What role can Denmark play in the European energy system? Which new energy technologies should we invest in? How should established technologies such as wind energy be developed? And how do we make ourselves resilient to geopolitics, resource dependency and unstable supply chains?
These are the kinds of questions that Professor Marie Münster and her new section, Energy System Modelling & Impact Assessment at DTU Wind, aim to answer. And this requires a more far-reaching analysis of the energy system than we have traditionally undertaken, says Marie Münster:
"Whereas we have primarily focused on fossil CO2 emissions and raw costs, we must now take a broader view of both economic and environmental impacts, resource and material consumption, social conditions and security of supply. The aim is to provide an even better basis for making sound and future-proof decisions," she says.
"At the same time, we will strengthen energy system modelling by combining the comprehensive modelling framework we have developed over a number of years at DTU Management with the technology- and resource-oriented tools in which DTU Wind is a world leader. The collaboration will put DTU as a whole in an even better position to gain a deeper understanding of how the energy system of the future should be designed," says Marie Münster.
