Sustainable Energy
The consensus of national and European climate policy is that a sustainable energy supply must be secure, affordable and climate-friendly in the long term. In order to meet the requirements of the Paris Climate Agreement and achieve Germany's climate protection goals by 2050, all sectors in the energy system must be aligned with the goal of CO2 reduction. This requires significant changes to the energy system and includes, above all, the conversion of energy production from fossil fuels to renewable energies such as wind and solar as well as the expansion and redesign of the transmission and distribution network infrastructure towards intelligent networks, measures for energy saving and energy efficiency, sector coupling, flexibility of the power supply and the further development of the electricity market assocaited with this. Sustainable energy supply makes a significant contribution to the European Commission's Green Deal and the Federal Government's National Bioeconomy Strategy.
Selected expertise at the Kiel UAS:
- energy storage
- electrical networks/smart grids
- high-voltage technology
- grid integration of renewable energies
- energy conversion and decentralised generation
- marine and offshore technology
- holistic condition monitoring and service life prediction of offshore wind turbines
- energetic use of biomass
- energy systems in rural areas
- resource-saving construction/materials
- aerodynamics of wind turbines
Key infrastructure at the Kiel UAS:
- Institute for Electrical Engineering
- Renewable Energy and Climate Change Competence Centre Schleswig-Holstein (EEK.SH)
- Power Electronics Competence Centre Schleswig-Holstein
- Smart Energy Competence Centre
- FINO3 research platform