At the Institute of Networked Energy Systems at the DLR, the overarching goal is to make the energy transition in the economy and society successful through research. The institute develops transformation strategies and technical solutions to efficiently link the electricity, heating, transport, and industrial sectors. To this end, it collaborates with partners from industry and research to build a holistic understanding of the system and to design effective system solutions.

The research teams consider all levels of the energy system in their work—from centralized large-scale infrastructures such as storage caverns to electricity and gas grids and the technical equipment of buildings. They take into account technical, economic, political, ecological, and social framework conditions and create valuable synergies through cooperation between technical and systems analysis research groups.

Within these areas of work, the institute generates large amounts of heterogeneous data, which it shares with the scientific community and society. Drawing on lessons learned from developing the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) within DLR’s space research field, it applies tools for federating data sources and enabling their semantic understanding, inspired by the principles of the semantic web.

Task Areas

In Task Area 8, together with the InfAI, the Institute of Networked Energy Systems develops a federated interface to semantically discover energy system research data. The aim of the toolset of Databus and MOSS is the be able to annotate research data with multiple different metadata schemas from different research domains and to use this rich information to discover data.

Involvement

The Institute of Networked Energy Systems is also part of NFDI4ING, working on reproducible workflows for modelling exercises.

DLR is also part of NFDI4Earth, NFDI4Microbiota, and Punch4NFDI.