Final workshop in the “Urban-Rural Energy” project

How can the energy transition succeed locally in regions that are interconnected but whose conditions – such as people, goods, services, money, and environmental services – vary greatly? The joint project Urban-Rural Energy focused precisely on this urban-rural nexus, results will be presented in this final workshop.

In the project, researchers developed methods and tools that enable robust, regionally integrated, and sector-coupled energy transition scenarios for the urban-rural nexus to be calculated and appropriately prepared. The aim is to accelerate the energy transition. Sarah Berendes and Jonathan Amme from the Research Unit Transformation of Energysystems will present the results of the project on behalf of RLI.

This is what the final workshop is about:

• Case studies from the four model communities of Erkner, Rüdersdorf, Grünheide, Strausberg in Oderlandspree, and Ingolstadt will be presented.

• Specifically, the focus will be on the further development of methods for the development and application of robust energy system models, including modeling to generate alternatives, sensitivity analyses, warm starting).

• In addition, the project partners will present the stakeholder tool and the scenario explorer: a digital tool for robust energy system modeling and estimation of municipal value creation in an urban-rural context.

The results presented in this final workshop are particularly interesting for municipal actors from administration and planning associations, energy agencies, and modelers in this specific field.

Anyone interested can register for the event at this link.

More information about the project is available on the Urban-Rural-Energy project page.