Energy Research Center Lower Saxony

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Entrance to the research center for energy storage technologies (former Rammelsberg barracks )

The Energy Research Center Lower Saxony ( EFZN ) is a joint scientific center of the TU Braunschweig , the TU Clausthal , the University of Göttingen , the University of Hanover and the University of Oldenburg .

As an energy science networking platform, the EFZN coordinates the competencies of the individual universities in the natural and engineering sciences as well as law , social and economic sciences . It organizes events to support the transformation of the energy system, in which actors from science, business , politics and civil society exchange ideas.

At the university locations, research activities are carried out in intra-university research associations, each with its own focus. The office is located in the building of the Research Center Energy Storage Technologies of the TU Clausthal on the "EnergieCampus Goslar " (site of the former Rammelsberg barracks ).

history

The EFZN was founded in 2008 as an institution of the Clausthal University of Technology. In the first years of its existence (until 2015) she worked on transdisciplinary projects with interdisciplinary know-how requirements for public and private clients together with institutes active in energy research at the TU Braunschweig, the University of Hanover, the University of Göttingen and the University of Oldenburg. As part of its organizational reorganization, the EFZN has been a joint institution of the five above-mentioned Lower Saxony universities since 2016, but they continue to conduct their relevant research decentrally at the respective locations. The EFZN is primarily responsible for the strategic alignment and bundling of the energy research activities of the member universities with a common external presentation.

Following the original transdisciplinary research approach, since then scientists from the TU Clausthal from the natural, engineering and social sciences continue to work under one roof on the EnergieCampus Goslar in the "Research Center for Energy Storage Technologies" in joint research projects on overarching issues that are not relevant to a single scientific discipline can be answered.

Selected research projects (EFZN until 2016)

  • Reuse of decommissioned mines for use as underground pump storage (2009-2010)
  • Lower Saxony research association for geothermal energy and high-performance drilling technology (2009–2014)
  • Suitability of storage technologies to maintain system security (2012-2013)
  • Energy scenarios for Lower Saxony (with CUTEC ) (2015–2016)

Events

The EFZN organizes several transdisciplinary specialist events every year:

  • Göttinger Energietage (since 2009, in cooperation with the Federal Network Agency )
  • Lower Saxony Energy Days (since 2009)
  • Power-to-Heat dialogue platform (since 2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Electricity from the mine - without coal: underground pumped storage power plants planned. (No longer available online.) In: 3sat.de. May 21, 2013, archived from the original on January 22, 2018 ; accessed on June 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Pumped storage power plant: The Harz is to become Germany's electricity storage facility. In: haz.de. March 24, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2018 .
  3. ^ Geothermal energy in Lower Saxony. Press release. In: mwk.niedersachsen.de. Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, May 20, 2009, accessed on January 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Study: Suitability of storage technologies for maintaining system security . Final report. Energy Research Center Lower Saxony, Goslar 2013 ( Download [PDF; 5.4 MB ; accessed on February 5, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Round table on the energy transition - report confirmed: Lower Saxony can switch completely to renewable energies by 2050. In: Environment.niedersachsen.de. Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Building and Climate Protection, October 24, 2016, accessed on January 30, 2018 .

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