Research center for energy industry

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Research Center for Energy Sector FfE
Research Center for Energy Sector FfE
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Category: research Institute
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Facility location: Munich
Type of research: Applied research
Subjects: Energy industry , engineering , natural sciences
Areas of expertise: Mobility, storage and networks, generation and market, resources and climate protection, industrial systems and processes, buildings and devices
Management: Florian Bieberbach (Chairman)
Employee: approx. 20
Homepage: www.ffe.de

The Research Center for Energy Economics e. V. (short: FfE e.V.) deals on a scientific basis with energy technology and energy management topics and tasks. The FfE is a non-profit association with members from energy , industry , science and government and private members based in Munich . The research center's statutory task is to promote science in the field of energy science, energy technology and the environmental aspects associated with energy and material flows . It fulfills this task through research , teaching and further education , information and documentation as well as through post-university further education of scientific employees.

history

On April 29, 1949 the Society for Practical Energy Customers was founded. V. (GfpE) was founded at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . The founders were Herbert F. Mueller, H. Meysenburg and the three founding companies RWE AG , Ruhrgas AG and Steag  AG. In 1952 the GfpE set up the Research Center for Energy Economics (FfE), which was named Research Center for Energy Economics at the Technical University of Karlsruhe on March 25, 1954 by the Technical University of Karlsruhe . On June 30, 1969 the headquarters of GfpE and FfE were relocated to Munich. Herbert F. Mueller was managing director of GfpE from the foundation of the company until his retirement in 1966 . In 1967 Helmut Schaefer took over the management of the FfE. Since 1995 the FfE has been managed by Wolfgang Mauch, honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich , as managing director. The scientific director is Ulrich Wagner , full professor at the chair for energy economics and application technology at the Technical University of Munich.

Areas of activity

digitalization

In addition to the expansion of renewable energies, the digitization of the energy industry will change the energy system and its actors with increasing networking of the infrastructure . The foundation stone is laid by the rollout of modern measuring equipment and intelligent measuring systems, as well as the associated IT processes, which will start in Germany in 2017. This new infrastructure offers the possibility to simplify or automate processes (e.g. billing of energy costs) and to integrate new components into the system (e.g. by controlling flexible units such as individual inverters). The research center examines where the opportunities and risks of a fully networked energy infrastructure lie and deals with innovations such as blockchain technology.

mobility

The research center is investigating how, in the field of mobility, a move away from fossil fuels and thus a reduction in CO 2 emissions can be achieved in the long term . The focus is on research projects on Intelligent load management of electric vehicles or integration of photovoltaic energy in electric vehicles as a project partner in the model community Garmisch-Partenkirchen the FfE with the projects was Sun2Car @ CAP and Smart Grid - based on an electro-mobile future involved prevail. Sun2Car @ GAP shows that the use of electric vehicles can further increase self-consumption of self-generated photovoltaic electricity. The main goal of the Smart Grid Controller project is to develop an economical, sustainable and cost-effective smart grid concept to maximize the proportion of electric vehicles and renewable energies.

Storage and networks

The association deals with the effects of the expansion of renewable energies on the network infrastructure. The objective is future-oriented and holistic network planning.

In the research project MONA 2030 (Merit Order Network Expansion 2030), a holistic, cross-system comparison of measures and technologies for network optimization, especially with regard to the feed-in of high proportions of renewable energies into the transmission and distribution networks, was carried out. The project was funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy as part of the Federal Government's power grid funding initiative (funding number 03ET4015).

In the field of energy storage , the research project Merit Order of Energy Storage 2030 examined which system infrastructure (power plants, grids, storage) under given boundary conditions (CO 2 targets, renewable energies, etc.) is the most favorable for the supply system from a cost perspective. The project was funded by the federal government as part of the energy storage funding initiative .

Production and Market

In this area, analyzes of the energy supply structures are carried out, taking into account the respective market environment , in order to be able to make statements about future energy requirements. In addition to the expansion of renewable energies, a more efficient use of fossil fuels is an important research focus.

