Projects within the framework of open4innovation
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IEA UsersTCP Social License to Automate 3.0 (Working period 2025-2027)
With increasing digitalization, automated energy systems are gaining in importance. The IEA UsersTCP task "Social License to Automate 3.0" investigates the conditions under which people accept and actively support automated and digitally controlled energy applications – from smart tariffs to flexibility platforms. Austria contributes practical insights from energy communities, home energy management systems, and user research.
IEA Wind Energy Systems (Wind TCP)
The mission of the Wind TCP is to stimulate co-operation on wind energy research and development and to provide high quality information and analysis to member governments and commercial sector leaders. The focus lies on technology development and deployment, as well as market and policy instruments.
IEA Wind Task 51: Forecasting for the weather driven energy system (Working period 2024 - 2027)
The project aims to improve forecasting accuracy for weather-dependent energy systems to enable the efficient integration of renewable energies. The focus is on physical/statistical and machine learning-based modelling of energy production from renewable energy sources, reducing uncertainties, and enhancing the communication of forecast information to the energy sector. International collaboration within the framework of the task aims to help develop standards and best practices that advance both research and practical applications.
IEA Wind Task 52: Large-Scale Deployment of Wind Lidar (Working period 2022 - 2026)
Task 52 works towards the widespread adoption of wind LiDAR-systems and provides a strong opportunity to generate and spread knowledge and experience through global networking. Energiewerkstatt contributes to Task 52 with a comparative study of data availability of different LiDAR measurement principles under Alpine conditions and will take an organisational role in the creation of guidelines for the use of ground-based LiDAR in wind energy applications.
IEA Wind Task 54: Wind Energy in Cold Climates (Working period 2025 - 2029)
In order to achieve the expansion targets for renewable energies, generation plants will increasingly have to be erected at locations with more demanding framework conditions in the future. For wind energy, this means planning and operating turbines under icing conditions in many countries. The task examines and evaluates technological solutions in this environment and publishes procedural recommendations in the form of technical reports and guidelines.
IEA Wind Task 62: Social Science for Collaborative Wind Energy Planning & Participation (Working period 2026 - 2027)
The Wind Task 62 explores social science approaches to promote acceptance and equitable participation in wind energy development. The Austrian contribution “WindPlan” uses innovative, participatory and inclusive methods based on immersive 3D visualizations and interactive gamification elements to contribute to fair and transparent planning processes and create a best practice example for sustainable wind energy development.
IEA-SHC Task 50: Advanced Lighting Solutions for Retrofitting Buildings
Retrofitting of non-residential buildings with energy efficient daylight and artificial lighting solutions can significantly contribute to reductions in electric energy consumption. However, appropriate technologies have to be made available to the stakeholders (investors, industry, consultants, designer) that are involved in the retrofitting process. Thus, system solutions for daylighting and artificial lighting were evaluated, simple rating and evaluation tools were developed and case studies that serve as best practice examples were monitored. The results were collected in the Lighting Retrofit Advisor, which helps stakeholders within the lighting retrofit process.
IEA-SHC Task 66: SOLAR ENERGY BUILDINGS - Integrated solar energy supply concepts for climate-neutral buildings and communities for the "City of the Future”
The energy supply for climate-neutral buildings is based on holistic system concepts that achieve high renewable fractions by intelligently combining technologies, sector coupling, high grid interaction and flexibilization measures. The Solar Energy Buildings Task supports exactly this development. The objective is to identify relevant stakeholders and their needs, to develop a technology portfolio and optimised integrated energy concepts and to give recommendations to policy makers and energy-related companies.
IK-EnErGie-Knoten - Intermunicipal Electricity and District Heating Network St. Ruprecht–Weiz–Gleisdorf
The IK-EnErGie-Knoten project is developing a sector-coupled, bidirectional energy system for the climate-neutral city of the future. The intelligent networking of existing electricity and heating infrastructures and new cooperation models that transcend property boundaries are creating a scalable energy hub that serves as a model for Austria.
IMP – Intelligent Maintance Planner & Inspection Knowledge Based Maintenance Managment Systems
Intelligent Maintenance saves Costs. Efficient planning and running of industrial maintenance saves costs and conserves resources. The required information normally already exists. It just needs to be used.
IMPACT – Hybrid hydraulic and electric charging of stratified compact hot water
The IMPACT project is developing an innovative decentralised hot water storage technology for large-volume urban housing. Thanks to a novel, flat design, the system enables highly efficient utilisation of renewable energy sources such as heat pumps and photovoltaics. The aim is to create a cost-efficient, sustainable solution for decarbonising water heating that is optimised using intelligent energy management and machine learning methods.
IceDrip
Aircraft anti-icing and de-icing through assemblies of conducting varnish and functional coatings
InSite - Monitoring and evaluation of innovative demonstration buildings
In the "Stadt der Zukunft" and "Smart City Initiative" programmes, a large number of demonstration projects have been implemented in recent years. To be able to evaluate the developed innovations in a uniform and comparable form and to make the knowledge gained accessible to implementers, InSite subjects 10 selected objects from these programmes to energy and ecological monitoring as well as sociological surveys over a period of 24 months. The interpreted results are publicly available as a published study and as an interactive online platform.
Innovation lab EnergieRaumLabor - Innovation lab in the WEIZplus region for spatial energy data, innovative financing models and knowledge management
EnergieZukunft WEIZplus eGen is focused on transforming the energy system in the WEIZplus region towards 100% renewable energy. The regional energy transition is being significantly accelerated through the involvement of a wide range of regional players and the use of local resources.
Innovation lab INNERGY (Tyrol): Living Lab for 100% renewable energy with a focus on optimised heat supply
The INNERGY InnoLab develops, accelerates and supports projects for the energy transition, it secures the gained knowledge and it brings successful applications into a brought usage.
Innovation lab Murau: real-world laboratory of the energy transition for inner-alpine regions
The # InnoLab Murau as a strategic hub for setting up suitable structures and implementing new roles for the players in a 100% renewable energy system.
Innovation lab Waldviertel: 100% renewable energy
The innovation lab “InnoLab W4” creates an material and immaterial framework for developing model solutions for a 100% renewable energy supply together with users and tests them in real-life environment. The focus is on user-oriented knowledge transfer, the development of an RTI infrastructure, the validation of system solutions and the mobilization of stakeholders.
Innovation lab act4.energy - next level (Burgenland): Regional energy cells as multi-energy living labs for a rapid system transition
Regional, decentralized solutions for a 100% renewable energy supply. Implementation of an energy cell concept that enables decentralized energy generation, load management, and grid services, ensuring a cross-sector energy supply based on regional energy resources.
Innovation lab act4energy
The Innovation Lab act4energy is set up as an innovation laboratory project. Its focus is to solve the problems of renewable energies integration with a focus on photovoltaic power paired with local consumption, linked to the the high fluctuation of renewable energies.