Reinforce
Climate-neutral energy communities, powered by data, optimisation, and real-world validation
The European research project REINFORCE advances climate-neutral, energy-autonomous buildings, districts, and energy communities by maximising the integration of intermittent renewable energy through open-source simulation, stochastic optimisation, and real-world validation in a dedicated Living Lab. By publishing software, data, and methodologies openly and exploring quantum computing for complex decision spaces, REINFORCE enables replicable, scalable solutions for the energy transition.
Reinforce
Quantum Computing and Systemic Decision Spaces in Energy Systems
With the increasing complexity of energy systems, the challenge of coordinating supply, demand and system constraints is no longer primarily technological, but computational and systemic. High shares of renewables, sector coupling, storage, conversion technologies and cross-sector interactions lead to decision spaces that are highly dimensional, non-linear and interdependent. Therefore REINFORCE explores quantum computing–based optimisation approaches for these complex system problems.
Reinforce
Funded by the CET Partnership and the EU-Commission
This research project was funded by CETPartnership, the Clean Energy Transition Partnership under the 2023 joint call for research proposals, co-funded by the European Commission (GA N°101069750) and with the funding organisations FFG (Austria), AEI (Spain) and MUR (Italy).
