Projects

Overview

This maintains a list of projects where IESopt was applied as part of the modeling approach. Entries are in alphabetical order. If you want to contribute a new project, please follow the instructions in the section on contributing below.

List of references

cells4.energy

Factsheet
title	Regional energy cells as multi-energy real laboratories for a rapid system transition
homepage	ait.ac.at
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	B. Iglar

Description
The cells4.energy project establishes living labs in diverse Austrian regions to develop, test, and scale a decentralized, digital, and cross-sectoral renewable energy system based on replicable energy cells, supporting the national energy transition through systemic, technological, and societal innovation.

CleanHeatSelector

Factsheet
title	Development of a decision framework for the selection of priority areas for the implementation of sustainable heating technologies
homepage	energieinstitut-linz.at or boku.ac.at
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	B. Mayr

Description
The CleanHeatSelector project aims to develop a decision-making framework for identifying priority areas for sustainable heating technologies by integrating technical, environmental, social, economic, and regulatory criteria into energy planning.

DeRisk-E

Factsheet
title	Derisking the Austrian Electricity Sector Transformation towards Decarbonisation
homepage	-
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	D. Suna

Description
DeRisk-E aims to support Austrian policymakers in derisking the future decarbonized electricity system by combining climate and power system modeling with uncertainty analysis to assess the joint impacts of climate change and geopolitical disruptions on energy resilience.

DeRiskDH

Factsheet
title	Risk mitigation in decarbonization of urban heating networks through grid temperature reductions and flexibility use
homepage	ait.ac.at
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	R. Schmidt

Description
Risk minimization for decarbonizing heating networks via network temperature reductions and flexibility utilization.

ENABLE-DHC

Factsheet
title	Enabling strategies and investment plans for efficient, multi-energy and digitalized DHC
homepage	ait.ac.at
funding	ec.euopa.eu
AIT contact	R. Schmidt

Description
ENABLE DHC aims to foster the switch of district heating and cooling (DHC) networks towards efficient DHC as defined in the Energy Efficiency Directive, by developing 9 case studies of investment plans in 7 European countries.

Fair-Grid

Factsheet
title	Options for Fair Grid Charges to Enhance the Energy Transition in Austria
homepage	wifo.ac.at
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	C. Corinaldesi

Description
The Fair-Grid project investigates equitable financing mechanisms for electricity grid expansion and maintenance in a renewable energy transition, ensuring economic efficiency and protecting low-income stakeholders.

Fair-Heat

Factsheet
title	A Comprehensive Analysis of Options for a Fair Heat Transition in Austria
homepage	wifo.ac.at
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	G. Resch

Description
The Fair-Heat project investigates how to achieve a socially equitable and technically feasible decarbonisation of Austria’s residential building sector by 2040 through model-based analysis of building upgrades, energy system integration, and policy mechanisms, with particular attention to investment needs, electricity interactions, and impacts on vulnerable households.

GOES

Factsheet
title	Geothermal based Optimized Energy Systems
homepage	goes-project.info
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	N. Marx

Description
The project GOES aims to develop a Platform-Based Design (PBD) framework to enable rapid and transferable innovations and implementations of geothermal coupled energy systems.

H2REAL

Factsheet
title	Hydrogen Region East Austria goes Live
homepage	ait.ac.at
funding	klimafonds.gv.at, Vorzeigeregion Energie @ ffg.at
AIT contact	S. Reuter

Description
The project H2REAL aims to establish a Hydrogen Valley in Eastern Austria by integrating key regional stakeholders across the entire green hydrogen value chain to enable efficient demonstration and scalable deployment of hydrogen technologies.

Heat Highway

Factsheet
title	Heat Highway
homepage	ait.ac.at
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	R. Schmidt

Description
The HeatHighway project investigates supra-regional heat transmission networks, focusing on the use of multiple waste heat sources.

HeatMineDH

Factsheet
title	Low-Grade Renewable and Waste Heat Mapping and Investment Planning for Efficient District Heating
homepage	ait.ac.at
funding	cinea.ec.europa.eu
AIT contact	R. Schmidt

Description
HeatMineDH aims to develop business cases and investment plans for the incorporation of low-grade heat sources into high temperature district heating networks.

HEATROCK

Factsheet
title	Cavern Thermal Energy Storage in Crystalline Rocks
homepage	ait.ac.at
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	A. Dahash

Description
The HEATROCK project aims to advance cavern thermal energy storage technology for urban district heating from TRL 2 to TRL 4, offering a cost-effective, space-efficient, and socially acceptable solution for seasonal heat storage to support Austria’s transition to climate-neutral energy.

