SimBench Sector

SimBench Sector - a simulation database for the uniform comparison of innovative solutions in the field of grid analysis, grid planning and grid operation management.

SimBench Sector is a joint project in the 7th Energy Research Programme of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. Based on the results of the SimBench research project, the SimBench Sector aims to develop a data set that enables the realistic modelling of German electricity, gas and heating networks. Innovative use cases in the area of neighbourhood development, the redesign of gas networks for hydrogen or even cross-sector simulations make the development of gas and heating network components as part of a benchmark dataset sensible and necessary. In particular, future studies on coupled infrastructures as part of the energy transition and its digitalisation require consistent test grids in all sectors.

The SimBench sector is intended to provide the research landscape with a consistent data set as open data for a comprehensive description of the grid-bound German energy supply. In addition to the high spatial and temporal resolution, the innovation lies in the technically detailed modelling of the operating resources in today's grids, but also in the modelling of innovative, future operating resources.

The Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg is particularly responsible for providing data relating to the gas grid and its future developments. Electrolyser and compressor locations are considered, as well as the potential for converting existing pipelines to hydrogen.