Current Projects
WIR - WI+R - VirHand
Project description:
The joint project "VirHand - Virtual Reality to Support Crafts" is a 15-month research project funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. In this project, the BTU chairs FG Energy Economics and FG ABWL, in particular Organisation and Business Management, are working together with regional partners.
Like many other regions undergoing structural change, Lusatia is facing a far-reaching social, ecological and, above all, economic transformation. The "VirHand" project addresses the important bottleneck of the labour market in the implementation of structural change in an energy region. The project pursues two objectives:
- Improved qualification of employees and trainees in the skilled trades sector with the help of virtual reality/augmented reality applications
- The use of VR/AR to establish the region's image nationally and internationally as an energy region in an exciting transformation phase with excellent working conditions.
It is possible to complete a thesis as part of this research project.
Project duration:
01.07.2025 - 31.12.2026
Project partner:
Other associated partner companies
Funding:
The "VirHand" joint project is part of the "WI+R" (Digital Repair Factory) alliance and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space as part of the "WIR! - Wandel durch Innovation in der Region" programme.
Contact:
Prof. Dr Alexander Martin, Department of Business Administration, in particular Organisation and Business Management (joint project coordination)
Dr Christin Hoffmann, Research Group Energy Economics
Correction and combination methods for forecasting to improve system integration of renewable energies (FOCCSI 2)
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.
Energy Innovation Center (Energie-Innovationszentrum – EIZ)
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)
The Kopernikus project Ariadne - evidence-based assessment for shaping the German energy transition
Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Project duration: 2023 - 2026
Website: https://www.kopernikus-projekte.de/projekte/ariadne
The Chair of Energy Economics is part of the work package for the further development of electricity and energy market design. This package will develop and discuss decision bases for the further development of the energy market design. In a case study, the Chair of Energy Economics is investigating the effects of supply uncertainties on the procurement costs of green hydrogen. Furthermore, the Chair of Energy Economics is contributing to a work area that is researching the development and evaluation of the design of green electricity certificates in order to supply voluntary consumers with climate-neutral electricity.