Energy transition specifically planned and regionally integrated with potentials concerning resources, energy and added value
Abstract
The challenge: The call to fulfil national and international climate and energy goals becomes increasingly urgent. For taking steps towards the energy transition on a regional scale, planning and management authorities in communities and regions are important players. To perform this task, they need profound energy concepts. Preparing and handling of such highly complex concepts that integrate demand and production of power, heat, and mobility is beyond the possibilities of communal and regional administration, where a number of routine tasks need to be accomplished. As a result, currently only a few flagship projects with special framework conditions (high budget, funding, active stakeholders on-site) are realized. However, widespread activity is an indispensable precondition for a sustainable energy transition. This is why efficient support of regional energy planning and implementation is urgently needed. The digitization as planned in this project is deemed an essential contribution towards this endeavour. The objective: Our goal is to develop a digital toolbox for planning the local energy transition from start to finish including all relevant dimensions: From identifying the optimal site for power generation plants and sounding out the energetic potential up to the analysis of attainable reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the maximization of added value – technologically, energetically, ecologically, climatologically, economically and organizationally (including all relevant stakeholders). We build upon our own and therefor manageable resources: We combine two already existing tools, update them by improving the inclusion of climate parameters and optimize them for integrated use: The energy transition calculator RESYS for detailed planning of energy demand and production in hourly resolution and the Process Network Synthesis software PNS for the economic optimization of the energy system and the integration of diverse energy technologies. As a novelty we add an energy map for localizing energy transition measures taking into account the spatial dimension, we add open source data (especially meteorological), algorithms and models, which speed up the handling of our tools and added value potential calculations showing the cost-benefit ratio of energy transition measures. The innovation: Our tools foster a comprehensive approach including different technologies and ensure high spatio-temporal resolution. To make intelligent use of available data we develop data structures, calculation models and algorithms capable of quantifying transdisciplinary content, we create interfaces and workflows between our tools and set up a process design, which facilitates efficient implementation of energy strategies together with local stakeholders at different regional levels. The results: The main results are a digital toolbox and consulting service, which bridge a gap in the market and enable municipalities, cities and regions to tailor and implement ecologically and economically founded energy planning solutions considering spatial potentials in adequate quality and cost effectively. The consortium: It bundles all necessary competences and cooperates with test regions. Thus, we have the optimum preconditions for the project development, for application and for safeguarding the impact.
keywords tools (energy transition calculator RESYS, Process Network Synthesis software PNS) renewable energy potentials energy consumption, energy demand greenhouse gas emissions integrated spatial and energy planning energy concepts
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Project staff
Lore Abart-Heriszt
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Lore Abart-Heriszt
lore.abart@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85523
BOKU Project Leader
01.10.2019 - 30.09.2022
Gernot Stöglehner
Univ.Prof. Dr. Gernot Stöglehner
gernot.stoeglehner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85501, 85511
Project Staff
01.10.2019 - 30.09.2022
Franz Suppan
Mag. Franz Suppan
franz.suppan@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85718
Project Staff
01.10.2019 - 30.09.2022
BOKU partners
External partners
akaryon GmbH
Petra Bußwald
partner
Technical University Vienna
Hartmut Dumke
partner
Studia Schlierbach
Wolfgang Baaske
partner
STRATECO OG
Michael Eder
partner
Borovsky & Duschek GmbH
Manuel Borovsky
partner
Wind - Ingenieurbüro für Physik
Günter Wind
partner