Martin Lober / KIT

In a crisis-stricken world, the connection between energy and security policy is coming to the fore. Renewable energies promise greater independence from resource-rich countries and are key to mastering the energy transition and thus to achieving the climate targets enshrined in law: Reducing CO2 emissions and achieving greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045.

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Germany wants to complete its energy turnaround by 2045. Researchers from ESD outline how a sustainable transformation of the energy system can be achieved. In a "Policy Briefing", the scientists analyse possible future scenarios, taking into account ecological, economic, institutional, organisational and social aspects.

Within ESD, a Helmholtz Working Group on MCDA for Sustainability Assessment is active. Our mission is to advance the use of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) for supporting the transformation of energy systems. We provide a collaborative platform for researchers, fostering the development and dissemination of innovative methods and approaches in MCDA for sustainability assessment.The webpage is now online.

The Helmholtz Energy Computing Initiative (HECI) collects models, software tools, and data sets developed by members of the Helmholtz Association in order to make them available to the research community and the public in an organized manner. The HECI webpage is now online.

Research Facility 2.0 is an EU-funded research project aimed at making the operation of particle accelerators and other large-scale facilities more resource-efficient. The KITTEN test center at KIT plays a central role in the RF 2.0 project: It hosts researchers that are working on the analysis of important parameters and the development of realistic demonstrators. 

They cool and clean air, boost biodiversity, and support recreation: Trees in cities contribute in many ways to the well-being of the city people. In the URBORETUM innovation cluster, researchers from KIT are working with partners to find out what is needed to ensure that urban trees can provide their “services” even in times of increasingly extreme climatic conditions.