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AIT leads accompanying evaluation for the German Ministry of Economics' 7th energy research programme
Affairs and Energy within the framework of the 7th Energy Research Programme (EFP). The German Federal Government promotes research and development in the field of forward-looking energy technologies [...] technologies. With the 7th Energy Research Programme, it supports companies and research institutions in researching and developing new technologies for the energy supply of tomorrow. With the Climate Protection [...] the Federal Government has set ambitious targets for reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions and for the share of renewable energies. The 7th EFP has been assigned a key role in establishing a link
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Female power for the energy transition
ies in the energy sector commissioned by the Climate and Energy Fund will be presented on 2 March at the event "Frauen stärken die Energiewende! - For more equal opportunities in the energy sector" event [...] in the study: The Center for Technology Experience, the Center for Energy and the Center for Innovation Systems & Policy. The energy sector in Austria is traditionally male-dominated. In 2016, the share [...] event "Women strengthen the energy transition" on 2 March in the run-up to International Women's Day, which takes place on 8 March. The AIT study examined the Austrian energy sector on the topic of gender
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EERA JP e3s Conference
reduction, the event provides an opportunity for an in-depth discussion on energy demand reduction in the context of the green energy transition. It aims at stimulating further research work, which will culminate [...] Info and Registration About: As an activity under the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA), the Joint Programme “clean Energy tranSition for Sustainable Society” (e3s) aims to advance research [...] On 26 October 2023, the EERA JP e3s Conference "Fostering changes in energy consumption: a pathway to demand reduction" takes place in Padova (Italy). The conference takes place in physical presence
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Building Technologies
the field of digitalization in building energy systems. Prof. Madani holds a PhD in Energy Technology and specialized in techno-economic analysis of Building Energy Systems with a focus on system modeling [...] currently leading several courses and research projects at KTH on the topics such as Energy Management, Heat Pumps, and solar energy systems for Buildings and cities. He is also a member of the Board of the European [...] KTH and AIT through development of a common research program in the field of Intelligent Building Energy systems. Links: https://www.kth.se/itm/inst/energiteknik/forskning/ett/personal/hatef-madani [Translate
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EERAdata: Tapping the full potential of energy data
Tapping the enormous potential of energy data is crucial for informed decision-making, guiding the successful transition to a clean energy system, and accelerating the uptake of research results. AIT is partner [...] efforts on opening databases and making low-carbon energy data findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable – in short: FAIR. "The players in the energy system need open and systematic access to databases [...] (AIT), Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Central Mining Institute (GIG), and European Energy Research Alliance (EERA). The European Commission
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EERA develops strategy for European Energy Research
at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) is the public research pillar of the EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan). Representatives from European research [...] carbon technologies and tightened their co-operation. EERA as a central hub of European Energy Research The European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) is a joint effort undertaken by more than 175 leading European [...] development of these new energy technologies to pave the way towards a low-carbon Europe. As Vice-Chair elected for a two year period Brigitte Bach, Head of Center for Energy defines the route „Our main
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ERIGrid 2.0 enables open access for research on the energy system infrastructure
integration of renewable energies, the digitalization of the networks and intelligent energy systems. The project is based on holistic, cyber-physical validations of the energy system, which can also be [...] validation of competitive concepts for the integrated energy system of the future, ”explains Thomas Strasser, senior scientist at the AIT Center for Energy and coordinator of ERIGrid 2.0. AIT SmartEST laboratory [...] and instruments of its infrastructures, which are now also open to external users. The Center for Energy of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology leads the European consortium of innovative research
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ISEC - International sustainable energy conference
phase-out of fossil fuels, the implementation of sector coupling and energy storage systems as well as the smart electrification of the energy supply will be the focus of the presentations and discussions. As [...] ideas for heat transformation in renewable energy systems and resource efficiency and facilitate a comprehensive exchange between research, industry, and energy policy. The conference programme consists [...] The focus of ISEC 2024 will be on how we can achieve energy sovereignty within a time horizon dictated by climate change and defined by politics. Global solutions such as the transformation
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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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NEFI Conference 2022
