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From May 14 to 15, 2025, the final stakeholder conference of the “Underground Sun Storage 2030” project took place. Alongside many exciting insights from the project and the industry, our colleagues Andreas Zauner and Jovana Winkler also presented their findings about the following key topics: – The role of UHS in the energy transition (Impact […]

The first ‘Austrian Symposium on CO₂ Conversion Technologies’ took place on 29 April as part of our joint project ZEUS (Zero Emissions throUgh Sectorcoupling). The event provided interesting insights into current activities to utilise CO₂ as a potential raw material for a future climate-neutral circular economy. Our colleague Hans Böhm gave a presentation on ‘Circular

Our colleagues Hannah Aster and Lukas Zeilerbauer recently attended the second “openLCA.conf 2025” conference in Berlin. The first research results from our ZEUS project, which focuses on evaluating CCUs via life cycle analysis (LCA), were presented at the conference, as were the initial final results from the Neoblade project, which also focuses on LCA but

This central question was addressed by our colleague Giulia Garzon in her presentation at the SCORAI conference in Lund, Sweden, on 8 April. The project aims to pave the way towards a sustainable, climate-neutral, fair and resilient society, providing new insights and solutions to the most pressing sustainability-related challenges of our time. Further information can

On 2 April, our colleague Michael Denk had the opportunity to give a presentation on ‘Digitalisation Meets Climate Protection: Legal Framework for Energy-Efficient Data Centres’ at the International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS) in Porto, Portugal. The presentation highlighted how digitalisation and climate protection can go hand in hand – and

Last week, the final conference of the EU project CORALIS (http://coralis-h2020.eu) took place in Brussels. Our colleague Johannes Lindorfer presented the developments of the industrial clusters Basauri, Linz and Izmit. Key questions: How can the systemic transformation of energy and industrial sectors succeed? What is the role of business models, regulatory frameworks and data use

Marie-Theres Holzleitner-Senck and Michael Denk presented at the expert dialogue ‘Energy Planning 2.0’ of the project CleanHeatSelector the new legal framework for heat planning. The focus was on the new regime for acceleration areas and the requirements for the cascading use of solid biomass according to the RED III. A case study was also used

On 23 April, our scientific director of the Department of Energy Economics, Johannes Reichl, will be a speaker at the EPCON!His topic: Interdisciplinary cooperation in the energy sector – artificial intelligence and digital twins as catalysts He will talk about this:✅Challenges and limitations of traditional methods✅Security of supply as a requirement for interdisciplinary collaboration✅Examples of

When? Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 1.00-2.30 pmWhere? Online Language: German ▫️Is an energy community with long-term storage self-sufficient?▫️Is it already possible?▫️Are there technical? economic? legal barriers? In this workshop, the results on the topic of energy communities and long-term storage will be presented. Challenges and opportunities for energy communities and community-based long-term storage will be

The Energie AG organised its Innovation Challenge for the second time this year. 318 start-ups from 52 countries applied to support Energie AG OÖ with their innovative developments in solving future issues. Our scientific director of the Department of Energy Economics Johannes Reichl supported the selection of the winners for the challenge on how to