News from applied energy research

From a simple warehouse to a highly automated industrial facility: many kinds of building fall under the definition of “non-residential building”.

In an urban environment, there are many approaches to reducing CO₂ emissions in the buildings, residential, and mobility sectors.

A local biogas network connects biogas plants. This enables operators to distribute their biogas and feed it into decentralised CHPs.

Preliminary data shows that the global photovoltaics market has grown significantly – notwithstanding the current COVID-19 pandemic.

New technologies for small industrial gas turbines in the 8-megawatt class have successfully passed tests and achieved CHP efficiencies above 85 %.

Research in the field of buildings and districts is currently developing numerous solutions to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

The power production of bioenergy plants such as biogas plants is aligned more closely with current demand through a bonus/malus system.

The start-up NexWafe has developed a novel method to produce silicon wafers. This has earned the company the Fraunhofer Founder Award 2020.

Consuming energy in the same place as it is produced has many advantages.