Energia Connecticum – Colloquium on Energy at the TU Ilmenau

On October 1, the Energia Connecticum will take place at the TU Ilmenau. The annual colloquium of the Thuringian Energy Research Institute (ThEFI) is a forum for experts from the energy industry and science to exchange views on current energy issues across scientific disciplinary boundaries. In the university's Year of Energy, the technical focus of the event is on cognitive energy systems. The topics range from fully automated power distribution networks and virtual power storage systems to solar water splitting, which many see as the energy technology of the future.This year, the Energia Connecticum will take place as a hybrid event, i.e. with participants present and others connected via video.

The program of the Energia Connecticum will initially include expert presentations on innovative research projects that aim for an energy system based on renewable energy sources and using artificial intelligence (AI). The host of the colloquium, Prof. Peter Bretschneider, Head of the Energy Usage Optimization Group at TU Ilmenau and Head of Cognitive Energy Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Systems Engineering, sees the transformation of the energy supply towards an electricity supply system based on renewable energies that is sustainable, flexible and affordable as one of the greatest challenges of our time: "This requires innovative ideas and novel approaches from research and development. In order to achieve the high goals of the energy transition, many researchers from our university and also from non-university research institutions are also working on this in outstanding national and international research networks." Following the presentation of the AI projects, scientists from TU Ilmenau will present their PhD and projects at ThEFI.

The Thuringian Energy Research Institute (ThEFI) unites twelve disciplines from four departments of the TU Ilmenau in interdisciplinary energy research with the aim of increasing research competence in all areas of energy, environmental and systems engineering at the university and with scientific partners. The areas of activity of the ThEFI include not only the research and development of processes related to energy, but also the corresponding marketing of research results in cooperation with industrial companies and associations.

Info: www.tu-ilmenau.de/veranstaltungen/energia-connecticum

Program

12:00: Welcome and introduction to Cognitive Energy Systems

Prof. Peter Bretschneider, Head of the of the Energy Usage Optimization Group at the TU Ilmenau and Head of Cognitive Energy Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Systems Engineering

12:15 pm: Presentation of selected AI projects and discussion

• Fraunhofer Performance Center Intelligent Signal Analysis and Assistance Systems (InSignA) - Pilot Project Cross-site Real-Time Simulation Platform
  Steffen Nicolai, Deputy Head of Cognitive Energy Systems, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Systems Engineering
• Collaborative Project Virtual Parking Garage Storage
  Dr. Stefanie Eckner, Energy Usage Optimization Group at TU Ilmenau, and Sebastian Flemming, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Systems Engineering
• Growth Core smood
  Matthias Oettmeier, Project Manager Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Systems Engineering
• Bauhaus.MobilityLab
  Lucas Richter, research assistant Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Systems Engineering

14:00 Break

14:30: Presentation of selected PhD and projects at ThEFI (5-minute pitches)

16:00-18:00 h: Get-Together

To the program flyer (pdf, 7 MB)

Contact

Prof. Peter Bretschneider
Head of Energy Usage Optimization Group
+49 3677 69-4964
peter.bretschneider@tu-ilmenau.de

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