Completed projects

ANaPlan Plus aims to identify the optimization potential in energy grids, considering new degrees of freedom from the cross-sectoral view. The core element is a methodology for integral infrastructure planning with digital support. With this, electricity and natural gas supply grids can be adapted to complex future scenarios.

The MEO project - model tests for operational energy system analysis - is one of six projects in the MODEX program. While many of the other MODEX projects deal with questions of classic energy system analysis, MEO aims to break new ground in energy system analysis. Due to the complexity and scope of the systems under investigation, simplifications must be made in the modeling, for example with regard to the temporal and spatial resolution of energy generation and consumption or the grid infrastructures. This creates a gap in traditional energy system analysis with regard to the operational effects of the simulation results on the real system. Approaches to closing this gap include, for example, models that can be used to simulate the operation of electricity grids in high temporal and spatial resolution in order to determine how certain generation structures affect the voltage levels. It is obvious that such models can only represent a smaller system scope as compensation for the higher resolution. Therefore, operational energy system analysis models focus on specific aspects of the energy system, such as the modeling of control strategies for virtual power plants or the effects of combined heat and power plants on (spatially high-resolution) heat and power grids. The MEO consortium is investigating eight scenarios in which various changes within a distribution grid are simulated. The scenarios form the basis for a comparison of eight different modeling approaches and include, for example, the expansion of solar power generation plants, the increase in e-mobility and the expansion of heat pumps.

The project "OwnPV-Outlook – PV self-consumption as an efficient, sustainable and robust element of the future energy system" aims to investigate and evaluate the integration and development of PV self-supply systems into the future energy system. The project evaluates possible and probable designs of future frameworks for PV self-supply systems, considering economical, technical, behavioural and regulatory aspects. The aim is to narrow this range by determining an energetically and economically efficient and thus sustainable integration of PV self-supply systems into the energy system, taking into account the technological innovation in diverse PV application cases.