Resource-efficient energy system solutions for airports with high share of electric aviation

The energy transition means increased electrification of our society in general, including aviation.

This means higher electricity demand and a need to develop airports as sustainable local energy systems with the prerequisites for more electrified aviation and a well-functioning interaction with the overall energy system. Thus, it is important to create tools for simulation/evaluation of infrastructure solutions.

In this project, concepts and submodules will be developed as a first version of such a tool, based on a mapping of today's electricity demand, and at a future high degree of electrification.

The airport energy system simulation environment will be initialized looking at the electric grid, renewable electricity production, energy storage, control strategies and flexibility solutions for different loads.

These building blocks enable analysis of more electric aviation using renewable energy, resource efficiently, strategically and in symbiosis with the rest of the energy system