Projects
| Project | Description | Duration | Contact |
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| AEGIS-CH | Advanced geothermal systems have the potential to make the Swiss energy system more resilient by providing decarbonized and decentralized domestic heating and electrical power. This helps… |
2022-2026 | Dr. Peter Burgherr |
| Carbon Dioxide Removal: LCA and MRV | Together with the Sustainability in Business Lab (sus.lab) at ETH Zurich, PSI Technology Assessment evaluates different options for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). The evaluation concerns the… |
2022-2023 | Christian Bauer |
| Life Cycle Assessment of Power-to-X in the Swiss residential sector | Swiss net-zero GHG emission goals require a phase-out of fossil fuels. While the focus in research has often been on a transition of mobility and industry so far, also the residential sector has… |
2022-2023 | Christian Bauer |
| SURE | SURE is part of SFOE’s SWEET programme. Over the next six years, ten research institutions under the project lead of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) will study how Switzerland can ensure its… |
2021-2027 | Dr. Peter Burgherr |
| WISER | The WISER flagship aims to build a digital ecosystem in which public and private stakeholders can contribute and share greenhouse gas (GHG) knowledge. By making different GHG data sources and… |
2021-2025 | Dr. Christopher Lucien Mutel |
| SHELTERED | This project will evaluate the role and perspectives of sustainable chemical transportation fuels within a “net-zero” Swiss energy system. To this end, techno-economic, environmental and social… |
2021-2024 | Christian Bauer |
| TT1000 | This project finalizes development and validation of TwingTec`s first product concept, the TT1000, the world`s first megawatt scale mobile airborne wind energy system together with leading experts… |
2021-2023 | Karin Treyer |
| Energy System Integration (ESI) platform | With the envisaged phase-out of fossil energy carriers and the integration of substantial amounts of intermittent renewables into the Swiss energy supply, the complexity of the energy system will… |
2021-2023 | Christian Bauer |
| SynFuels – PSI-Empa Joint Initiative | Reducing the impact of aviation on climate change requires the development of synthetic, non-fossil aviation fuels, which can substitute today’s kerosene in a cost-efficient and environmentally… |
2021-2023 | Dr. Romain Sacchi |
| CCL | The NFP73 Co-Creation Lab Data Transparency for Sustainable Production will allow for the creation of personalized carbon footprints of Swiss households. The latest ecoinvent and EXIOBASE… |
2021-2023 | Dr. Christopher Lucien Mutel |
| HySPI | The HySPI project is funded by the French agency for Energy and aims to provide a methodological framework to analyze and quantify, in a systemic and prospective manner, the environmental impacts… |
2021-2023 | Dr. Romain Sacchi |
| DemoUp CARMA | DemoUpCARMA is a pilot project lead by ETH Zurich. It aims to demonstrate the implementation and scale-up of two pathways leading to negative CO2 emissions, i.e. a long-term removal of… |
2021-2023 | Dr. Romain Sacchi |
| Global Energy Scenarios (2011 - 2024) | Global energy scenarios with the World Energy Council (WEC) to improve understanding of possible development pathways for the future global energy system |
2021-2022 (WEC 2022 Scenarios) | Dr. Martin Densing |
| PROBOUND | Modelling Framework of Probound project |
2021-2022 | Kannan Ramachandran |
| ROBINSON | ROBINSON’s main mission is to develop an integrated energy system tailored to islands with industrial activities coupling locally available energy sources, electrical and thermal networks, and… |
2020-2024 | Christian Bauer |
| IEA Annex 83: Positive Energy Districts | IEA Annex 83 aims to develop an in-depth definition of Positive Energy Distric (PED) as well as relevant technologies, planning tools, and decision-making process. PSI contributes to subtask C… |
2020-2024 | Xiaojin Zhang |
| Maestro | Markets with storage and risk-aversion |
2020-2024 | Dr. Martin Densing |
| Ariadne | Achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement requires not only a complete transformation of energy supply, but also substantial changes in the way energy is consumed. The project… |
2020-2023 | Christian Bauer |
| POLIZERO | The project POLIZERO is funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), and it aims to analyze efficient policies for promoting the energy transition towards a decarbonised Swiss energy… |
2020 - 2023 | Dr. Evangelos Panos |
| ATELIER | AmsTErdam BiLbao cItizen drivEn smaRt cities (ATELIER) Smart City project aiming to create and replicate Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) within two Lighthouse Cities and six Fellow Cities… |
2019-2024 | Xiaojin Zhang |
| IEA Annex 72: Assessing Life Cycle Related Environmental Impacts Caused by Buildings | In recognition of the significance of energy use in buildings, in 1977 the International Energy Agency has established an Implementing Agreement on Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC). Tasks… |
2019-2022 | Xiaojin Zhang |
| ESI-Platform | Energy Systems Integration Platform - Long term energy scenario analysis with chemical storage option |
2015-2020 | Dr. Tom Kober |
| STEM | Developing Swiss TIMES Energy system Model (STEM) for transition scenario analyses |
2010-2014 | Kannan Ramachandran |
| ROES: ENSI Regulatory Research | HRA methods, EOC quantification, application of simulator data, technical basis for seismic HRA |
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| Risk Analysis and PSA for PSI’s Gantry 2 Proton Therapy Facility | Risk analysis in the design of Gantry 2 |
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| Safety Margin Analysis | Integrated treatment of epistemic and aleatory uncertainties in quantifying risk |
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| ENSI Regulatory Support (HRA “On-Call”) | Review of licensee HRA and topics related to human performance and accident sequence analysis |
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| HRA for Radiotherapy | Development of HRA method for Radiotherapy domain, PhD |