Research focus of JenErgieReal

Project content

• Technical and economic realisation of the virtual power plant under the regulatory conditions of a regional grid operator

• Development of a calibrated direct current measurement

• Mapping of an energy market for sector coupling

• Definition of automated transaction management

• Simulation of large-scale electrical storage scenarios

• Energy storage system versus conventional grid expansion

• Economic operating scenarios

• Derivation of suitable operator models

• Long-term objective:

  • Shaping the energy transition for the company and the region in a climate-friendly, economical, sustainable and therefore future-proof way
  • Scaling a virtual power plant from laboratory scale to the city of Jena

Responsibility sub-project

Project content

• Integration of decentralised heating systems for thermal sector coupling in the quarter 

• Utilisation of the heat losses generated during the fast-charging process in a decentralised heat pump storage system

• Analysis of economic and regulatory framework conditions

• Development of business models

Responsibility sub-project

Project content

• New processes and forms of coexistence for a higher quality of life and more attractive living space design

• Reduction of operating costs by reducing electricity consumption and heating costs 

• Property management taking into account social, technical, economic and ecological parameters

Responsibility sub-project

Project content

• Development of building-internal ICT infrastructures that extend down to the room level of residential and commercial units

• Provision of measurement and control processes that support the variable services

• Provision of interfaces to all parties involved

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Project content

• Application to municipal urban development and neighbourhood development processes

• Interactions with politics, the market and legislation

• Development of planning guidelines for sustainable neighbourhood development
• Effects of energy-efficient urban development
• Influence of age- and environmentally friendly neighbourhood development
• Cooperation between stakeholders in sustainable neighbourhood structures
• Presentation of the results in an energy centre
• Mediation between science and practice
• Inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge transfer

Responsibility sub-project

Projektinhalte

• Component mobility in the virtual power plant:

  • Charging infrastructure as an intelligent load in the energy supply system

  • Integration of suitable electric micromobility (e-scooter, e-bike)

  • Integration of Car-to-X-features

• Effects of the energy transition on every day life and work

• „Data-sector-coupling“ as basis for AI-based analysis and processes in geriatric care.

Responsibility sub-project

Project content

• Social science evaluation of the project in the context of people, housing and the environment
• Series of surveys and guideline interviews on utilisation and acceptance as well as the consequences for the groups of people involved in the project
• Empirical analysis of specific user behaviour and its effects
• Analysis of the smart living infrastructure (home equipment, metering system, smart home equipment)
• Potential for improving the energy industry framework conditions (regulatory learning)

Responsibility sub-project

Project content

• Modelling the ICT infrastructure for the virtual power plant
• Security requirements for the ICT infrastructure
• Data analysis and services (big data)
• Interdisciplinary information management
• Realisation of central monitoring
• Definition of a smart computation cloud

• Scientific supervision of the overall objective
• Development of solutions for future neighbourhoods from end consumer to producer
• Special consideration of regulatory learning

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