Energy Park

In the future, increasing recourse to renewable sources will be necessary for supplying electric power and thermal energy.

Besides the necessary increase in the efficiency of "consuming" processes and facilities, especially the combination of different forms of energy will be required as a substitute for the conventional energy supply structure. The purpose of the project, "Demonstration Plant for Decentralised Renewable Energy Supply Systems"(www.dresy.de), is to demonstrate and investigate the problems involved in supplying energy from renewable sources (wind turbines, hydropower plants, photovoltaic cells, solar collectors, biogenic fuels) to a building complex (CUTEC-Institut). By way of departure from other projects, which likewise combine various renewable forms of energy, special emphasis is placed on the dynamic adaptation of power generation und power consumption in this long-term project.

The results are useful for further developing and designing an energy supply system with larger contributions from renewable energy sources.

The project, Energiepark Clausthal, poses a special challenge to all concerned: Theoretical considerations and conceptual efforts are directly implemented in practice. Besides CUTEC's own departments, recourse is therefore made to the services and experience of external specialists from two institutes at the Technical University of Clausthal (IEE, IEVB)1 as well as two supply companies (Stadtwerke Clausthal-Zellerfeld GmbH, Avacon AG). These companies apply their own practical experience to the project, on the one hand, and can profit from the results of the project, on the other hand.

On the basis of the experience and results obtained to date, further project activities are in progress for developing a decentralised energy supply system and utilising renewable energy sources. Moreover, efforts are currently under way to link the energy park with a multimedia project at the Technical University of Clausthal. Information on the project, Energiepark Clausthal, is also available from the separate homepage.

A summary of the project can be downloaded there.

EparkSummary.pdf  (1.7 MB)

1 IEE: Institut für Eletrische Energietechnik, Prof. Dr.-Ing. H.-P. Beck IEVB: Institut für Energieverfahrenstechnik und Brennstofftechnik, Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Scholz.