An increasing demand and the integration of renewable energies pose serious challenges for our power system. If we don’t make our energy system more efficient today – ie by integrating intelligent control systems – we will have to face a costly network expansion in a few years. The new ITA-Dossier (available only in German) talks about possible solutions and options for the future and presents the conclusions of the ITA-project “Smart Response”.

The ITA-Dossiers present the lates findings and conclusions of ITA-projects. On only two pages, they offer interdisciplinary research results to interested readers, political decision-makers and the media. Two earlier Dossiers dealt with the effects of the Web 2.0 on science and technology controversies.