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Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur für die interdisziplinäre Energiesystemforschung

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Motivation

The energy transition and increasing sector coupling pose major challenges for energy system research. In this context, digitalization processes towards cyber-physical energy systems (CPES) facilitate change in many ways and have an equal impact on technical, social and societal issues, but also on the research process itself. Research efforts on CPES rely heavily on model- and (co-)simulation-based approaches. The tracking of data and models represents a complex challenge that must be addressed anew in every research project.

Goals and Approach

Therefore, in a consortium of universities and research institutions listed below, we would like to establish a national research data infrastructure for interdisciplinary energy system research with the following main objectives:

  1. Establishment of a common research infrastructure for FAIR data, models and processes and motivation to use them.
  2. Reproducibility and transparency of results for both the scientific community and society to improve overall FAIRness.
  3. Involving society in identifying and solving relevant research questions
  4. Promote better collaboration and knowledge transfer between research institutions and energy industry through FAIR research data management.
  5. Simplify the integration and coordination of simulation-based models.
  6. Integrate the infrastructure provided for energy system research into the broader nfdi-infrastructure to improve cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Innovation and Perspectives

To achieve these goals, NFDI4Energy focuses on five key services to enable non-discriminatory access to research artifacts:

  1. Competence, to navigate the interdisciplinary research field,
  2. Best practices to obtain information on how to successfully conduct research, including research data management,
  3. Registry to find suitable data and software,
  4. Simulation, to couple existing simulations and thus reuse software artifacts, and
  5. Transparency to involve more stakeholders in all phases of research. With these services, NFDI4Energy aims to develop and operate an open and FAIR research infrastructure in the field of energy system research, supporting a large part of relevant workflows - from data collection to integration into research software and data publications.

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