ENSURE — EWI

Supporter:	Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Partners:	Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V., Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches e.V., Fachholschule Westküste, Forschungsgemeinschaft für Elektrische Anlagen und Stromwirtschaft e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Germanwatch e.V., Maschinen Fabrik Reinhausen GmbH, OFFIS – Institut für Informatik Oldenburg, Stadtwerke Kiel AG, Technische Universität Dortmund, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Öko-Institut e.V., Hitachi ABB Power Grids, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Schleswig-Holstein Netz AG, TenneT TSO GmbH, Siemens AG
Duration:	February 2020 until January 2023

The ENSURE research project is embedded in the funding initiative “Kopernikus projects for the energy transition” of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It addresses the challenges that the energy transition poses for the infrastructure, i.e., primarily the power grid.

Guiding questions of the research project are:

How will supply tasks change beyond 2030, considering the changing social, economic, and ecological conditions?
What technical challenges does this pose for energy infrastructures?
What network structures and technologies will be used to meet these challenges

Project Objectives

Analysis of future energy systems and energy network structures to develop a long-term systemic overall concept also beyond the year 2030.
Implementation of all necessary preparations for the establishment of the energy cosmos in ENSURE phase 3
Piloting of selected technologies in the demonstration region as a starting point for the energy cosmos ENSURE

Updating of the existing energy system scenarios until 2030 and extension until 2050
Preparation of the modeling results as inputs for the other project partners
Detailed evaluation of the CWE region with an analytic focus on Power-to-X
Content-related collaboration in the Kopernikus-spanning “Scenarios” working group
Identification of relevant interactions between individual elements of the market design (e.g., between grid fees and congestion management) and development of a theoretical model to analyze the identified interactions
Development of a model for the analysis of the incentive structure for CO₂ mitigation, e.g., concerning an efficient development of energy demand within the European framework and application of the model to the identified development of energy demand and CO₂ mitigation
Development of a model framework for the analysis of the market power potential in the distribution grid
Analysis of the market power potential within different coordination mechanisms of congestion management