Achieving transparency and robustness of regional energy scenarios by using morphological fields in inter- and transdisciplinary project groups

In order to analyse long-term viable solutions for future energy supply, transparent and robust energy scenarios are needed. These require including diverse expertise as well as thoroughly analysing the option space and considering stakeholders’ interests. We propose that using Morphological Fields in inter- and transdisciplinary project groups is appropriate and show how this can be translated into practice for the development of regional scenarios. Besides the technical tools developed to create scenarios, interactively visualise assumptions and allow for scenario variations, a combination of morphological fields is presented that includes the basic scenario definition with respect to main sustainability criteria together with the basic assumptions for each respective technology. The first usage of the methodology in the project EnAHRgie illustrates its applicability in practice. •Morphological Analysis as a systematic approach for developing energy scenarios.•Developing scenarios with inter- and transdisciplinary project groups.•Interactive visualisation of assumptions, restrictions and framework conditions of scenarios.•Morphological fields as interface for scenario variation.