Project Duration: 01.09.2016 – 30.08.2019 and 01.11.2019 – 31.10.2022 | Consortium Leader: PTW TU Darmstadt | Project Partners: more than 80 partners from science, industry and civil society, including the Fraunhofer Institute for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology (IGCV) and AEP Solutions | Project Homepage: https://www.kopernikus-projekte.de/projekte/industrieprozesse
Objective
SynErgie is an interdisciplinary consortium with broad participation from energy-intensive industry. Led by TU Darmstadt and the University of Stuttgart, more than 80 cooperation partners from science, industry and civil society work together to integrate energy-intensive industrial processes into the future energy system.
For a holistic, synergetic development of solutions, the industrial application partners collaborate with leading research institutes in the fields of production and process engineering, energy management, (business) informatics and the social, legal and economic sciences.
Results
In implementing the developed concepts of industrial demand-side flexibility in the "Energy-Flexible Region of Augsburg", a large number of companies and civil society organizations from the region are getting involved in order to guarantee the economic viability and social balance of the developed solutions.
By applying flexibility measures, the energy supply costs of industry could be reduced by more than EUR 10 billion by 2020.
Industrial Benefit
In addition, CO2 emissions can be reduced considerably. Even today, around 60 percent of positive control power (electricity demand exceeds supply) and approximately two percent of negative control power (electricity supply exceeds demand) could be covered exclusively through DSM measures in industry.
This potential can be increased further through necessary technological innovations, for example by effectively binding surplus renewable energy in value-adding processes.
Significance
Current estimates assume a potential of 6.9 gigawatts of positive and 4.0 gigawatts of negative control power for particularly energy-intensive industrial processes in the coming years. So far, this potential has largely remained untapped in Germany.
With the SynErgie project, flexibility measures in industry are being demonstrated across sectors for the first time in Germany, opening up new possibilities for DSM measures at Germany as an industrial location.
Publications
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