open_plan

Project period

January 2020 until December 2022

Project management

DGS - LV Berlin Brandenburg e.V.

Funding organisations

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)

Project description

A cross-sector, open planning tool is to be developed as part of the open_plan project. This is to be used for the optimised planning of energy cells for the (partial) supply of the electricity and heat requirements of neighbourhoods, commercial buildings and industry in Germany. As active subsystems, energy cells can facilitate the integration of renewable energies and significantly reduce grid expansion, as they can be planned and controlled with each other. The tool will close the gap to other inadequate software solutions through the functionality of multi-objective optimisation, modifiability, detailed documentation and an easy-to-use interface design. A consolidation of existing approaches and an intensive validation phase are planned.

The project will follow the promising open-science approach and make all data, methods and programme code available under a suitable open licence. This will ensure compliance with scientific standards, as only results generated with open and citable tools and data can be reproduced and reproduced in the field of software-based research.

The aim of the DGS is to validate the results from software programming using real data and to discuss suitable pilot projects for this purpose. This promotes the exchange between science and practical application and expands the network of stakeholders. Open_plan will also supplement and improve the planning tools already available at the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) to answer specific research questions in other projects relating to the decentralisation of the energy transition and the cellular approach. Close collaboration within the consortium and with a wide range of stakeholders and users will expand the research network, opening up a broad field of new, important and explicitly application-oriented research questions. The open_plan project complements other previous RLI open-science research projects, such as. open_eGO (OpenEnergyPlatform),  open_FRED (feed-in time series on OpenEnergyPlatform) and enables the comparison, validation and improvement of energy system modelling.

The open_plan project is being funded as part of the BMWI's 7th Energy Research Programme „Innovation for the Energy Transition“ in the „Technology-oriented System Analysis“ funding area.