HY2HEAT

Factsheet
title	Using electrolysis waste heat in district heating networks
homepage	hytechonomy.com
funding	iea-dhc.org
AIT contact	N. Marx

Description
The aim of HY2HEAT is to analyse the techno-economic synergies of electrolysis waste heat integration in district heating systems (including the assessment of the role and expected volumes), to evaluate the best technical solutions for capturing and upgrading the electrolyser waste heat for utilisation in district heating networks, and to derive a practical guide for district heating operators for the pursuit of the potential and its technical integration.

HyTechonomy

Factsheet
title	Hydrogen Technologies for Sustainable Economies
homepage	hytechonomy.com
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	S. Reuter

Description
The overall scientific vision of the COMET-Project HyTechonomy is to provide the technological and strategic know-how basis for the substitution of the fossil energy carriers by renewable hydrogen.

INTERSTORES

Factsheet
title	International Innovation Network for the Development of Cost- and Environmentally Efficient Seasonal Thermal Energy Storages
homepage	interstores.eu
funding	European Union, UK Research and Innovation, Federal Department EAER (Swiss Confederation)
AIT contact	A. Dahash

Description
INTERSTORES aims to demonstrate and validate two scalable seasonal thermal energy storage technologies to enhance the reliability, cost-effectiveness, and market readiness of renewable-based energy systems across Europe through full-scale implementation and interdisciplinary collaboration.

KNOWING

Factsheet
title	KNOWING
homepage	knowing-climate.eu
funding	commission.europa.eu
AIT contact	K. Tovaas

Description
Modelling of electricity and district heating systems for a full decarbonisation path in 2050 for four demonstration regions: Tallinn, Granollers, Naples and South Westphalia.

Marktprämien 2.0

Factsheet
title	Further Development of Market Premium Support Including the Role of PPAs
homepage	ait.ac.at
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	C. Monsberger

Description
The aim of the short study “Marktprämien 2.0” is to promptly develop proposals for a substantive reform and further development of the market premium system recently established in Austria to promote the expansion of renewable energies in the domestic electricity market.

ReNEW

Factsheet
title	Renewable Energy and Hydrogen System Simulation
homepage	hycenta.at or tugraz.at
funding	part of HyCentA / COMET K1 @ ffg.at
AIT contact	D. Suna

Description
The project ReNEW develops an integrated simulation toolchain to enable resilient, cross-sector renewable energy and hydrogen systems, optimizing energy autonomy, infrastructure, and PtX plant strategies based on local needs and techno-economic metrics.

TeKaVe

Factsheet
title	Technologieneutrale Kapazitätsmechanismen für eine Versorgungssichere Energiezukunft
homepage	en.ergie.at
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	S. Strömer

Description
The TeKaVe project investigates whether Austria’s current energy-only market can ensure a secure and decarbonized electricity supply by evaluating capacity mechanisms through regulatory and economic analyses using an innovative modeling approach, combining an agent-based approach with mathematical optimization and decomposition techniques.

transpAIrent.energy

Factsheet
title	Transparent AI Forecasts for Green Energy in Austria
homepage	ait.ac.at
funding	ffg.at
AIT contact	K. Maggauer, S. Strömer

Description
The project transpAIrent.energy aims to develop and publicly share transparent, AI-generated probabilistic forecasts for key energy system variables in Austria, using them to optimize the sustainable and economic operation of flexible renewable energy systems.

Contributing

To contribute a new reference, either

fork the iesopt repository, and directly add to the above list, or
open an issue with the reference details.

See the template below for the structure of a reference.

Template

(references-projects-project-slug-title)=
### Project Slug Title

| **Factsheet** |   |
|---------------|---|
| title         | Full Project Title |
| homepage      | [something.com](https://www.something.com/) |
| funding       | [ffg.at](https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/XXXXXXXXX) |
| AIT contact   | F. Lastname |

**Description**  
Some copy-pasted, or other sort of short description / abstract goes here. A simple prompt like _"Summarize the
following project description in one to two sentences:"_ can help a lot using a LLM of your choice.

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Consider the following:

If possible link to an ait.ac.at subpage for homepage.
Project slug might be HyTechonomy, with the full title being Hydrogen Technologies for Sustainable Economies, then the link target (the thing above the slug title (references-projects-project-slug-title)=) would then be (references-projects-hytechonomy)=.
Replace the funding information accordingly.