Boysen-TU Dresden-Research Training Group
Paths to ecologically friendly, safe and competitive energy systems – Technical feasibility and societal impacts
Objective
In democracies, technical solutions which are not accepted from within society have a lesser likelihood of becoming realized. Vice versa political guidelines and citizens’ expectations show no relation to reality without detection of the corresponding technical solutions. Energy technology is a prime example. The in Germany enacted Energy turnaround, which requires increasing supply and use of sustainable and regenerative energy, calls for a restructuring of the whole energy industry. However, the infrastructural projects involved are face, in part, low acceptance within society. At the same time, the desired political targets can hardly be reached by using current technologies. The Boysen-TU Dresden-Graduiertenkolleg (also known as Boysen-TU Dresden-Research Training Group) research projects unite engineering science and social science to cooperate closely and interdisciplinary.The interdependence of technical design and social acceptance of sustainable energy systems, side effects and consequences are the focus of research.
Contribution of the Chair of Energy Economics
The Chair of Energy Economics is represented in Boysen-TU Dresden-Research Training Group with two project proposals. The first deals with the model-based study of the possibilities for the harmonization of the European goal of a single, cross-border energy market with the national energy policies. The focus is on Central Europe and on capacity mechanisms taking into account the existing infrastructure. With the help of scenarios both interdependence of individual measures, as well as effects of harmonization compared to national initiatives should be examined.
The second project analyzes flexibility options in energy systems to balance the fluctuating electricity generation of renewable sources. Technologies that can provide flexibility are in this sense, transmission systems, various storage options (centralized and decentralized), flexible conventional and alternative power plants, and the demand-side management. The aim is to examine which technologies in which time horizon compete with each other as well as how the energy sector regulatory framework gives incentives for the different technologies and how is the social acceptance.
Financing / Project Executing Organisation
Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen-Stiftung
TU Dresden
Internal / External Projecpartners
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernard Bäker (Fakultät Verkehrswissenschaften "Friedrich List")
Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther (Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften)
Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Lutz M. Hagen (Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Antonio Hurtado (Fakultät Maschinenwesen)
Prof. Dr. Dominik Möst (Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften)
Prof. Dr. iur. Jochen Mohr (Juristische Fakultät)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Mollekopf (Fakultät Maschinenwesen)
Prof. Dr. Werner J. Patzelt (Philosphische Fakultät)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Rainer Schach (Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Schegner (Fakultät Elektrotechnik)
Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Seidler, MPH (Medizinische Fakultät)
Persons Participating
Prof. Dr. Dominik Möst (Management of the Boysen-TU Dresden-Research Training Group)
Samarth Kumar (Scholarship holder)
Christoph Zöphel (Scholarship holder)
Runtime
1st July 2015 until 30th June 2018