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Commercial flagship plant for bioethanol production involving a bio-based value chain built on lignocellulosic feedstock
The main goal of the EU-funded project LIGNOFLAG is the construction of a first-of-its-kind commercial scale plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues based on the innovative sunliquid® technology. The new flagship...
Regulatory Framework for a Renewable Energy System – Begleitforschung „Energie.Frei.Raum”
In the Energy.Free.Room program of the Austrian Climate Ministry, R&D projects are approved that will/can use the newly established regulatory sandbox provision in the electricity and gas sectors for the first time, as well as...
Seasonal storage in an optimal regulatory framework by assessing various opportunities
The project aims to address the legal and regulatory framework conditions of long-term energy storage. For this purpose, different variants of regulatory implementations of an extended implementation of seasonal storage services will be developed and...
Social innovation Modelling Approaches to Realizing Transition to Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
SMARTEES is a transdisciplinary research project which aims to support the energy transition and improve policy design by developing alternative and robust policy pathways that foster citizen inclusion and take local peculiarities into account. To...
Envisioning and Testing New Models of Sustainable Energy Cooperation and Services in Industrial Parks
S-PARCS presents a concept for reducing energy costs and consumption in industrial parks, while increasing on-site renewable energy production. The pre-assessment of the seven lighthouse parks from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria participating in the...
Development of a stationary electricity storage system via high temperature co-electrolysis and catalytic methanation
Conventional Power-to-Gas systems (storage of surplus electricity in CO2 neutral gases) operate with electrolysis of water and optionally with subsequent methanation. With the flagship project HYDROMETHA a novel, fully integrated system of CO2+H2O high-temperature co-electrolysis...
Community-based Smart Energy Service through flexible Optimization
The Serve-U project develops and validates an energy use optimisation platform that enables energy communities to control the use of renewable energy sources in a flexible and demand-optimised way with minimal technical and financial effort....
Datennutzung in PV-Netzwerken: Smarte Analysen & Prognosen, deren Einsatzszenarien und Entwicklung von Geschäftsmodellen
The weather-dependent fluctuation of PV production is a major challenge for end users, electricity suppliers and distribution network operators. The acquisition of additional data as well as their linking / fusion with existing data can...
Wissenschaftliches Netzwerk im Rahmen der Konferenz der Regierungschefs der Partnerregionen Bayern, Georgia, Oberösterreich, Québec, São Paulo, Shandong und Westkap
The Energy Network is a scientific network which conducts joint research and exchanges under the framework of the political forum the Regional Leaders Summit (RLS). It was initiated as a result of the 6th RLS...
Energy CHOices supporting the Energy union and the SET-Plan
ECHOES is a multidisciplinary research project providing policy makers with comprehensive information, data and policy-ready recommendations for the successful implementation of the Energy Union and SET-Plan. Individual and collective energy choices and social acceptance of...
Innovative model to drive energy security and diversity in the Danube Region via combination of bioenergy with surplus renewable
The Danube region holds great potential for the sustainable generation and storage of renewable energies. So far, however, this region is heavily dependent on energy imports, while energy efficiency, diversity and the share of renewable...
Inclusive DIALOGUES towards an operational concept of energy
DIALOGUES will support the Energy Union with operational research on energy citizenship that enables citizens to take a central role in the energy transition. To reach this objective the project will operationalise, contextualize, measure, and...
WIVA P&G HyWest: Regional Green Hydrogen Economy
The aim of the flagship project is to create a business case-driven green hydrogen region in Tyrol. The sectors of green energy, green mobility and green industry are interconnected at the regional level. Within HyWest,...
Renewable energy communities as a solution for energy poverty?
Can renewable energy communities be used to mitigate the energy crisis and lift people out of energy poverty? If so, how and under what conditions? These questions are addressed in a briefing prepared on behalf...
Market design & regulation
Transformation of the energy system – Energy market design – New technologies