Institut für neue Energie-Systeme (InES)

In the face of global climate change and increasing resource scarcity, ensuring a secure and efficient energy supply through renewable energy sources is one of the key challenges of our time. The environmentally friendly and cost-effective provision of renewable energy in the form of heat, electricity and fuel, its efficient use in buildings, industrial and commercial applications and for transport, as well as its intelligent system integration, raise numerous technological and economic issues. Against this backdrop, at the Institute for New Energy Systems (InES), six professors, together with thirty research assistants and PhD students, are engaged in applied energy research focusing on pioneering technologies in the field of renewable energy. Alongside the practical training of students, applied research forms the focus of the institute’s activities.

In addition to the industrial research, publicly funded research projects with industrial involvement and project-based support by appropriate funding institutions within the energy and environmental technology are of central importance. Further, the Institute for New Energy Systems (InES) is involved in several national and international research networks, such as the Solar Heating and Cooling Programme of the International Energy Agency. Institute scientists are also represented in numerous national and international committees and advisory boards.

Particular attention will be given at InES on the education and training of young scientists, so that  a number of research projects are connected to the promotion or the master's degree of a project team member. Here, several doctoral research and research-related Master's theses have already been successfully completed. Secondly, students from all study courses of the Technical University of Ingolstadt and from national and international partner universities are actively involved in the research projects.
From the research activities of InES more than 120 scientific publications and lectures so far resulted in English and German.

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