Research for a climate-neutral future: The transformation of our energy system towards 100 percent renewable energy requires good ideas and innovations from science in order to become increasingly efficient and ensure a reliable supply. The Energy Research Centre of Lower Saxony (EFZN) is pooling various research projects throughout the state to achieve this goal. zukunft.niedersachsen is supporting a new EFZN research program with 58.2 million euros.
Over the next five years, more than 180 researchers at 15 universities, universities of applied sciences and non-university research institutions in Lower Saxony, as well as other partners from other federal states, will be researching solutions for the energy system of the future in the “Transformation of the Energy System of Lower Saxony” (TEN.efzn) program. The projects will be bundled via the Energy Research Center of Lower Saxony (EFZN), a joint scientific center of the universities of Braunschweig, Clausthal, Göttingen, Hanover and Oldenburg.
Divided into six closely interlinked research platforms, the program combines the key strengths of Lower Saxony’s energy research and also opens up new innovative fields of research. A unique feature of the program is that it combines technical and scientific energy research with social science transformation research, thus creating a broad perspective for practical implementation. The aim of the program is to strategically develop and re-profile energy research in Lower Saxony by 2030.
TEN.efzn is funded with around 58.2 million euros from zukunft.niedersachsen, the joint science funding program of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and the Volkswagen Foundation.
The six specialized research platforms will address the various dimensions of the energy transition from both a technical and scientific as well as a social perspective. In the Reallabor 70GW Offshore Wind the planned expansion of wind energy in the German North Sea will be examined holistically in order to develop strategies for the sustainable expansion of offshore wind energy.