Resources and climate protection

Against the background of future resource availability and increasing greenhouse gas emissions from the use of fossil fuels, the FfE has carried out research projects in the areas of range assessment of scarce resources , the effects of climate change , CO 2 reduction and alternative CO 2 offsetting measures. In recent years, a comprehensive, spatially and temporally highly resolved energy system model (FREM) has been developed at the FfE, which enables the processing of complex energy-technical and economic issues and provides spatially differentiated statements for many energy-economic areas. This energy system model uses a wide variety of technical data, statistical data sources and distribution keys for modeling. A flexible and at the same time consistent database across all aggregation levels and data sources is ensured.

Industrial plants and processes

In this field of activity, studies are carried out in the industrial area with regard to existing energy saving potential. For this purpose, measurements are carried out to record energetic data, consumption values ​​and emissions. Concepts to reduce energy consumption and CO 2 emissions are drawn up.

Buildings and equipment

The focus here is on creating a concept to reduce energy consumption and CO 2 emissions.

subsidiary

The Research Institute for Energy GmbH is a 100 percent subsidiary of FfE e. V. It was founded on February 16, 2001 under the name enwikon - Energy Industry Concepts GmbH .

Symposium

Since 1977 the Research Center for Energy Economics has held a conference every two years on current topics from the energy industry. The lectures of the symposium appear as a conference volume in the publication series of the Research Center for Energy Economics.

Scientific exchange of experiences

Bavarian energy efficiency network initiative

The Research Center for Energy Economics supports the Energy Efficiency Network Initiative (BEEN-i) with specialist contributions in the field of the successful introduction of energy efficiency networks.

Research network energy

The Energy Research Center is a member of all three energy research networks (buildings and quarters, system analysis, power grids) of the Federal Ministry for Research and Energy.

Energy dialogue Bavaria

The association was represented by its management and was a member of working group 4: Security of supply - electricity demand, secure performance, decentralized vs. Central supply as part of the three-month dialogue process Energy Dialogue Bavaria initiated by the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology.

Bavaria innovative

Since 2010 the FfE has been a member of the energy technology cluster of Bayern Innovativ GmbH, which was initiated in 1995 by the Bavarian State Government and founded jointly by politics, business and science for the transfer of innovation and knowledge. As a body entitled to make proposals, it participates in the awarding of the Bavarian Energy Prize, which will be awarded for the 10th time by the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology together with Bayern Innovativ GmbH in 2016.

Energy Commission of the City of Munich

Since 2015, Managing Director Mauch has been supporting the City of Munich's Energy Commission as an external expert .

Publications

The association regularly publishes its research results in specialist magazines from the energy industry in the form of specialist articles, interviews and project reports. The research center is represented in national and international conferences and workshops with lectures. Study results are made available to the public via the research center's website.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ https://www.ffe.de/die-ffe/die-struktur
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  4. ↑ Practical energy studies. Reports from the Society and the Research Center for Practical Energy Studies Karlsruhe . Energiewirtschaftlicher Verlag Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 1954
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  10. ↑ Models for the energy system of the future ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) Monthly report 01/2016 of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Optimizing power grids economically , Power grids - research initiative of the federal government, accessed on April 27, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmwi.de
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     26 , ISBN 3-89336-271-1 .
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  16. ↑ Research Society for the Energy Industry . Website of the Forschungsgesellschaft für Energiewirtschaft mbH. Retrieved January 8, 2018
  17. ↑ Research Center for Energy: Merit Order for a Sustainable Energy System: Proceedings for the FfE symposium . 2015, ISBN 978-3-941802-28-5 .
  18. ^ Kick-off event Bavarian Energy Efficiency Network Initiative (BEEN-i). (PDF) Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology, accessed on October 22, 2015 .
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  21. ^ Website Bayern Innovativ . Retrieved on October 20, 2015
    website Bayern Innovativ - Cluster Energietechnik . Retrieved October 20, 2015
  22. ↑ Authorized bodies for the Bavarian Energy Prize 2016 ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed October 20, 2015).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bayerischer-energiepreis.de
  23. ↑ Energy Commission with new external experts. May 15, 2015, accessed April 27, 2016 .
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    Key to the energy transition . In: Sonne, Wind & Wärme, Edition 08/2014
    Emission and primary energy factors every hour - consideration of developments in the energy sector in the life cycle assessment. In: BWK - the specialist energy magazine. Edition 09/2015.
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