Introduction to the German Aerospace Center DLR and its Department Energy Systems Analysis: some research highlights

Kurzfassung

The consequential conversion of energy systems to carbon neutral entities correlates with several challenges with regard to technical applicability, economic concerns, and social acceptance (among others). The talk will highlight two current research areas in this field: (1) Analysis of potential resource scarcities in future energy systems including associated threads due to political tensions and import dependencies. (2) current challenges in energy markets with a focus on agent-based energy market modelling. (3) A synergetic integration of electric vehicles in electricity systems is from an techno-economic perspective highly attractive as system costs can be reduced. This is mainly based on the charging flexibility of electric vehicles. However, some socio-economic hurdles are still unsolved (and sometimes unidentified). The open source modelling approaches of integrating load flexibilities by electric vehicles to energy system models (i.e. the charging flexibility converter venco.py and our optimization framework REMix of the energy system) are highlighted.