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On 16-17 September 2022, the PATHFNDR team from the Energy Science Center presented a challenge at the Energy Data Hackdays at the Technopark Aargau in Brugg. The challenge was to develop a decision-making tool for policy-makers to explore and compare multiple energy scenarios.  

On 14-15 September 2022, the PATHFNDR research team, industry partners, and policy-makers discussed the challenges and opportunities of four topics: energy independence, hydrogen, system flexibility, and sector coupling.

Ingmar Schlecht (Principal Investigator in the PATHFNDR consortium) spoke on SRF's news program "10vor10" on September 1, 2022 about how financial incentives for private individuals could help reduce energy consumption. The interview builds on the concept of "supplier-financed energy savings bonuses”, which is also explained in a Handelsblatt article (in German) by Silvana Tiedemann, Lion Hirth and Axel Ockenfels.

The PATHFNDR team presented to the review panel the first results after one year of work and the outlook for the coming year. The discussion focused on energy scenarios and the technologies needed to enable flexibility and sector integration. The meeting ended with a tour of the NEST, move and Ehub demonstrators at Empa. We thank the review panel and BFE SWEET office for their valuable feedback! A big thank you also to Empa for hosting the meeting!

The Energy Science Center (ESC) is very pleased to welcome Arijit Upadhyay as new member of the ESC team. Arijit joined the existing team of the Nexus-​e research project in July 2022.