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AIT opens high performance DC LAB
data centres. Wolfgang Hribernik, Head of the Center for Energy: “At the Center for Energy we are developing solutions for future innovative energy supply. We offer our customers and partners high quality [...] for DC components.” Friederich Kupzog, Head of the Competence Unit for Electric Energy Systems at the Center for Energy: “There are very few comparable labs in Europe, and the new DC Lab enables us to [...] the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology opened its new DC (direct current) lab at the Center for Energy. The state-of-the-art direct current laboratory marks a significant expansion of the current facilities
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Cancellation: Opening of the AIT DC Lab
situation and will be postponed until May 2022. WELCOME TO AUSTRIA’S UNIQUE DC-LABORATORY AIT Center for Energy has the pleasure to announce the opening of Austria's unique DC-laboratory. The new facility
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Expo Dubai 2020: AIT presents digital city planning know-how in the iLab
With the City Intelligence Lab (CIL), the AIT Center for Energy will be an essential part of the i-Lab at the heart of the Austria Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020: As part of the world exhibition, the experts [...] le Future Urban Planning" to show how cities can be planned under the aspects of climate change, energy and mobility. The workshops will take place on 4th November 2021 and 17th February 2022 in Dubai [...] expertise to a broad international audience in Dubai," says Wolfgang Hribernik, Head of Center for Energy. City Intelligence Lab - an international showcase lab The lab is an interactive platform for exploring
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Bernadette Fina wins Science Award of Lower Austria
Fina, Center for Energy, was awarded a recognition prize for her research on different aspects of energy communities. Her research deals with the topics of the profitability of energy communities in single [...] building renovation on the profitability of energy communities and the potential estimation of cost-optimal photovoltaic capacities in case of a roll-out of energy communities. Video nomination of Bernadette
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GrazLog receives honor from VCÖ Mobility Award Styria
goods delivery in cities causes traffic jams on the roads, considerable pollution and noise, high energy consumption and, last but not least, increased transport costs. After the award “HERMES Logistkpreis
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Industrial heat pumps for a climate-neutral European industry
enormous potential for energy efficiency and the reduction of CO2 emissions On 6 July 2021, Timur Gül, Head of the Energy Technology Policy Division of the International Energy Agency (IEA), opened the [...] increase energy efficiency by up to 80 per cent, reduce CO2 emissions by up to 80 per cent and also cause up to 20 per cent less productions costs. Wolfgang Hribernik, Head of Center for Energy at the AIT [...] Center for Energy, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. As part of DryFiciency, three demonstration projects were carried out in the field of industrial drying, as drying processes are very energy-intensive
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New Energy for Industry 2021:
ion, energy efficiency and renewable energy supply. The two presentations from the NEFI Industrial Board highlight the requirements for cross-sectoral cooperation between industry and the energy sector [...] New Energy for Industry 2021 will be made available for review after the conference. The links are on the website:https://www.nefi.at/new-energy-for-industry-2021 About NEFI NEFI – New Energy for [...] the transformation of the industrial energy system Around 50 speakers from research, business and politics Decarbonisation and transformation of the industrial energy system is an essential contribution
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Suez Canal Blockage: AIT expert Anita Graser analyses disruptions in mobility patterns
For six days, the 400-metre-long and 59-metre-wide Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal, one of the world's most important waterways. The container ship ran aground, showing once again how important saf
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Best practice for a sustainable production
heat pumps is an essential building block for a future and efficient energy system“, explains Wolfgang Hribernik, Head of Center for Energy at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. New Heat Pump Technology [...] processes After evaluating the production processes, the energy sources used and the possible efficiency measures, the AIT Center for Energy drew up a decarbonisation concept for the Vienna site of the [...] operation and use of more efficient equipment enable reduction of CO2 emissions by 15% Optimizing energy consumption and the resulting reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from industrial production processes
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Innovation Challenge for green building
responsible for a significant part of global energy consumption. In terms of environmentally sound construction, not only this energy consumption but also the energy for the building materials and their production [...] ecological building and renovation, baubook.at, the energy input for the production of a building is about the same as the input for heating a low-energy house over a period of 50 years. Environmentally sound [...] renewable energy sources and ecological building materials. The benchmark for environmentally sound construction is the Oekoindex OI3, which takes into account the dimensions of primary energy content of
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Digital urban planning know-how for the Frankfurt skyline
The AIT Center for Energy, together with the renowned Frankfurt architects Albert Speer & Partner, has been awarded the contract to draw up the Frankfurt high-rise development plan 2021. The plan [...] explains Nikolas Neubert, Head of the Digital Resilient Cities Competence Unit at the Center for Energy of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. "This brings enormous added value for the client [...] population," explains project manager Martin Traunmüller, Research Engineer at the AIT Center for Energy. "With our digital planning tools, we can not only plan a new skyline, but also take into account
