In ReMoDigital, experts from academia and industry are developing an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary framework for the resilient design of the digital energy transition. The project focuses on developing a system-analytical stress testing toolkit, including a concept for its social integration. Based on this foundation, a resilience monitoring system will be established.
Project Coordination: Dr.-Ing. Bert Droste-Franke
IQIB Team 'ReMoDigital': Davy van Doren, Dr. Markus Voge
Duration: September 2020 – June 30, 2024
Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), 7th Energy Research Programme, call for proposals on energy system analysis
Further Information:
Resilience research and climate adaptation
Project Team: Dr. Hans Christian Gils (DLR Institute of Networked Energy Systems, Stuttgart), Professor Arnim von Gleich (University of Bremen), Professor Carl Walter Matthias Kaiser (University of Bergen), Professor Jörg Knieling (HafenCity University Hamburg), Professor Sebastian Lehnhoff (OFFIS Oldenburg), Dr. Karsten von Maydell (DLR Institute of Networked Energy Systems, Oldenburg), Professor Dr. Dr. Ortwin Renn (IASS Potsdam), Dr. Thomas Vogt (DLR Institute of Networked Energy Systems, Oldenburg), Dr. Wolfgang Weimer-Jehle (ZIRIUS University of Stuttgart), Dr. Christian Winkler (DLR Institute of Transport Research, Berlin), Professor Thomas Ziesemer (UNU-MERIT)
Partners: DLR Institute of Networked Energy Systems; DLR Institute of Transport Research; ZIRIUS Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies, University of Stuttgart; OFFIS e.V.
In ReMoDigital, experts from academia and industry are collaborating through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to develop a framework for the resilient design of energy transition digitalization. The project centers on developing a system-analytical stress testing toolkit, including a concept for its social integration. This foundation will support the establishment of a resilience monitoring system.
As conventional energy sources are increasingly replaced by fluctuating renewable energy sources, the control of energy flows and storage systems takes on entirely new significance for daily energy provision. To rely completely on such new technologies, they must be implemented to function reliably even under adverse conditions, such as extreme weather events or system manipulation. The tools developed in this project are designed to help ensure system security.
To address the entire system comprehensively, the project integrates both national-level system properties and typical regional and local conditions. The analyses cover electricity, heat, and transport sectors, with a focus on energy system and ICT technologies as key enabling technologies. Through interactive visualization of analyses, results, and sensitivities, the toolkit is specifically designed for effective use in deliberative-discursive co-design processes (transparent, interactive, flexible in assumptions, etc.).
The toolkit aims to integrate system knowledge, knowledge about possible courses of action, and knowledge about social evaluation of impacts to assess the resilience of digital options and design resilient solutions through social processes (e.g., within expert commission frameworks). By incorporating context scenarios and considering social impacts, the project goes far beyond typical techno-economic analyses.
In addition to project management, IQIB's work focuses on conceptual development within a typical interdisciplinary IQIB project group framework, developing appropriate indicators, and integrating system analyses into interactive visualizations. These are designed to enable discursive-deliberative reflections on results and thus socially and epistemically robust analyses of the resilience of digitalization options for the energy transition.