Research creates knowledge for the benefit of our customers

XRG continuously collaborates with renowned research institutes on challenging research projects in energy technology and the optimization of energy systems.

XRG's expertise in simulations and modeling of energy-related systems is particularly in demand in research when it comes to numerically complex topics with many parameters. We get to the bottom of these questions, expand our know-how, and develop methods and products that drive the project forward.

OpenSCALING

Open standards for SCALable virtual engineerING and operation
The European Climate Law sets the target of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and for Europe to become climate-neutral by 2050. To meet these ambitious goals open standards and established modelling and simulation tools need be enhanced to better support large-scale systems and distributed controllers optimized to minimize energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

Several industrial demonstrators will showcase how the OpenSCALING innovations are applied in the domains of

energy,

buildings,

aviation,

and automotive

through green hydrogen production, more efficient heat pumps, fuel cell propulsion and electrified vehicles.

Significant improvements are expected in terms of managing magnitudes larger system models in the virtual engineering process using the open standards Modelica, FMI, eFMI and SSP. This includes:

reduction of compilation and simulation times,

speed-up of simulations by means of machine learning surrogate models,

and the tool support of traceable and credible modeling and simulation processes.

PARTNER

The ITEA4 project is conducted in close cooperation of european partners from six countries.

Research Funding

The research project OpenSCALING is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (number 01IS23062K) and XRG participates from April 2025 to December 2026.
EVEREST

Energy-efficient VEhicle Range Enhancement through Smart Thermal design and user-centric solutions

The objective of EVEREST is to develop and demonstrate innovative, user-centric, and cost-effective thermal and
energy management solutions for battery-electric light duty vehicles (LDVs) and light commercial vehicles (LCVs)
that maintain driving range under extreme weather conditions while accounting for personalised thresholds of thermal
comfort. This includes identifying and validating user requirements and acceptance thresholds, reducing climate related range loss by at least 30% compared to the state of the art, and achieving a 10% improvement in overall energy demand through intelligent, predictive- and AI-based control strategies integrated with future smart city standards.

Technical solutions are developed with virtual demonstrators (simulation models), implemented in real-world vehicle demonstrators, and evaluated on test rigs.

PARTNER

The Horizon project is being carried out in close cooperation with 12 European partners from research and industry and is funded by the European Union under the project reference HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D5-05.