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Presentation of the Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda of the Horizon Europe Partnership "Clean Energy Transition" & "Driving Urban Transitions”
Center for Energy (Helfried Brunner) was involved in the identification and preparation of the 8 Research & Innovation Challenges: CETP Challenge 1 "Optimised integrated European energy systems" [...] heating and cooling solutions" CETP Challenge 5 "Integrated Regional Energy Systems" CETP Challenge 6 "Integrated Industrial Energy Systems" CETP Challenge 7 "Integration in the built environment" CETP [...] At a side event of the SET-Plan Conference 2020, the two Horizon Europe Partnerships "Clean Energy Transition" and "Driving Urban Transitions" will present their strategic research and innovation agendas
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ERIGrid H2020 project wins RGI "Good Practice of the Year" award
environmentally sensitive grid development to enable further steady growth of renewable energy and the energy transition. More Information: About the award: https://renewables-grid.eu/activities/good [...] The ERIGrid H2020 project, coordinated by AIT Senior Scientist Thomas Strasser, AIT Center for Energy, is the winner of the Renewable Grid Initiative’s (RGI) “Good Practice of the Year” award in the category [...] ERIGrid. The award ceremony was taking place online on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 in context of the 6th Energy Infrastructure Forum, the Copenhagen Forum 2020, organized by the European Commission, DG ENER. In
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AIT wins ISGAN Secretariat and Operating Agent for the third time
Action Network (ISGAN) is an technology cooperation programme of the International Energy Agency and the Clean Energy Ministerial with the aim of promoting the development and dissemination of Smart Grid [...] worldwide. The 26 members of this high-profile network within the framework of the International Energy Agency (IEA) include China, the USA, Russia, India and Japan, the countries with the highest electricity [...] to closely examine its strategy and structure and make changes where necessary. The AIT Center for Energy was very intensively involved in this strategy process and will also accompany it in further planning
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NEFI: Innovation network for emission-free industry grows by four additional projects
The innovation network NEFI - New Energy for Industry has been granted funding for four new projects by the Climate and Energy Fund within the framework of the Energy Model Region with a total project [...] Leoben, the Upper Austrian Energy Saving Association and the Upper Austrian location agency Business Upper Austria and bundles the diverse experience in the field of energy research and project implementation [...] is developing technological and systemic solutions that will enable the energy transition in industry. The Climate and Energy Fund already supports NEFI projects with 12,2 million Euros and allocates
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ERIGrid 2.0: 1st call for the use of 21 European Smart Grids Labs starts
call for the use of 21 European Smart Grids and Smart Energy Systems Laboratories starts Now online: Virtual Access Service for research on energy system infrastructure and further education The ERIGrid [...] Grid and Smart Energy Systems laboratories to external users and young researchers. The project is working on the provision of holistic, cyber-physical validation methods for the energy system of the future; [...] participation: On 1st October 2020 the first call for the use of 21 European Smart Grids and Smart Energy Systems laboratories has started. Researchers and engineers can now apply for the participation until
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René Hofmann becomes Principal Scientist at the AIT Center for Energy
has joined the team of the Center for Energy in his new position as Principal Scientist and is dedicating his research effort to the scientific investigation of energy sector coupling in the industrial context [...] climate-friendly industrial energy systems. From 2015 to 2020, René Hofmann was involved in the successful establishment of research activities related to industrial energy systems as part of an endowed [...] context by means of digital technologies and novel methodologies. The energy industry is in the middle of a far-reaching transformation. This includes changed framework conditions due to the achievement
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Digital solutions for the fight against climate change
& Security / Crisis and Disaster Management https://www.ait.ac.at/cdm/ Center for Energy https://www.ait.ac.at/energy/ More Details at https://myclimateservices.eu/ and https://myclimateservices.eu/en [...] digital platforms and IT systems which allow land use planning, architecture, traffic management and energy supply to be designed for all areas of our lives in an era of climate change. The CLARITY (Integrated [...] involved in the project include Austria’s AIT (Center for Digital Safety & Security and Center for Energy), the Austrian Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG, Vienna), Smart Cities Consulting
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AIT Center for Energy: Whitepaper on industrial heat pumps
AIT Center for Energy has contributed to the Whitepaper on industrial heat pumps, which presents and outlines the status of the technology and steps needed to realize its decarbonization potential. Heat [...] Heat pumps are an energy efficient electrification technology which are able to replace a large share of fossil fueled industrial process heating. To accelerate the implementation and further development [...] ambitions to move towards a net-zero carbon economy by 2050, radical changes are needed to the current energy supply in the industry. Electrically driven heat pump technology has been proposed for supplying
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Tara Esterl takes up the position as Head of Competence Unit Integrated Energy Systems (IES)
regulatory issues. Integrated Energy Systems research field For the sustainable energy system of the future, the interplay between technologicalal innovations and energy management aspects is of great [...] January, Tara Esterl (33) is heading the newly founded Competence Unit Integrated Energy Systems in the Center for Energy at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. In her new position she is responsible [...] portfolio of Integrated Energy Systems comprises techno-economic analyses, the use of flexibility in the electricity system, the development of business models and their effects on energy markets, regulatory