Recent years have shown that the energy transition, as the central social challenge of our time, is taking place in an environment of increasingly disruptive events that are having a negative impact on the transformation processes and security of supply in Germany. It is therefore of paramount importance to provide decision makers in Germany from politics, business, science, and society with insights into the effects of disruptive events on the energy transition and security of supply in the short term, both proactively and reactively.

This is the aim of the Helmholtz Platform for the Design of Robust Energy Systems and Raw Material Supply (RESUR), which is being developed in close collaboration with the Helmholtz Energy System Design (ESD) program.

RESUR is divided into six work packages (WPs). ITAS is leading WP 4 “Socio-technical analysis and evaluation of options for action by societal groups” together with FZJ.

The objective of ITAS’s work in WP 4 is a comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the options for action by society, industry, and politics in order to mitigate the possible negative effects of disruptive events.

The starting point is the identification and analysis of the facets of energy and raw material supply security, among others with the help of a socio-technical model to be further developed. The socio-technical model will map the identified facets and their interactions. The model approach allows to consistently consider different aspects such as the stability of the power grid and fairness in the distribution of benefits and burdens and to map possible future developments.

Relevant aspects of energy and resource supply security will be transferred into a multi-criteria evaluation scheme to provide valid decision support for acting upon extreme events and for a successful transformation of the energy system. In order to identify options for society and politics, the multi-criteria evaluation scheme will include the relevant evaluation criteria and indicators as well as their stakeholder-based validation and weighting. The work will be carried out in close coordination with the other work packages, which will largely provide the basis for the quantification of the criteria. The evaluation scheme will be designed flexibly to consider further developments of the model by the partners. Conversely, it must be examined how identified evaluation criteria can be integrated into the models in perspective.

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