Competitive and sustainable integration of RE using product development tools

RE are at a level that allows successful installation from a technical and economical point of view. Handable tools to ensure easy installation including also social factors in the design and decision process have to be established. Seldom the energy supply of a region is a result of a subsequent market driven product development process but mostly it is the result of pure chance. The steps within product development (product definition --> design --> preparation --> production --> sales & service) are at a cursory consideration not really suitable to the implementation of RE because the implementation is not a design process in the common sense of the word. Different tools to ensure the success of a design process in product design (FDA, morphologic box, QFD, FMEA) have been developed by various researchers. As result of the current work it has been tried to adapt these tools to develop strategies for RE implementation. Based on the methods mentioned above different tools to transform the local and regional stakeholder requirements and demands into quantified energy scenarios and into requirement specifications for single projects have been developed The results derived from these methods have applied in different European regions and their success has been compared. Possible criteria for the verification of the methodology are the overall economic benefit of the energy scenario (created by the methodology), the technological and logistical feasibility of the scenario, and the social and legistical compatibility of the scenarios with locally, regional and national constraints. As result of this work a set of tools to ensure a holistic and successful integration of renewable energies in local energy supply based on the QFD method (Quality function deployment), FMEA (Failure mode and error analysis) and FDA (Fuzzy dependency analysis) has been developed. Already at a very early stage important differences for the implementation of RE can be seen and taken into account. The scientific innovation is the integration of different product development and opinion poll methods into the RE scenario (which to our knowledge has never been done before.). The use of the developed methods results in more competitive energy supply.