Eifer - European Institute for Energy Research

created in september 2001, as a european economic interest grouping between edf - electricité de france and kit - karlsruhe institute of technology and located in karlsruhe, eifer - european institute for energy research, is employing around 110 staff members of different nationalities, with multidisciplinary skills. together with international research entities, we aim at creating values for our two members and their respective partners: cities, local communities, and industries. we focus on three strategic priorities to tackle the challenge of the energy transition: - contribution to sustainable city engineering through integrated approaches, models and tools for the multi-sectorial analysis of cities and territories, for strategic planning - development of local energy concepts and solutions from technology road-maps and local resources analysis towards support to operational projects - analysis of the trends and interactions within energy systems through simulation at different sca