Energy Informatics: A research blog

In the present day, the electric power grid faces an evolutionary step towards the smart grid. The smart grid is defined as the enhancement of the electric power grid with information and communication technology. This sort of digitisation will enable a bidirectional flow of energy and information within the power grid and provide several novel applications and allow to unlock the full potential of renewable energy technologies. To cope with the challenge of digitisation in power grids, key elements of future energy systems have to be explored and furthermore, computational methods have to be developed and refined. The Smart Grids group, located at the University of Klagenfurt, contributes to this challenge by investigating how power meter readings can be analysed to discover solutions to sustainably increase the energy efficiency of energy systems.  "We carried out a measurement campaign in eight selected households to track power consumption of individual electric...

On June 28th, the Workshop  „Mind, Culture and Behaviour in the Digital Age”  took place at the University of Klagenfurt. The emphasis of the workshop was on research perspectives and challenges in times of IoT, Big Data, Digital Humanities, and Digitisation. Researchers from the departments of technical sciences, economic sciences, and humanities were invited to deliver a speech. Christoph Klemenjak gave a talk "o n the importance of data in energy systems". State of the art, work in progress and open research questions were presented. Furthermore, the talk states the research findings of the Smart Grids research group. In particular, the talk presents the following contributions: YoMo Smart Metering Board -  yomo.sourceforge.net Mjölnir Energy Advisor Framework -  mjoelnir.sourceforge.net GREEND Energy Consumption Dataset -  greend.sourceforge.net Without any doubt data will be among the most important resources in future. Exactly as all other resou...