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The ZNES has set itself the goal of researching, developing and implementing permanently environmentally and climate compatible energy systems and energy technologies. The center's research and development work ranges from the details of individual technologies to the development of consistent target scenarios for 100% renewable energy supply systems or the formulation of strategies to ensure fully climate-compatible local or regional development.

  • Innovation lab: Storage for the utilisation of renewable energies in the true north - open heat storage planning (Inno!Nord - OWP)

    Project term:
    01.03.2024 to 28.02.2027
    Project leader(s):
    Tuschy, Ilja
    Research cluster:
    Thermal Systems, System Integration

    With the help of the T!Raum initiative ‘Innovation Lab: Storage for the Utilisation of Renewable Energy in the True North’ (Inno!Nord), an environment is to be developed within which the right deve

  • OptIES Dörpum - Offene Optimierung sektorgekoppelter regionaler Energiesysteme am Beispiel des IES Dörpum

    Project term:
    01.09.2022 to 31.08.2024
    Project leader(s):
    Oei, Pao-Yu

    In order to achieve the nationally and internationally agreed climate protection goals, it is necessary to convert the energy supply to renewable sources in all sectors.

  • Potenzialatlas für eine Wasserstofferzeugung in Deutschland

    Project term:
    01.07.2022 to 31.12.2024
    Project leader(s):
    Behrens, Jochen; Voglstätter, Christopher; Wendiggensen, Jochen
    Research cluster:
    System Integration

    According to current scientific knowledge, the generation of hydrogen by means of electrolysis in the power-to-hydrogen process (PtH2) is an elementary component of sector coupling and essential fo

  • TRAJECTS - Transnational Centre for Just Transitions in Energy, Climate & Sustainability

    Project term:
    01.05.2021 to 31.12.2025
    Project leader(s):
    Oei, Pao-Yu
    Research cluster:
    System Integration, Climate Protection

    The Transnational Centre for Just Transitions in Energy, Climate & Sustainability (TRAJECTS) will support and strengthen transcontinental exchange, research & education on transitio

  • openEntrance (open ENergy TRansition ANalyses for a low-Carbon Economy)

    Project term:
    01.05.2019 to 03.2023
    Project leader(s):
    Oei, Pao-Yu
    Research cluster:
    System Integration, Climate Protection

    openEntrance is a 4-year research and stakeholder engagement program funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 835896.

  • EnSu - Die Rolle von Energie-Suffizienz in Energiewende und Gesellschaft

    Project term:
    01.05.2020 to 30.04.2025
    Project leader(s):
    Wiese, Frauke
    Research cluster:
    System Integration, Climate Protection

    In order to be able to acheive the 1.5 degree target, three strategies of the energy transition are needed: sufficiency(of the absolute reduction of energy consumption through social innov

  • DiaMo-Sylt - Insularer Dialogprozess Mobilität

    Project term:
    01.11.2021 to 31.10.2022
    Project leader(s):
    Oei, Pao-Yu; Rieve, Catharina
    Research cluster:
    System Integration, Climate Protection

    In order to achieve the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C as defined in the Paris Climate Agreement, the climate-friendly and environmentally friendly transformation of all sectors is essen

  • CoalExit

    Project term:
    01.10.2017 to 30.09.2022
    Project leader(s):
    Oei, Pao-Yu
    Research cluster:
    System Integration, Climate Protection

    One of the central societal questions after the climate conferences COP21 and COP22 is how the global consumption of coal can be reduced in a targeted manner through adequate energy and climate pol

  • CINTRAN - Carbon Intensive Regions in Transition - Unravelling the Challenges of Structural Change

    Project term:
    01.05.2020 to 30.04.2024
    Project leader(s):
    Oei, Pao-Yu
    Research cluster:
    System Integration, Climate Protection

    CINTRAN is a 4-year research and stakeholder engagement program funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 88459.

  • TeStUp: TechStartUp@HS-Flensburg

    Project term:
    01.04.2020 to 31.03.2024
    Project leader(s):
    Looks, Volker; Manoharan , Dodwell; Plöhn, Gunnar

    On the way to becoming the region's innovation engine with high charisma: The "TeStUp" project strengthens the university strategy of supporting start-up-promoting structures that has already been

  • AquaCombine

    Project term:
    01.10.2019 to 30.09.2023
    Project leader(s):
    Uellendahl, Hinrich

    The AQUA-COMBINE project aims to design and demonstrate a biorefinery system for cultivation and valorization of halophyte plants.

  • TESPy: Thermal Engineering Systems in Python

    Project term:
    Fortlaufendes Projekt
    Research cluster:
    Thermal Systems

    TESPy ("Thermal Engineering Systems in Python") is an open-source-licensed software for the simulation and calculation of thermal energy systems, such as heat pumps and refrigeration machines, ther

  • eGo^n

    Project term:
    01.12.2019 to 30.11.2022
    Project leader(s):
    Wendiggensen, Jochen
    Research cluster:
    System Integration

    Driven by the expansion of renewable generation capacity and the progressing electrification of other energy sectors, the electrical grid increasingly faces new challenges: fluctuating supply of re

  • oemof: open energy modeling framework

    Project term:
    Fortlaufendes Projekt
    Research cluster:
    Thermal Systems, System Integration, Climate Protection

    The Open Energy Modelling Framework (oemof) is a tool for modelling and analyzing energy systems.