The rate at which today`s world changes requires a rethink. We must not be content with following the change, we think we need to shape it ourselves in the future. But what will a world that we ourselves together with the next generation of engineers want to actively shape look like? It definitely is a world full of challenges that also offer great opportunities. For people in general, for companies and for the educational landscape. In the vision of the All Electric Society a complete and sustainable energy turnaround is already on the horizon. The All Electric Society is a society whose whole energy cycle is based on electricity generated entirely from renewable sources. However, the final energy used is not always electricity. Security of supply and a comprehensive coupling of the electricity, heating (and cooling), transport, infrastructure and industrial sectors will only become reality if electrical energy is also used as the basis for the production of synthetic fuels, so called e-fuels (power to x).

The key to the All Electric Society lies in the options for implementing it economically. For an equivalent momentum to pick up, solutions must be as economical and cost efficient as possible. This can be achieved by means of energy efficiency and coupling and balancing all energy consumers, generators and potential storage options in the best way possible (and at this point we would move on to applications and technologies that we already have for this purpose).

In our upcoming seminars, we want to look into the future with the concept of the All Electric Society and then in a second step address the question: which technological solutions are already available today for the realization of this future. As a third important point we want to conclude by explaining the educational relevance and the implications for technical teaching which, in our view, arise from this concept.