P4: Limitations and Risks of Energy Systems to Ensure a Competitive and Low CO2 Supply of Electricity in Germany

The substitution of the previously used nuclear energy with renewable energy, especially wind and solar energy, presupposes the ability to store economically relevant amounts of electrical energy. This necessarily leads to a completely new, never before realized in structure and complexity of the energy supply industry and its connection to private households in Germany. In the context of rapidly intensifying global competition and in addition to the cost of raw materials, the technical efficiencies of the various energy conversion stages in the overall system of energy are particularly crucial. They will, in addition to the overall ecological balance, decide what additional costs are generated and measure whether the competitiveness of Germany as a partner in the global economy will remain. As part of the planned dissertation project and in close cooperation with other projects within the Research Training Group, the technical-technological conditions of the available energy conversion technologies until 2030 will particularly be analyzed and compared with competing energy supply systems. How far the implementation of new technologies will be achieved by the formulated targets in the energy concept of the federal government by 2030 and what technology acceptance problems may result therefrom is examined collectively.

Doctoral Candidate: Mark Erndt

First (Main-) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Antonio Hurtado

Second Supervisor:  Prof. Dr. Lutz Hagen in succession to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Donsbach ✝