Heart of the energy transition

H-BRS expands research on power electronics and signs cooperation agreement with Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology

Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the implementation of the energy transition in Germany has picked up speed. Power electronics are of central importance to this because wind and solar energy are being further expanded. Efficient and cost-effective power electronics are required for feeding the electricity produced into the grid. In the energy supply system, they are used for coupling renewable energies, for sector coupling and for connecting storage systems and consumers. The team led by Marco Jung, Professor for Electromobility and Electrical Infrastructure, is working on future-proof power electronics components in several research projects.

Power electronics as a key technology

“We have to understand power electronics as a key technology in the energy transition, because it plays a decisive role not only in wind and solar energy but also in the production of green hydrogen, in electromobility and, in the future, in providing a stable power grid. Even heat pumps only work with the help of power electronics,” Jung explains. In addition to high-performance, resource-saving and cost-effective power converters for photovoltaic systems (GaN-HighPower project), he and his team are researching a battery power converter that can produce an electricity supply in the event of an emergency by using local renewable energies (LEITNING project). The HyLeiT project is researching a cost-effective electrolysis converter with system services for the production of green hydrogen. Electromobility, in which power electronics are used for charging technology and in the engine, will also be increasingly focused on in the future.

In all these projects, H-BRS will be working even more closely with the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy Systems Technology (Fraunhofer IEE) in Kassel in the future:

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