Topic Renewable Sources of Energy
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- Interaction between potentials, technologies, infrastructures and institutions, DLR, KIT
Renewable sources of energy will play a key role in reducing greenhouse gases and the consumption of finite sources of energy and in improving the reliability of supply. Challenging scientific problems that are being dealt with in the topic are
- determining and mapping the potentials of the different renewable sources of energy sun, wind and biomass;
- potential for development of new technologies for utilising renewables, including the assessment of the ecological and economic consequences to be expected;
- integration of renewables into the existing energy infrastructure, such as the electricity, natural-gas, and district-heating grids and into the existing fuel supply structure;
- analysis and consideration of the complex transition processes that affect the behaviour of the various players in the energy market during conversion to renewables, including associated advising of decision-makers.
These four main questions of the topic are being dealt within four subtopics:
Potential of renewable sources of energy
New technologies for utilising renewable sources of energy
Integration of renewable sources of energy into supply systems
Strategies for bringing renewables onto the market and advising decision-makers
