Potential of open source hardware for decentralized energy supply with renewable energies in the socio-ecological transformation

How can the energy transition be democratized?

What roles do technical expertise, openness—not only of the process but also of the technology itself—and the quality of human-technology relationships play in the social sustainability of energy transition technologies? The PODEST project will address these questions over the next three years. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy is funding PODEST with €1.3 million for research and development of open source hardware for decentralized energy supply. The Technical University of Berlin, the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, and the Open Knowledge Foundation are participating in the project. It has received start-up funding from the CCC under the project title “Open Battery Platform” and has developed an initial prototype.

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