News
07.11.2018
ET-CC workshop
Today, the ET-CC workshop on „Latest topics on connections between weather and climate, and renewable energy systems” has been successfully conducted. Thirty participants with various backgrounds, such as research institutions, industry, public institutions, met to discuss latest topics that connect meteorology and energy economics. In lively discussions, the participants defined several important research problems that must be tackled in the future to improve energy forecasts and long term investments.
10.10.2018
New Publication
Vehrs, H.-P. and Küchler, N.: Lehren im interdisziplinären Team: das Team als Lerngegenstand, Neues Handbuch Hochschullehre - DUZ Medienhaus, accepted, October 2018.
09.10.2018
ET-CC extended
The ET-CC project has been extended until the end of 2019.
New Publication
Küchler, N., S. Kneifel, P. Kollias and U. Löhnert: Revisiting liquid water content retrievals in warm stratified clouds: The modified Frisch. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079845
21.02.2018
New Publication
Frank, C. W., S. Wahl, J. D. Keller, B. Pospichal, A. Hense, and S. Crewell, 2018: A novel data set for solar energy applications based on high resolution reanalysis, Solar Energy, Elsevir. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2018.02.012
27.11.2017
New publications
Two articles have been published:
- Henckes, P., A. Knaut, F. Obermüller, and C. Frank, 2018: The benefit of long-term high resolution wind data for electricity system analysis, Energy Journal, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.10.049.
- Küchler, N., S. Kneifel, U. Löhnert, P. Kollias, H. Czekala, and T. Rose, 2017: A W-band radar-radiometer system for accurate and continuous monitoring of clouds and precipitation, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0019.1.
01.11.2017
ET-CC extended
The ET-CC project has been extended until the end of 2018.
01.12.2016
New publications
Two articles have been published in the conference proceedings of the 15th Wind Integration Workshop 2016, Vienna.
Twenty Years of European Wind Power Production - Balancing Effects in Europe with a Focus on Germany, Philipp Henckes, Andreas Knaut, Frank Obermüller
The capacity value in systems with multiple regions and technologies, Simeon Hagspiel, Andreas Knaut, Jakob Peter
09.11.2016
Workshop “Transition to power systems with weather-dependent generation”
The workshop “Transition to power systems with weather-dependent generation” was held on November 7 and 8, 2016 in Cologne, Germany, at the Energiewirtschaftliches Institut (EWI).
It was a joint effort of the University of Cologne Emerging Group on Energy Transition and Climate Change and the University of Cologne Forum Energy.
Initially, the scientific research performed within the ET-CC project and the University of Cologne Forum Energy has been presented. Subsequently, the workshop consisted in oral presentations (~20 minutes) with a main focus on high-resolution meteorology and power system economics. Finally, the opportunity of future collaborations has been discussed.
The complete agenda can be downloaded here.
19.09.2016
First announcement: Workshop “Transition to power systems with weather-dependent generation” 07-08.11.2016
In the framework of the UoC Emerging Group on Energy Transition and Climate Change and the UoC Forum Energy.
Further information will follow.
28.06.2016
ET-CC far up north: Ny Alesund
ET-CC member Nils Küchler set up a 94 GHz cloud radar in Ny Alesund:
"It transmits and receives electro-magnetic radiation, and is used to derive cloud properties. The transmitted radiation is backscattered by cloud particles, whose attributes (size and vertical velocity) determine the properties of the backscatter signal (intensity and frequency). Hence, the received signal contains information on the cloud."
Kick-off Event: Energy Transition & Climate Change (ET-CC)
EWI Summer course for PhD students: Stochastic Optimization
The Institute of Energy Economics (EWI) will organize a summer course for PhD students this September (21. - 25.09.15) on the topic of 'Stochastic Optimazation with Applications to Electricity Systems with Intermittent Wind and Solar Power'. For more information see: Syllabus
HITEC Day on 'Energy Meteorology'
The Graduate School Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Energy and Climate Research (HITEC) invites for their 'Day on Energy Meteorology'. For more informations see: Announcement. For the detailed schedule see: Program.