The development of a sustainable energy system is not feasible without digitalisation. Digitalisation has great potential for realising a cost- and energy-efficient and secure energy supply and thus for making a critical contribution to achieving climate targets. However, many relevant technologies and approaches are still largely new and untested for the energy domain, which results in technical challenges such as reliability, observability, availability and explainability as well as social challenges such as the greater integration of decentralised players, functioning interaction and their interaction with technologies.

The Platform Trustworthy Digitalisation of Safety-Critical Energy Systems was applied for by the Technische Universität Braunschweig, the Technische Universität Clausthal, the Leibniz Universität Hannover, the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, together with the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt - Institut für Vernetzte Energiesysteme, the OFFIS - Institut für Informatik e.V. and the Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI) e. V. at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

The spokesperson location is the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. The team of spokespersons consists of Prof Dr Astrid Nieße and Prof Dr Sebastian Lehnhoff (both Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, OFFIS e.V.). The coordinator is Dr Sven Rosinger (OFFIS e.V.)