Proceedings of the 8th DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics

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Authors: Dominik Engel and Andreas Unterweger

P6V2G: a privacy-preserving V2G scheme for two-way payments and reputation

The number of electric vehicles (EVs) is steadily growing. This provides a promising opportunity for balancing the smart grid of the future, because vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems can utilize the batteries of p...

Authors: Rebecca Schwerdt, Matthias Nagel, Valerie Fetzer, Tobias Gräf and Andy Rupp

Clustering time series applied to energy markets

In Germany and many other countries the energy market has been subject to significant changes. Instead of only a few large-scale producers that serve aggregated consumers, a shift towards regenerative energy s...

Authors: Cornelia Krome, Jan Höft and Volker Sander

State-based load profile generation for modeling energetic flexibility

Communicating the energetic flexibility of distributed energy resources (DERs) is a key requirement for enabling explicit and targeted requests to steer their behavior. The approach presented in this paper all...

Authors: Kevin Förderer and Hartmut Schmeck

Protecting the grid topology and user consumption patterns during state estimation in smart grids based on data obfuscation

Smart grids promise a more reliable, efficient, economically viable, and environment-friendly electricity infrastructure for the future. State estimation in smart grids plays a pivotal role in system monitorin...

Authors: Lakshminarayanan Nandakumar, Gamze Tillem, Zekeriya Erkin and Tamas Keviczky

Towards modular composition of agent-based voltage control concepts

In the last years, diverse agent-based concepts for voltage control in distribution grids were presented in literature. All these approaches are developed manually. Up to now, no tailoring approach has been pr...

Authors: Thomas Wolgast and Astrid Nieße

Distributed multi-objective scheduling of power consumption for smart buildings

Load management of electrical devices in residential buildings can be applied with different goals in the power grid, such as the cost optimization regarding variable electricity prices, peak load reduction or...

Authors: Marvin Nebel-Wenner, Christian Reinhold, Farina Wille, Astrid Nieße and Michael Sonnenschein

Deriving policies from connection codes to ensure ongoing voltage stability

The management and transmission networks is becoming increasingly complex due to the proliferation of renewables-based distributed energy resources (DER). Existing control systems for DER are based on static s...

Authors: David Ryan, Miguel Ponce De Leon, Niall Grant, Bernard Butler, Steffen Vogel, Markus Mirz and Pádraig Lyons

Towards domain-specific surrogate models for smart grid co-simulation

Surrogate models are used to reduce the computational effort required to simulate complex systems. The power grid can be considered as such a complex system with a large number of interdependent inputs. With a...

Authors: Stephan Balduin, Martin Tröschel and Sebastian Lehnhoff

Architectural and functional classification of smart grid solutions

Historically, the power distribution grid was a passive system with limited control capabilities. Due to its increasing digitalization, this paradigm has shifted: the passive architecture of the power system i...

Authors: Friederike Wenderoth, Elisabeth Drayer, Robert Schmoll, Michael Niedermeier and Martin Braun

Enabling architecture based Co-Simulation of complex Smart Grid applications

The integration of decentralized prosumers into current energy systems leads to continuously increasing complexity in today‘s popular term of the Smart Grid. Since conventional engineering methods reach their ...

Authors: Christoph Binder, Michael Fischinger, Lukas Altenhuber, Dieter Draxler, Goran Lastro and Christian Neureiter

Impact of advanced electricity tariff structures on the optimal design, operation and profitability of a grid-connected PV system with energy storage

The increasing penetration of residential photovoltaics (PV) comes with numerous challenges for distribution system operators. Technical difficulties arise when an excess of PV energy is injected into the grid...

Authors: Lionel Bloch, Jordan Holweger, Christophe Ballif and Nicolas Wyrsch

Virtualising redundancy of power equipment controllers using software-defined networking

Power system automation is heavily dependent on the reliable interconnection of power system field equipment and centralised control applications. Particularly important to achieve reliability in automated pow...

