SDG 9 aims to build a resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation. This involves not only modernizing the existing infrastructure in a sustainable way and improving resource efficiency in industry through environmentally sound technologies and processes, but also promoting scientific research, the technological capabilities of industrial sectors, and innovation.

Overview, targets and indicators of SDG 9

Forschungszentrum Jülich is helping to realize SDG 9 by bringing together employees from different institutes and organizational units to conduct research into a sustainable energy system.

Wind and solar energy are strongly fluctuating energy sources that present new challenges in terms of integrating these sources into a future energy system.

The Living Lab Energy Campus (LLEC) was founded in 2018 and serves as a platform for the development of innovative energy supply systems. This involves testing intelligent control strategies for thermal, electrical and chemical energy flows. To this end, various energy demonstrators – such as hydrogen technologies, lithium-ion batteries and photovoltaic systems – are being installed on the campus and networked with each other via an intelligent control platform. This creates a "real-life" laboratory where the various components and their interaction can be tested under true-to-life conditions.

The campus of Forschungszentrum Jülich is an ideal location for the living lab. Thanks to the self-contained Jülich campus, the existing network infrastructure of different years of construction and the diverse energy consumers on the campus, various scenarios of a future energy supply can be simulated.

“Our common goal is to develop an intelligent energy system that integrates the issues of sustainability, economic efficiency, and user comfort in equal measure. More than ten different institutes and organizational units are cooperating closely in a new, interdisciplinary way to achieve this, and are making a significant contribution to tackling the societal challenges associated with future energy systems,” says Dr. Stefan Kasselmann, LLEC project manager and head of the Intelligent Campus (TB-X) department.

Project Information

Further Information

Locations on Campus

Demonstrators

Overviews and brief descriptions of the individual demonstrators.

effzett Article on LLEC

LLEC in Brief

A brief overview of LLEC with an additional infographic.

Project Teams

Team

The project manager and the 9 team managers are primarily responsible for project development and success. Each team is in charge of their own work packages.