Energy News: D-A-CH

- 24.05.2022
- German / English
Lithium-ion batteries have become an indispensable part of our everyday lives. Conventional solvent-based electrode production delivers very good results, but is characterized by high resource and energy consumption. Scientists at Fraunhofer ISIT are working on how production can be carried out more cost-effectively and in a more environmentally friendly manner, focusing …

- 23.05.2022
- English
- The average refrigerator in the U.S. uses more electricity in a year than the average person in dozens of countries. These massive energy inequalities, as well as the human suffering that results from energy shortages, must be considered before high-income countries make large-scale policy decisions for the rest of the world.

- 16.05.2022
- German
- In a scenario calculation, the institute assumes that Germany will need around 100 gigawatt hours of electrical storage capacity by 2030. When building the battery storage facilities at former power plant sites, the connected load already available there could be used.

- 16.05.2022
- German / English
- The main objective of the DigIPlat research project is to identify measures for the implementation, adaptation and knowledge transfer of standardized digital solutions for the interaction of transnational flexibility markets. Building on this, an international platform is to be developed on which the transnational flexibility markets can cooperate.
For more security of supply in the international energy market, the research project “Digital Solutions for the Interoperability of Flexibility Platforms (DigIPlat)” by the Ulm University of Applied Sciences (THU) together with partner institutions from the DACH region is developing basic principles for the interaction of transnational energy platforms. The energy …

- 10.05.2022
- German / English
Storing energy over the long term is probably the biggest unsolved problem of the energy transition so far. A new type of chemical heat storage system has now been invented at the Vienna University of Technology that can be used to store large amounts of energy in an environmentally friendly way …

- 10.05.2022
- German
- If technical equipment or processes generate unused energy such as waste heat or vibration, this can be converted into electricity by so-called energy harvesting systems. However, the technology for this is currently expensive and unreliable. The international FAST-SMART project is therefore developing low-cost and sustainable materials and systems for energy harvesting.

- 10.05.2022
- German
- Algorithm for stable grids: When more and more renewable energies flood into power grids, they become unstable. Blackouts loom. Siemens inventors have solved the problem - and so has a village in the Allgäu region.

- 25.04.2022
- German / English
A neighborhood-optimized approach to energy supply for neighborhoods offers many advantages over decentrally optimized supply structures at the building level. This is the result of the study “Modeling of sector-integrated energy supply in the neighborhood”. The study was prepared by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE on behalf of …

- 25.04.2022
- German
- In Europe, the number of start-ups is on the rise. But in many cases, the mentality in this country prevents startups from realizing their full potential. Therefore, "transformation-oriented startups" are valuable. This refers to start-ups that want to help make society and the economy more sustainable. And at the same time are successful on the mass market. How the solar startup Enpal

- 22.04.2022
- German / English
The Mobility2Grid research campus is entering its second funding phase. In the period between 2022 and 2027, the network of a total of ten scientific and business partners will receive funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) totaling 10 million euros. The chairman of the research campus …

- 21.04.2022
- German
- Next Kraftwerke was launched in 2009 with the idea of bundling emergency power generators and biogas plants in order to clear the MW hurdle for access to the balancing energy market. The company gradually developed into one of the largest virtual power plants in Europe and is now present in eight European countries.
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