Helmholtz-Plattform zum Design robuster Energiesysteme und Rohstoffversorgung (RESUR)

The Helmholtz Platform for the Design of Robust Energy Systems and Raw Material Supply (RESUR) project initiative focuses on the short-term proactive and reactive, model-based provision of decision-making bases against the backdrop of current political, social and technological events and developments (such as Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine).

The overall project serves to support strategic decision-making on security of supply and the accelerated implementation of the energy transition in Germany, in the European environment and with the inclusion of key global imports. The aim is to operate RESUR in the long term and to adapt the software model suite existing within the Helmholtz Association to new challenges in constant dialogue with political and industrial partners.

Through its work, ICE-2 is making a significant contribution to achieving the goal of providing timely insights into the design of the existing and future sector-integrated German energy system within a global context. The energy system is intended to be resilient to disruptive events as well as to rapidly changing political, social, and technological conditions.

As part of the project, disruptive events in the energy system are identified at various levels of influence, and the resulting short- and medium-term scenarios are modeled using existing energy system models for analysis. In particular, the ETHOS model suite is used to examine the robustness of the German energy supply system, taking infrastructure into account. Furthermore, robust transformation pathways for the sector-coupled energy system will be identified across short- and medium-term time scales, leading up to greenhouse gas neutrality.