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The manufacturing industry is responsible for a significant share of global energy consumption and CO₂ emissions. The switch to renewable energies and the increase in energy efficiency to achieve the European climate protection goals pose great challenges for domestic industry. Nevertheless, the question for the transformation of the industrial energy system is no longer “if”, but “how” it can succeed.

Over the past 3 years, in the project Clean Energy for Tourism (CE4T), a Living Lab has been working closely with cable cars from the Pinzgau/Salzburg region. The aim of the project is to identify flexible loads in ski resorts and to develop optimisation algorithms and tools that will identify optimal solutions on the following three levels:

NEFI_Number of the Month June is 13. I the framework of the NEFI_Lab innovation process we are following – 13 Open Cycles on the NEFI innovation fields. In our Open Cycles, we discuss topics related to our technological and systemic NEFI innovation fields with you.

We are hereby opening a new interview series in which we introduce you to people who are active within the NEFI community and are working on the decarbonization of the industry.

The project Heat Highway was officially launched with a kick-off in mid-March. Under the consortium leadership of the Energieinstitut of Johannes Kepler University Linz 17 partners from industry and research are working on the transformation of the Austrian energy system.