Research Projects

Chiang Mai is the largest city in northern Thailand and a popular tourist destination for around 7 million tourists a year. The number of visitors, especially from China, is steadily increasing and has tripled between 2007 and 2017. In response to rising demand, the range of hotels on offer is constantly being expanded and is concentrated geographically primarily in city districts with a high level of architectural heritage. Together with the Fraunhofer IMW, Leipzig and the School of Public Policy (SPP) of the University of Chiang Mai (CMU), a concept is being developed to facilitate integrated urban development in historic districts.

Chiang Mai is the largest city in northern Thailand and a popular tourist destination for around 7 million tourists a year. The number of visitors, especially from China, is steadily increasing and has tripled between 2007 and 2017. In response to rising demand, the range of hotels on offer is constantly being expanded and is concentrated geographically primarily in city districts with a high level of architectural heritage. Together with the Fraunhofer IMW, Leipzig and the School of Public Policy (SPP) of the University of Chiang Mai (CMU), a concept is being developed to facilitate integrated urban development in historic districts.

REgions is a collaborative research and demonstration project of the three European countries Austria, Germany and France. It develops tailor-made solutions for the provision of ancillary services of regions with high shares of fluctuating renewable enrgy sources (RES).

REgions is a collaborative research and demonstration project of the three European countries Austria, Germany and France. It develops tailor-made solutions for the provision of ancillary services of regions with high shares of fluctuating renewable enrgy sources (RES).

The use of battery systems for applications with short-term high-power peaks issues a challenge in terms of an economical design due to a physical relationship between capacity and maximum power. In such applications, it is reasonable to combine batteries and supercapacitors in order to reduce the power peaks on the batteries. In so doing, a more advantageous design in terms of size, service life and costs of the storage system can be achieved.

The use of battery systems for applications with short-term high-power peaks issues a challenge in terms of an economical design due to a physical relationship between capacity and maximum power. In such applications, it is reasonable to combine batteries and supercapacitors in order to reduce the power peaks on the batteries. In so doing, a more advantageous design in terms of size, service life and costs of the storage system can be achieved.

The research project RobustPlan investigates how a preferably good service security considering simultaneously a high cost efficiency can be reached, despite large uncertainties in the energy political framework, characteristics of energy scenarios or changes in the energy mix. For this, extensive scenarios, probabilistics, sensitivities and therefore also automations are needed. Despite uncertainties regarding the future developments, decisions for non-regretted investments and operational measures have to be decided today.