2018 News & Photos

During the "Clusterkonferenz Energietechnik Berlin-Brandenburg" on 5 December 2018, Christine Michalek participated in the final round of the WindNODE Challenge. Her 5-minutes-pitch reached 4^th place. It introduced the Smart.Grid app of SENSE as an opportunity to inspire excitement for the topic of the German energy transition.

On 12 November 2018 SENSE hosted the final workshop of research project OptNetzE at TU Berlin. The project partners presented and discussed their key results.

On 25 October 2018, Dr. Karimi, Senior Technical Fellow at the Boeing Company visited TU Berlin. He held a presentation about the status and future trends of aerospace power electric and electronic systems.

On 27 September 2018, Dr.-Ing. Andreas F. Raab held a presentation about specific challenges and opportunities presented by the electrification of bus fleets. 

Best poster award for Sebastian Georgi: At the VDE-conference "4. Dialogplattform Power to Heat", Sebastian Georgi presented an innovative approach for the optimal operation of a combined electric and district heating network including power-to-heat units and heat pumps for the integration of wind energy. Co-authors were Dr. Maren Kuschke and Professor Kai Strunz for the conference held in Berlin, 11 and 12 June 2018. The jury honored the work with a best poster award.

During the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" on 9 June 2018, Stefan Bschorer and Christine Michalek presented the research project "Energienetz Berlin Adlershof" and promoted the Smart.Grid app. Visitors had the opportunity to try the app game on site and they could also obtain detailed information about the project and smart grid in Berlin Adlershof.

Stefan Bschorer from SENSE held a presentation at the German – Russian roundtable on "Innovative solutions in smart city energy in Germany and Russia". The roundtable was part of the exposition on energy efficiency in Irkutsk on 23 and 24 May 2018. After the reception by the Rector of Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Michail Kornikov, a delegation consisting of German and Russian researchers visited laboratories at Irkutsk National Research Technical University and Melentiev Energy Systems Institute.

The semi-annual project meeting of the project OptNetzE took place on 23 May 2017 at TU Berlin. At this meeting, the progress within different work packages was discussed. DThe participants were from 50Hertz, Stromnetz Berlin, E.DIS, BTB, BAUM Consult, Bosch SI, New Energy Capital Invest, BTU Cottbus and TU Berlin.

Simon Hellmuth from SENSE gave an invited presentation at the 19^th IEEE MELECON. The conference took place in Marrakesh on 2 and 3 May 2018. The topic, “Frequency variations in transmission systems with a high share of wind power”, included interim results of the EU Horizon 2020 project MIGRATE.

Samuel Schilling and Peter Teske preseted posters to the topics "Representation of Losses of HVDC Converters in Power Flow Calculation" and "Smart Grid Integration of Electric Buses" at ADCGS in Aachen on 19 and 20 April 2018.

The jury honored the Poster "Smart Grid Integration of Electric Buses - Implementation of a Uni- an Bidiretional Charging Infrastructure" with a Best Poster Award. Co-authors were Enrico Lauth, Dr. Andreas F. Raab, Prof. Dietmar Göhlich and Prof. Kai Strunz.

On 12 April 2018, a new high power charging station for electric buses was inaugurated at EUREF-Campus. The integration into the smart grid on the EUREF-Campus demonstrates prototypically what contribution electric buses and other electric vehicle fleets can make to a future energy supply.

A delegation from Irkutsk National Research Technical University visited TU Berlin on 7 February 2018. Prof. Strunz presented the SENSE Smart Grid Laboratory.

On 9 January, Prof. Jahns and Prof. Blaabjerg visited TU Berlin. Prof. Jahns from University of Wisconsin – Madison gave a talk about the robustness of islanded microgrids. Prof. Blaabjerg from Aalborg University focused on the significance of power electronics for wind power technologies.