Business Upper Austria and is driving forward the industrial energy transition. NEFI is an energy model region promoted by the Climate and Energy Fund and supported by the federal states of Upper Austria [...] on the NEFI fields of innovation for the decarbonization of the industrial energy system. Technological innovation fields: Energy efficiency and new processes, renewables, storage and demand side management [...] s from politics, research and industry Scientific exchange on decarbonization of the industrial energy system Presentation and awarding of scientific papers The order of the day in Europe is climate
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ComForEn 2023
next generation of energy systems is expected to integrate many new technologies and applications (demand-response, flexibility services, market participation) across different energy vectors (electricity [...] major challenges on the way to an interoperable energy system. ComForEn 2023 is aimed at component and system manufacturers, power grid operators, energy suppliers, and research institutions. The list of [...] , TSO-DSO Interaction, Energy Management Systems, Aggregators, Virtual Power Plants, Charging Point Operators, Monitoring Systems, Metering Systems, Grid control systems, Energy Communities etc. Gaps
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Power Electronics as a Key Technology
intelligent drive technology and renewable energy. Smart Interfaces Energy systems are getting increasingly complex with the growing share of renewable energy sources. Therefore, the precise co-ordination [...] Power electronics has become a key technology for renewable energy and e-mobility. Intelligent grids and e-cars rely on these electronic components for power controls and conversion. The AIT Austrian [...] co-ordination becomes essential to ensure the energy supply stability where AIT provides a test bed for converters up to the MW range. In addition, real-time simulation converter models (digital twin) greatly benefit
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Climate change adaptation
Policy supports together with the Center for Energy & the Center for Digital Safety & Security as well as the Umweltbundesamt the Climate and Energy Fund (KLIEN) in the development of action plans [...] plans for research, technology and innovation in the infrastructure sectors of energy, water, transport and RTI policy recommendations. For this purpose, international RTI strategies are analysed, stakeholders [...] future RTI programmes of KLIEN. A first pilot tender is planned for the infrastructure sectors of energy and water in spring 2023.
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Bernadette Fina awarded ÖGUT Environmental Award 2021 in the category “Women in environmental engineering”
assess energy communities and the accompanying energy flows and impacts. Hereby a special focus is set on different settlement structures and participants as well as the combination of renewable energy generation [...] future-oriented field of energy communities convinced the independent jury of experts. After the conclusion of her doctoral thesis “On the profitability of PV sharing in residential energy communities", at AIT [...] of buildings to reduce CO2-emissions. Furthermore, she looks in detail at the legal framework for energy communities in Austria and beyond. Besides the regular publication in international journals, it
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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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New Energy for Industry 2021
industrial energy system. Day 1 of the conference will highlight the technological fields of innovation, Day 2 the systemic fields of innovation. Technological fields of innovation: Energy efficiency and [...] NEFI – New Energy for Industry, the innovation network for the decarbonisation of industry invites you to its first national scientific conference. The two-day event puts its focus on the NEFI innovation [...] and new processes, renewable energies, storage, and Demand Side Management (DSM), industry and grid. Systemic fields of innovation: Regulatory framework and policy, system solutions and infrastructure
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SIC! - Research on intelligent energy concepts for industry
planning of production processes can no longer be separated from energy issues. Many different, innovative technologies, such as thermal energy storage, factory-roof photovoltaic systems, industrial heat pumps [...] pumps or data processing need to be optimally tuned to save energy and money, protect the environment and reach the Paris climate goals. The opportunities for successful implementation of beforementioned [...] Concept!). It is supervised by Univ. Prof. Dr. René Hofmann, endowed professor at the Institute of Energy Systems and Thermodynamics of the TU Wien and at the AIT, one of the cooperation partners of the
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Study of AIT shows: More than 20 percent CO2 savings possible through intelligent building technology
need of renovation from an energy perspective. The study "CO2 Savings Potentials in the Building Sector" led by Gundula Weber, Senior Expert Advisor Sustainable Thermal Energy Systems, and Gerhard Zucker [...] intelligent building technology enables the optimal use of energy," says Gundula Weber. Significant efficiency increases also result from an overall energy refurbishment in drinking water heating and lighting [...] As one of the most energy-intensive sectors, the Austrian building sector still offers considerable potential for CO2 savings. In 2020, this sector generated eight million tons of CO2 equivalent
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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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Steam without gas
very proud that we can do our part through our flagship energy region, NEFI - New Energy for Industry". Wolfgang Hribernik, Head of Center for Energy, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and NEFI network [...] the Climate and Energy Fund and is being carried out as part of the research initiative "NEFI - New Energy for Industry" as part of the Austrian innovation offensive "Vorzeigeregion Energie". www.nefi.at [...] eutical company Takeda, the BMK, the Climate and Energy Fund and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT). Led by the AIT Center for Energy, the AHEAD research project is the first to integrate