NFDI4Energy Information

NFDI4Energy is a research consortium funded in the third and final funding round of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). It wants to support researchers in energy system research with the handling of research data and software. Tracking models together with all data creates a complex software and data management challenge, which needs to be addressed in each research project. Therefore, the handling of research data and software presents a key motivation for NFDI4Energy. To this end, nfdi4energy covers the whole research and transfer cycle of projects in energy system research ranging from (1) identifying relevant competencies for a research field; (2) defining relevant scenarios and experimental setup; (3) integrating models and data, coupling tools and laboratories; (4) extracting results, facilitating public consultation; to (5) identifying research challenges for follow-up activities. We define the following key objectives for nfdi4energy: (1) Establish common research community services for FAIR data, models, and processes in energy system research and motivate its use in the community. (2) Allow traceability, reproducibility, and transparency of results for the scientific community as well as for society, improving the overall FAIRness. (3) Enable and motivate society's involvement to identify and solve relevant research questions. (4) Promote better collaboration and knowledge transfer between scientific research institutes and business partners via FAIR research data management. (5) Simplify identification, integration, and coordination of simulation-based models. (6) Integrate the provided services for energy system research within the wider NFDI ecosystem to improve cross-domain collaboration.