Resource Strategies for the Energy Transition | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heidi Heinrichs

The Resource Demand and Potentials team examines both the demand for and supply potential of resources. The supply side includes primary, secondary, and unconventional resources and reserves of materials, land and water as well as the associated supply routes. The team uses this to develop knowledge about resources available today and in the future that could be available to cover resource demands. The team integrate this potential with analyses of demand under different socio-technical and geopolitical developments. With this the team can identify technology and material-specific bottlenecks and alternatives.

The Integrated Resource Assessment team focuses on the development of models that enable the integrated analysis and assessment of robust resource and energy systems. The integrated resources cover the entire spectrum of the department, i.e. materials including reserves as well as land and water. A particular focus is on maintaining the computational capability of the models despite a high level of temporal, spatial and technological detail and developing robust scenarios. In this way, the team makes a significant contribution to identifying robust and safe transformation paths for the energy transition.