Energy research
The EU aims to be climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this, CO2 emissions are to be reduced by 55 percent by 2030 compared to 1990. At the same time, it is necessary to secure the power supply and keep the industry competitive. Jülich's research is aimed at an energy system based on renewable energies that contributes to limit climate change. In Jülich, energy conversion and storage, energy transport and reconversion at the consumer are researched in a multidisciplinary manner. The scope of the work ranges from the fundamentals to questions of the energy system. It also includes the interaction between energy systems, air quality and climate.
The FZJ is broadly positioned here - one of the key roles is played by hydrogen, from the development of materials for electrolysis plants, fuel cells and solar modules to the investigation of electrochemical processes and the transport, storage and use of hydrogen.
Batteries are also indispensable as energy storage devices. Jülich is equally pursuing research into technologies for storing surplus electricity in energy-rich chemicals ("power-to-X"), for example for use as fuel.
ZEA-1 substantially contributes as a cross-sectional role of different disciplines and as an integrator of technologies in the development of innovative research devices, instruments in the form of prototypes as well as demonstration facilities. The development of innovative research devices, instruments in the form of prototypes as well as demonstration facilities and the development of joining materials and processes in material development show the outstanding results. The system idea and "value engineering" play a fundamental role in this.
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