Future Energy Lab

MA 23 – Call: 30-16 | Competence Team Research at Vienna’s Universities of Applied Sciences

The increasing expansion of renewable energy technologies and electromobility poses new challenges to energy industry players such as grid operators and energy suppliers. Increasing shares of volatile energy sources such as solar and wind require intelligent system coordination in order to harness flexibility potential through sector coupling, load shifting and the use of storage. The use of information and communication technologies plays a central role in the coordination of system components. The expansion of renewable energy technologies also leads to an increasing decentralization of the energy system. This structural change affects not only the players in the energy industry, but also private households, companies and institutions that want to meet their energy needs as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

The goal of the planned project is the development of a laboratory facility that offers students and interested parties the opportunity to work on practical solutions to the challenges associated with this structural change and to acquire and apply the necessary know-how in the areas of ICT, sector coupling, storage technologies and electrical engineering. For this purpose, it is planned to expand the  “Hybrid Energy Lab”, an existing laboratory facility at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. The planned laboratory expansion will focus on the following topics and issues: