Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

In a new policy brief, Fraunhofer ISI takes stock of digitization‘s potential from an innovation perspective. It presents selected findings about digitization that have been gathered in numerous research projects at Fraunhofer ISI. The policy brief also addresses the question of what politics, industry and society can do to realize sustainable innovations with the help of digital technologies.

Within Europe, heavy-duty vehicles are responsible for a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector and therefore play a central role in achieving the climate targets set by the EU. The limited range of electric trucks requires a European public fast-charging network to enable the widespread deployment of battery solutions. To investigate the existing electrification potential, we modelled the European road freight flows based on the ETISplus dataset.

At Fraunhofer ISI and Bingen University of Applied Sciences, two scientists have assessed the BHYO process, developed as a pilot plant, from a process engineering viewpoint and in terms of its prospects for energy system integration. The process can produce up to 100 kilograms of hydrogen from one metric ton of biomass waste – whether from landscape maintenance, the contents of organic waste bins, or even municipal sewage sludge.