Ludwig Hülk

In this presentation, we will explore the role of Open Science in energy system research and how it can promote participatory design in social transformation processes. The ongoing climate crisis calls for an urgent and comprehensive transformation of energy systems. We need a rapid decarbonisation to achieve a completely regenerative, sustainable, and affordable energy system. Science, society, and politics play a critical role in this transformation, but how do they work together? How can scientific research become more inclusive and transdisciplinary and also improve the quality of science? In this presentation, we will explore the role of Open Science in energy system research and how it can promote participatory design in social transformation processes.

We will present the developed collaborative open-science ecosystem, in particular the Open Energy Modelling Framework (oemof), a software that optimizes sector-coupled energy systems, the Open Energy Platform (OEP), a toolbox and community database for open and FAIR data, and the Open Energy Ontology (OEO), a domain ontology for the energy system context. We will demonstrate how these open and collaboratively developed tools can be used to develop stakeholder empowerment tools and interactive web tools that can be used on the WAM platform.

We will also address important questions about scientific research, such as who we research for and who uses our tools. We will explore the opportunities and hurdles of Open Science in energy system research and show how these tools can support a participatory, global energy system transformation.