Under the title "Green Energy Supply for the Einstein-Telescope", ISATEC, together with YTPF Engineering (Hasselt, Belgium), develops a modelling framework for a safe, reliable and ecologically sustainable energy supply, which is applied for the first time in Project Einstein Telescope. The simulations required for this are carried out in such a way that transferability to comparable energy systems in other application areas is possible. 

Renewable energies are on everyone's lips at the moment, but many questions remain unanswered by the public: "Where is the electricity supposed to come from without fossil power plants when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow?" or "Isn't the production of hydrogen from renewable energies far too expensive?". Such questions can be answered with the help of the numerical modelling framework that will be developed within the proposed project. Within this framework, models of real energy systems are created. These energy systems can be individual houses, city districts or industrial plants. For the modelling, we research economic and technical data for individual system components, but also for overall societal trends (e.g. development of electricity and gas prices over the next 20 years). With this data, we can then calculate an optimized future energy system. Our results can be used to support decision-makers in politics, business and society. These often do not pursue just one goal, but have to weigh up competing interests, e.g. between costs, reliability and CO2 emissions. We therefore improve and use modern methods to support decisions, even in complex situations of interest, and to find the optimal balance between cost aspects and user-friendly energy supply. 

This project is funded by the Innovation Voucher ET2SMEs.