Terms of reference

• Exchange of experience
• Technical development, state of the art
• Technology comparison of fuel cells, micro gas turbines, conventional CHP up to 1 MW and stirling engines
• Possibilities as well as the consequences of a "Virtual Power Plant"
• Definition "What is Distributed Generation"

Service

• Organisation of workshops

Research

• Biomass-pellets in the Power Plant Sector - A Market Analysis
• Energy-economic Overall Concept 2030 ( Study 2030 )
• Integration of Renewables into German Energy Supply in the Period 2015 to 2020 ( Dena-Grid Study II )
• Energy-Economical Planning for Grid Integartion of Wind Energy in Germany ahore and off-shore by the Year2020
• HY SOCIETY: Promoting a Hydrogen-based Society in Europe
• ECOSTAR : European Concentrated Solar Thermal Roadmap
• New Burner Systems for Decentralised Utilisation of Low-calorific Gases in Micro Gas Turbines (MGT)