Authors: Ferdinand von Tüllenburg, Peter Dorfinger, Armin Veichtlbauer, Ulrich Pache, Oliver Langthaler, Helmut Kapoun, Christian Bischof and Friederich Kupzog

A cooperative demand-response framework for day-ahead optimization in battery pools

The constantly increasing electricity and energy demand in residential buildings, as well as the need for higher absorption rates of renewable sources of energy, demand for an increased flexibility at the end-...

Authors: Georgios C. Chasparis, Mario Pichler, Johanna Spreitzhofer and Tara Esterl

Designing an integrated socio-technical behaviour change system for energy saving

Stimulating households to save energy with behaviour change support systems is a challenge and an opportunity to support efforts towards more sustainable energy consumption. The approaches developed so far, of...

Authors: Ksenia Koroleva, Mark Melenhorst, Jasminko Novak, Sergio Luis Herrera Gonzalez, Piero Fraternali and Andrea E. Rizzoli

An optimisation-based energy disaggregation algorithm for low frequency smart meter data

An algorithm for the non-intrusive disaggregation of energy consumption into its end-uses, also known as non-intrusive appliance load monitoring (NIALM), is presented. The algorithm solves an optimisation prob...

Authors: Cristina Rottondi, Marco Derboni, Dario Piga and Andrea Emilio Rizzoli

Trust-less electricity consumption optimization in local energy communities

Optimizing energy consumption in local energy communities is one of the key contributions to the so-called smart grid. Such communities are equipped with rooftop photovoltaic power plants or other forms of small ...

Authors: Fabian Knirsch, Oliver Langthaler and Dominik Engel

Comparison of solar power measurements in alpine areas using a mobile dual-axis tracking system

The rising demand for sustainable energy requires to identify the sites for photovoltaic systems with the best performance. This paper tackles the question of feasibility of photovoltaic power plants at high a...

Authors: Jelenko Karpić, Ekanki Sharma, Tamer Khatib and Wilfried Elmenreich

Trading solar energy within the neighborhood: field implementation of a blockchain-based electricity market

Due to environmental and resiliency benefits, distributed energy resources (DER) are a potential solution for meeting future electricity demand, but their integration into centralized power markets on the larg...

Authors: Anselma Wörner, Arne Meeuw, Liliane Ableitner, Felix Wortmann, Sandro Schopfer and Verena Tiefenbeck

Visualizing and gamifying consumption data for resource saving: challenges, lessons learnt and a research agenda for the future

In this paper we present insights drawn from recent research projects aimed at developing visualization and gamification tools to stimulate individual behaviour change and promote energy and water saving. We a...

Authors: Piero Fraternali, Francesca Cellina, Sergio Luis Herrera Gonzales, Mark Melenhorst, Jasminko Novak, Chiara Pasini, Cristina Rottondi and Andrea Emilio Rizzoli

Forecasting cross-border power transmission capacities in Central Western Europe using artificial neural networks

Flow-based Market Coupling (FBMC) provides welfare gains from cross-border electricity trading by efficiently providing coupling capacity between bidding zones. In the coupled markets of Central Western Europe...

Authors: Hazem Abdel-Khalek, Mirko Schäfer, Raquel Vásquez, Jan Frederick Unnewehr and Anke Weidlich

Towards automated engineering and validation of cyber-physical energy systems

The massive deployment of distributed generators from renewable sources in recent years has led to a fundamental paradigm change in terms of planning and operation of the electric power system. The usage of ad...

Authors: Filip Pröstl Andrén, Thomas I. Strasser, Jürgen Resch, Bernhard Schuiki, Sebastian Schöndorfer, Georg Panholzer and Christof Brandauer

A study on the impact of data sampling rates on load signature event detection

The analysis of electrical load signatures is an enabling technology for many applications, such as ambient assisted living or energy-saving recommendations. Through the digitalization of electricity metering ...

Authors: Jana Huchtkoetter and Andreas Reinhardt

Pool detection from smart metering data with convolutional neural networks

The nationwide rollout of smart meters in private households raises privacy concerns: Is it possible to extract privacy-sensitive information from a household’s power consumption? For a small sample of 869 Upp...

Authors: Cornelia Ferner, Günther Eibl, Andreas Unterweger, Sebastian Burkhart and Stefan Wegenkittl