Publication of the junior research group Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency in "Renewable Energy".
Publications produced by Prof. Muche's EEEE4 (Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency) junior research group up to 2015 were published in the journal "Renewable Energy" after a peer-reviewed process lasting several months. According to the latest ranking data from SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), "Renewable Energy" belongs to the 1st quantile of international journals in the field and has a high 5-year impact factor of 4.452, which measures the annual citation frequency of the publications. This provides the prerequisites for international visibility of the research results.
The publication "Profitability of participation in control reserve market for biomass-fueled combined heat and power plants" uses an optimization model and includes a heat storage facility to investigate whether it is possible to economically market a biomass power plant on the control energy market(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148115305553). The publication "Economically optimal configuration of onshore horizontal axis wind turbines" uses technical and economic modelling to analyze whether there is an economically optimal height for wind turbines, even if greater heights could be technically possible(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148116300052).
A further publication on the integration of service life reduction through more frequent start-stop cycles in the power plant deployment planning of pumped storage power plants is currently in the review process. More frequent start-stop cycles occur when - as in the German energy system - strongly fluctuating solar and wind power generation has to be compensated for by adjusting the operation of hydro and thermal power plants.
Due to the positive evaluations, the partial results will also be incorporated into Prof. Muche's further research and publication activities. One of the aims is to develop a comprehensive optimization model for the investment planning of energy systems based on renewable energies. As an extension to standard investment planning models, the approach is based on power plant deployment planning on an hourly basis and thus combines short and long-term planning processes.
Partial results of the publications have also been integrated into courses and contribute to combining research and teaching.
Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Thomas Muche
Faculty of Business Administration and Engineering Management
Email: t.muche@hszg.de