Current Projects
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)
System analysis of transport solutions for green hydrogen (TransHyDE)
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
CO2Calc4Quartiere
Funded by: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
Cooperation: r2b energy consulting GmbH und BTB -Blockheizkraftwerks,Träger- und Betreibergesellschaft mbH Berlin.
Intelligente Digitalisierung der Energieversorgung zur Optimierung des Netzbetriebs und zur Erhöhung der Akzeptanz (IDiNA)
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
Kopernikus-Project Ariadne – Evidence-Based Assessment for the Design of the German Energy System Transformation
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.
Completed Projects
Leading the Working Group “Electricity Market Design” in the Project “Energy Systems of the Future”
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
Better price forecasts in the energy sector by combining fundamental and stochastic models (ProKoMo)
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
Correction and combination methods for forecasting to improve system integration of renewable energies (FOCCSI)
Cooperation and Funding: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy
Mobilising Endogenous Potentials for Structural Change – Decarbonisation in a Lignite Mining Region (DecarbLau)
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
Design of auctions for market premia for onshore wind generation: theoretical and experimental testing
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
Development of standardized load profiles based on measured load data
financed by: Distribution System Operator
Transformation Processes in the Sector of Energy Supply – Redefinition of Cooperative Model Communication Taking into Account Interactive Media Systems (E-Transform)
Cooperation and Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Project website: http://www.hs-augsburg.de/e-transform
Innovation Forum „Power-to-Heat“
Funding by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Fundamental gas market analysis for a gas trading utility in a context of the German energy transition process
Financed by: Gashandelsunternehmen
Cooperation: r2b energy consulting GmbH
Power-to-Heat: Use of Excess of Electricity for the Production of Heat as Option to Integrate Renewable Energy
Cooperation and Funding: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Acceptance of heat supply concepts in Eberswalde
Financed by: Energieversorgungsunternehmen
Analysis of standardized load profiles based on measured load data of residential and commercial customers
Financed by: Distribution system operator
Expertise for Designing Auctions for the Promotion of Renewable Energies
Cooperation and Funding: Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW)
Cooperation: r2b energy consulting GmbH
Optimal Design of Auctions for Ground-mounted Photovoltaic Facilities
Cooperation and Funding: Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW)
Cooperation: r2b energy consulting GmbH
Analysis of German Energy Policy from Brandenburg’s Perspective
Cooperation and Funding: Brandenburg Department of State
Analysis of German Energy Transition from Brandenburg’s Perspective
Cooperation and Funding: Brandenburg Department of State
Opinion On the Economic Eligibility for Support of a Biogas Company
Cooperation and Funding: Department of State
Opinion on the Economic Potential of a Photovoltaic Company in Brandenburg
Cooperation and Funding: Department of State
Economic Analysis of Long-term Natural Gas Supply Contracts
Cooperation and Funding: Gas Distribution Company
Consultancy project: ‚A Greenhouse Gas Neutral Germany until 2050’
Cooperation and Funding: German Federal Environmental Agency
Cooperation: r2b energy consulting GmbH (r2b)
Influence of Intermittent RES on Open Pit Mining Processes – Analysis and Optimization
Cooperation and Funding: Utility Company