Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg
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 Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Foundation under civil law |
| Seat of the wearer: | Stuttgart |
| Branch office: | Merklingen |
| Type of research: | Applied research |
| Subjects: | Energy Technology |
| Areas of expertise: | Photovoltaics , hydrogen technology , energy storage |
| Management: | Frithjof Staiß , Michael Powalla , Werner Tillmetz (until September 30, 2018) |
| Employee: | 260 permanent employees + 90 scientific. and student. Auxiliaries |
| Homepage: | www.zsw-bw.de |
The Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) is a research institute that conducts applied research primarily in the field of lithium-ion batteries , fuel cells and solar cells as well as policy advice and energy transition monitoring for the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy operates.
History and organization
The ZSW was founded in 1988 as a non-profit foundation under civil law by the universities of Stuttgart and Ulm , the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the state of Baden-Württemberg with the ministries for economics and science and some companies. The headquarters of the ZSW are in Stuttgart and Ulm. The ZSW has around 260 employees and a further 90 student and academic assistants. The institute is headed by Frithjof Staiß , Michael Powalla and until September 30, 2018 by Werner Tillmetz . Until a successor to Werner Tillmetz is appointed, the Electrochemical Energy Technologies division in Ulm will be temporarily headed by Dr. Ludwig Jörissen and Dr. Margret Wohlfahrt-Mehrens.
New buildings for the ZSW: In 2014, an extension for a research production line was built in Ulm. In 2017, the move to the new headquarters of the ZSW at Meitnerstraße 1 in the Step area, the Stuttgart Engineering Park, between the university campus and Österfeld took place in Stuttgart.
On October 15, 2018, the ZSW celebrated its 30th anniversary at the Haus der Wirtschaft. On January 24, 2019, the ZSW was awarded a "place full of energy" by the Ministry of the Environment of Baden-Württemberg for its sustainable institute building in Stuttgart .
 
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Research activities
The main research areas of the ZSW are:
- Photovoltaic material research and development, in particular for photovoltaic thin-film technologies. In the field of CIGS thin-film technology, the ZSW set a new world record for thin-film solar cells with an efficiency of 22.6 percent in summer 2016.
- System development for photovoltaic applications
- Hydrogen technology
- Electrochemical energy conversion and storage
- Fuel cell development and manufacture
- Renewable fuels and process engineering
- Modeling and simulation
- Energy management system analysis
Among other things, the ZSW operates several research facilities:
- In Merklingen ZSW has since 1989 via the solar test field Widderstall .
- In October 2012, the ZSW commissioned the world's largest power-to-gas plant for the production of methane with a connected load of 250 kW ; it serves as a test facility to solve the problem of storing excess green electricity.
Research into the storage of excess energy in the form of natural gas is carried out in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology IWES. The research activities in the field of Power to Gas aroused wide media interest in 2011 and 2012.
Research into hydrogen as a vehicle fuel was carried out at the ZSW as early as the late 1980s. At that time , Die Zeit referred to Baden-Württemberg as a leader in research into hydrogen technology, and the ZSW was founded to bundle the state's competencies.
The world's largest factory for thin-film solar cells, which went into operation at Würth Solar in 2006, was developed to readiness for production by the ZSW, based on basic knowledge from the University of Stuttgart.
Memberships
The ZSW is a member of the Renewable Energy Research Association (FVEE), the Wind Energy Research Network South (WindForS) and the Baden-Württemberg Innovation Alliance (innBW). The ZSW is also a member of the Renewable Energy Statistics (AGEE-Stat) working group of the Federal Ministry of Economics and the Federal Environment Ministry , as well as a partner in the Power to Gas strategy platform of the German Energy Agency (dena).
Web links
- Official website
- Current publications of the ZSW in the study database of the Renewable Energy Agency
- older portrait from 2000 on the SolarServer
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research: ZSW. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m ZSW. Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg, accessed on January 25, 2017 .
- ^ ZSW: history. Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg, accessed on January 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Axel Vartmann: Push forward for German battery production. In: oekonews.at. December 14, 1998, accessed December 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Rebecca Beiter: Energy transition on the Step area. Stuttgarter Zeitung, November 1, 2016, accessed on January 25, 2017 .
- ↑ 30 years of research for the energy transition - ZSW celebrates its anniversary. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Institute building of the ZSW awarded. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
- ↑ ZSW Stuttgart - A facade that generates energy. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg. Energy with a future. Research Association for Renewable Energies (FVEE), accessed on December 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Press release 09/2016. (PDF) Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg, accessed on January 25, 2017 .
- ^ Peter Lechner: PV test field. ZSW, accessed January 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Europe's largest PV test field expanded. Sonne Wind & Wärme, October 13, 2013, accessed on January 26, 2017 .
- ↑ ZSW: The world's largest power-to-gas plant for methane production goes into operation. (Press release) (No longer available online.) Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg, October 30, 2012, archived from the original on November 8, 2012 ; Retrieved December 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Store green electricity as natural gas. (Press release) Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology, April 26, 2010, accessed on December 10, 2012 .
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Examples:
- Stefan Schultz: Step on the gas: How to turn light and wind into natural gas. In: Spiegel Online. April 15, 2011, accessed December 12, 2012 .
- Christoph M. Schwarzer: Wind power in the cavern. In: Zeit Online. September 10, 2011, accessed December 12, 2012 .
- Heiko Rehmann: Power-to-Gas: Only the ZSW has mastered this process so far. In: Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de. October 30, 2012, accessed December 12, 2012 .
- Sabine Voith: The marketability of Power-to-Gas technology is getting closer. In: Springer for Professionals. December 3, 2012, accessed December 12, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Helga Keßler: The stuff that dreams are made of. Hydrogen as future energy. In: The time. September 8, 1989, accessed December 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Frithjof Staiß becomes the new head of the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW). In: SolarServer. Heindl Server GmbH, June 27, 2007, accessed December 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Research: Network WindForS starts in southern Germany. International Economic Forum for Renewable Energies (IWR), June 7, 2011, accessed on December 11, 2012 .
- ↑ Working group on renewable energy statistics (AGEE-Stat). (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, January 21, 2010, archived from the original on November 5, 2012 ; Retrieved December 10, 2012 .
- ↑ ZSW Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg. German Energy Agency (dena), accessed on December 12, 2012 .