The sustainable decarbonisation of our energy systems must be achieved to counteract the climate crisis. This presents us with unprecedented regulatory, social, economic, and technical challenges.
These challenges will affect electricity systems, gas supplies, industry, transport and mobility, housing and heating, as well as agriculture. The researchers at the ENERGETIC Research Center at TU Graz are developing innovative and interdisciplinary solutions in order to actively shape this transformation process.
Sustainable and efficient energy systems are important pillars of support that will enable the EU and Austrian climate goals to be achieved. Comprehensive research work is particularly needed on three levels. At the system level, optimisation and simulation systems are being developed that can be used to map the decabonisation of energy systems, provide techno-economic support, and evaluate this transformation. At the methodological level, the focus is being directed towards the evaluation of data sets that are used to intelligently plan and control energy systems by means of artificial intelligence. On the hardware level, the existing energy infrastructure is being analysed, new technologies to store energy from sustainable sources are being developed, and technical tools are being created to use energy more efficiently and reduce energy consumption.
