on the most relevant figures characterizing 16 European countries. Final energy consumption and emissions split into sectors and applications, potentials of wind and solar as well as...
Mobility
Bidirectional Charging Management (BCM) – intelligent interaction of electric vehicles, charging infrastructure and energy system
Bidirectional Charging Management (BCM) – intelligent interaction of electric vehicles,...
The research project "Bidirectional Charging Management" aims to develop and test a holistic, user-oriented offer for the integration of bidirectional electric vehicles into the energy system. The intelligent interaction between electric...
Digitalization
C/sells - The energy system of the future in the "solar arch" in southern Germany
C/sells - The energy system of the future in the "solar arch" in southern Germany
The digitalization and increasingly interconnected infrastructure of the energy system has become one of the major drivers, alongside the continuing expansion of renewable energy generation, of the changes currently affecting all aspects of the...
Resources and Climate Protection
Dynamis – Dynamic and Intersectoral Evaluation of Measures for a Cost-Efficient Decarbonisation of the Energy System
Dynamis – Dynamic and Intersectoral Evaluation of Measures for a Cost-Efficient...
Motivation"Dynamis – ability to induce change"
In the course of the German energy transition, the energy supply is being redesigned pursuing the goal of phasing out nuclear energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Passing the Paris Climate...
Heat supply
Fourth generation district heating – Feasibility study for a district heating network 4.0 in Rosenheim, Germany
Fourth generation district heating – Feasibility study for a district heating network...
Feasibility studies for the implementation of innovative heating network systems are funded within the framework of the funding call "Fourth generation district heating" of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Export Control (BAFA). After the...
Production and Market
Value of flexibility in the context of European electricity market coupling with extreme technological, regulatory and social developments
Value of flexibility in the context of European electricity market coupling with extreme...
The project eXtremOS started on the 1st of January 2018
In eXtremOS (XOS) the FfE investigates the effect of extreme technological, regulatory and social developments on the value of flexibility in the European electricity market. The FFE is...
Storage and Grids
Merit Order Grid Expansion 2030 (MONA 2030)
Merit Order Grid Expansion 2030 (MONA 2030)
Motivation and purpose
The power grid’s requirements of extensive reconstruction and expansion are technical challenges whose implementation must strike a balance between economic and socio-political conditions. In the course of the tender...