Funded by: the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK)

Project duration: 01.01.2023 – 31.12.2025

Cooperation: TenneT (a transmission system operator in the Netherlands and in a large part of Germany) is associated partner.

The FOCCSI 2 project is particularly interested in investigating effective techniques for forecasting highly dynamic forecast variables, such as renewable energy sources. The central research topic is the development of statistical and machine learning methods for the correction and combination of forecasts, which are used to generate more powerful meta-forecasts. The project also focuses on conducting a cost-benefit analysis of each forecast, by investigating the trade-off between minimizing the financial burden of purchasing more forecasts and the achievement of a certain forecast quality of the combined forecast.

Achieving global climate goals requires effective and efficient management of CO2 in all sectors. From an economic point of view, this can only be achieved through a greater interconnection of the various energy systems (electricity, heat, gas, industry, transport and traffic) and the various system actors. The Energy Innovation Center (Energie-Innovationszentrum – EIZ) accompanies this global transformation of the energy sector by (co-)establishing and (co-)securing regional technology leadership for science and industry as well as the start-up competence of Lusatia in the areas of sector coupling and the intelligent, digital operation of energy systems. The aim is to ensure that the energy sector remains the mainstay of Lusatia's economic and technological identity even in the age of renewable energies and digitalization, and that the Lusatian mining region is further developed into a sustainable energy region serving this purpose. The EIZ consists of six networked laboratories (labs) with their own thematic focuses:

• Energy Economics Lab (EECON Lab)
• Electric Power Systems Lab (EPS Lab)
• Control Systems and Cyber Security Lab (COSYS Lab)
• Energy Storage and Conversion Lab (ESC Lab)
• High Power Grid Converter Lab (HPGC Lab) 
• Scientific Computing Lab (SC Lab)

Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Project duration:  Mid 2021 – 31.03.2025
Cooperation: More than 20 project partners from science and research institutions & 8 associated partners from the energy industry.

TransHyDE is one of the three German flagship projects on hydrogen, which represent a central contribution of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to the implementation of the National Hydrogen Strategy. Taken together, they represent the largest funding initiative of the Federal Ministry of Research on the subject of the energy transition to date. They make a decisive contribution to Germany's entry into the hydrogen economy.

TransHyDE website
Germany's flagship hydrogen projects

Funded by: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)

Cooperation: r2b energy consulting GmbH und BTB -Blockheizkraftwerks,Träger- und Betreibergesellschaft mbH Berlin.

Funded by: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)

Cooperation: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (OVGU), OFFIS e.V., PSI Software AG, SWW Wunsiedel GmbH, SWH Stadtwerke Haßfurt GmbH, Es-geht! Energiesysteme GmbH

Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Website: https://www.kopernikus-projekte.de/en/projects/ariadne

In addition to the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, 25 project partners are involved in the project.

Funded by: Project Office “Energy Systems of the Future” supported by acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities; financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Members of the Working Group (in alphabetic order): Dr. F.-D. Drake (innogy SE), Prof. Dr. O. Edenhofer (PIK), Dr. C. Growitsch (Fraunhofer IMWS / CEM), Prof. Dr. A. Moser (RWTH Aachen), Prof. Dr. W. Münch (EnBW), Prof. Dr. F. Müsgens (BTU), Prof. Dr. A. Ockenfels (Uni Köln), Dr. Dr. T. Paulun (EEX), Dr. K. U. Pritzsche (Linklaters), Prof. Dr. A. Wambach (ZEW), Prof. Dr. M. Weinhold (Siemens), Prof. Dr. H. Weyer (TU Clausthal)

Click here for further information: energiesysteme-zukunft.de/en/project/working-groups

Funded by: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy

Cooperation: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Operations Research, Analytics and Statistics, Prof. Dr. Oliver Grothe

Link to project website:  pro-ko-mo.de

Cooperation and Funding: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy

Financed by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Cooperation: Chair of General economics and Chair of Management of regional energy systems at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Halle Institute for Economic Research, Innovationsregion Lausitz, Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), TU Dresden

Cooperation: CERGE-EI (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute). CERGE-EI is a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

financed by: Distribution System Operator

Cooperation and Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Project website: http://www.hs-augsburg.de/e-transform

Funding by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Financed by: Gashandelsunternehmen

Cooperation: r2b energy consulting GmbH

Cooperation and Funding: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

Financed by: Energieversorgungsunternehmen

Financed by: Distribution system operator

Cooperation and Funding: Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW)

Cooperation: r2b energy consulting GmbH

Cooperation and Funding: Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW)

Cooperation: r2b energy consulting GmbH

Cooperation and Funding: Brandenburg Department of State

Cooperation and Funding: Brandenburg Department of State

Cooperation and Funding: Department of State

Cooperation and Funding: Department of State

Cooperation and Funding: Gas Distribution Company

Cooperation and Funding: German Federal Environmental Agency

Cooperation:  r2b energy consulting GmbH (r2b)

Cooperation and Funding: Utility Company