Institute for Solar Energy Supply Technology
| Institute for Solar Energy Supply Technology | |
|---|---|
| Category: | Research institution ( affiliated institute ) |
| Carrier: | State of Hesse and the University of Kassel |
| Facility location: | kassel |
| Type of research: | Applied research |
| Subjects: | Energy system technology |
| Areas of expertise: | Renewable energy |
| Basic funding: | State of Hesse |
| Management: | Werner Kleinkauf (founder), (1988–1998),
Jürgen Schmid (1998-2008) |
| Employee: | 180 |
| Annotation: | Raised in the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology |
| Homepage: | www.iset.uni-kassel.de |
The Institute for Solar Energy Supply Technology ( ISET ) was one of the University of Kassel affiliated non-university research institute ( An-Institute ), from 1 January 2009 - after the start of ISET in the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - the Institute Kassel branch of the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energiesystemtechnik IWES emerged.
The institute, founded in 1988, had specialized in application-oriented research on electrical and system technology for the use of renewable energies . Until the merger with the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft , the institute was an association in terms of its legal form ; the non-profit institute was sponsored by the State of Hesse and the University of Kassel. In 2008 around 180 scientists, students and employees worked at the institute. In addition to basic funding from the State of Hesse, ISET was primarily financed from publicly funded research projects and industrial contracts.
The core competence and field of activity of the institute was "Energy system technology for the use of renewable energies". The different technologies were combined to form systems and engineering questions to optimize the properties of the overall systems were examined. In this way, ISET bundled, among other things, the research and development work of the specialist institutes specializing in the respective individual technologies. All technologies for the use of renewable energies - in particular photovoltaics , wind, bio and marine energy and hydropower - were combined to form systems, including decentralized generators, energy storage systems , networks and load control . The key elements of this energy system technology were the power electronic actuators (especially the inverters ) and ICT-supported operating and control processes. The focus of research at ISET is on electrical systems.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 44.5 " N , 9 ° 28 ′ 39" E