Welcome to the Department for Resilient Energy Systems

Information about the Department for Resilient Energy Systems

Research Focus

Research interests and activities of the Working Group are as follow:

In the Industrial Ecology, among other works for material flow management - in particular the substance flow analysis of critical metals (with a focus on identifying and avoiding dissipative losses) for hazardous substance prevention or substitution, as well as opportunities and risks of new technologies' (such as nanotechnology and synthetic biology. ) performed.
In the implementation of life cycle assessments and material flow analysis with the software GaBi and Umberto. Since May 2011, the Department of Umberto Competence Center.
In the development of sustainability strategies in cooperation with companies, where the main focus is on a better understanding of innovation processes.
In the climate adaptation. The focus here is the resilient energy supply in the Metropolitan Region Bremen-Oldenburg.
In the development of methods for technology evaluation, particularly for prospective and in-process technology evaluation. One approach is here, for example the extension of the LCA method to entropy balances.
In the prospective and preventive-oriented technology design.

The activities of the department therefore include both basic research and application-oriented projects.

On the following pages you will find a list of

current research projects as well as the already
completed research projects.

Philipp Eppe took part in a Workshop „Fantastic Models and How to Make Them: A Beginner's Guide to CaterFly“ in Freiburg.

Philipp Eppe was a co-organizer and co-presenter of a workshop “Fantastic Models and How to Make Them: A Beginner’s Guide to CaterFly”. The workshop was part of the ABM4Energy Conference on Agent-Based Modeling for Energy Economics and Energy Policy that was held in Freiburg (Germany) on March 21-22, 2024. The workshop’s goal was to bring together early-stage researchers who work at the intersection of agent-based modelling and behavioural science, with the energy transition as their main topic of interest. During two interactive exercises workshop participants gained insights into the impact of slight variations in behavioural rules of agents and into the challenges regarding the interface of ABM and behavioral science. Participants also shared their own approaches in integrating behavioural science in agent-based modelling and tried to find interconnections with other participants’ research.