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To be able to limit the temperature increase to clearly under 2 ℃ above pre-industrial levels, the European Union and Germany in particular are facing profound change in their energy system in the coming years. The end of coal-fired power generation, the coupling of different sectors (e.g. electricity, heat, mobility…) and the associated digitization are confronting companies with changed market and framework conditions. In order to master this change towards a sustainable and reliable energy supply and to use it as an opportunity, innovative technologies and well-trained specialists and managers are needed. The combination of in-depth knowledge from the fields of energy technology with in-depth knowledge of digitization and its business models as well as IT security offers a unique opportunity to master these challenges in a sustainable and controllable manner. This paper addresses challenges arising from the digitization of the energy system and shows exemplary solutions from projects at the recently established Fraunhofer Center for Digital Energy.
This paper is an extended version of an invited keynote presentation given by the first author at the SmartGreens 2020 conference.
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Build-up of the Fraunhofer Center Digital Energy is partially funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as an immediate advance project (Sofort-Sofort-Projekt) within the national “Structure Strengthening Law”. Additionally, we acknowledge funding, and thank all the participants, of the following individual projects: OneNet (One Network for Europe) by EU H2020 sub-program “TSO – DSO Consumer: Large-scale demonstrations of innovative grid services through demand response, storage and small-scale (RES) generation” ; SEAM4US by EU FPT (285408); PlaMES and Flex4Grid by EU H2020 under grant agreements 646428 and 863922; MEDIT by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) reference 0350028. Pebbles by BMWi under Smart Service Welt II grant 01MD18003B; and SynErgie by the BMBF Kopernikus program.
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Jarke, M. et al. (2022). Digital Energy: Towards Comprehensive Digital Support for a Renewable-Based Energy Sector. In: Klein, C., Jarke, M., Helfert, M., Berns, K., Gusikhin, O. (eds) Smart Cities, Green Technologies, and Intelligent Transport Systems. VEHITS SMARTGREENS 2021 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1612. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17098-0_22
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