Digitizing the energy transition.

Wind and solar energy, electric mobility, heating systems with heat pumps for our homes – all of these technologies are low in emissions, but also cause large load fluctuations in the power grids, which can pose a major challenge for the energy system. On the way to climate neutrality, we therefore need decentralized energy system infrastructures that can not only be operated locally but also optimized and automated across sectors.

In the Helmholtz Association’s ESD Program, we want to make this possible by digitizing the energy transition. We use state-of-the-art digitization approaches and complex simulation models, and evaluate our solutions in practical tests. To this end, we are not only building large real labs at the Helmholtz centers, like the Energy Lab 2.0 and the Living Lab Energy Campus, but are also researching the implementation of novel, distributed digital tool environments. Thus, we are developing systemic and cross-sector solutions for the energy system of the future.

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