This blog intends to serve as a structure where you can access and check all the materials and information related to the module.
We will dive into the sustainability assessment of RE implementation using one concrete example as framing. We use the mobility transition (in Germany) as a framing topic for three main reasons:
- it is a “hot-topic” within the energy transition
- it includes links to very different aspects of technology implementation: technological aspects such as electric or hydrogen vehicles or synthetic fuels, but also social aspects such as mobility demands and mobility access and scenarios for estimating them, environmental aspects such as LCA analysis of different components and processes, or economic aspects related to mobility access and technology pushes
- for Germany (or Europe) there are data available for doing reasonable analysis.
- PS: those of you who did the Energy Systems lecture in the winter know how much the transport sector shapes final energy demands in the global north and how paramount it is likely to be for mobility developments in the global south.
For each week you find a different post (viewed as a box in the general blog page). There you will find a brief introduction on what topics we will discuss, the link to the videos (if available) and/or the slides for the presentations.
Here you can see the Introductory Slides for the course structure and these are the slides as introduction and motivation to the mobility topic from the first week of the course.
Weekly structure
Each week different content, resources and links will be available. To follow the structure for the course, please check the introductory slides (linked above). Here I leave you a screenshot so that you can see what is coming next and what to check (i.e. which box within this blog) for each week at a glimpse:
Your project
Guidelines for your reports
Please follow the guidelines for writing the reports for preparing your final exam reports.
Ideas and inspiration: previous years topics
To give you a glimpse on possible topics you can work out in this course, here comes an “inspiration” list with projects that were done within this module by previous students:
- MCDM, EV & FCV for Keeping Mobility Demand
- Analysis of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles with MCDM
- EV charging system in Germany: a MCDM evaluation
- LCA of different battery types
- Energy scenarios for the decarbonization of the transport sector in Jordan (or somewhere else)
- MCDM Analysis –Marine Fuel Alternatives
- Transformation in shipping transport – sustainable fuel alternatives
- Scenarios for assessing the Sustainability of Imported Green Hydrogen from Chile to Germany
Additional data and insights from intro lecture
Source: EnergyEfficiency2022.pdf (windows.net)
The figure shows the improvement in the energy efficiency of industry (in terms of the improvement of its energy intensity – for 2021 the improvement reached about 2.5%). Be aware that the final energy intensity is a relative measure and thus it only tells that industrial energy efficiency has improved, but not that the absolute amount of energy throughput is reduced (as this depends on the total amount of production, as we discussed in the lecture)
Here you can find additional insight on the role of freitght transport, high-income countries and aviation in the overall transport emisisons globally: Transport – Our World in Data