Broadband networks, smart grids and climate change

Smart grids : another step towards competition , energy security and climate change objectives

The deployment of smart grids in electricity systems has given rise to much interdisciplinary research. The new technology is seen as an additional instrument available to States to achieve targets for promoting competition, increasing the safety of electricity systems and combating climate change. But the boom in smart grids also raises many economic questions. Public policies will need to be ...

Synchronization in Oscillator Networks and Smart Grids

[1] F. Dörfler and F. Bullo. On the critical coupling for Kuramoto oscillators. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 10(3):1070–1099, 2011 [2] F. Dörfler and F. Bullo. Synchronization and transient stability in power networks and non-uniform Kuramoto oscillators. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 50(3):1616–1642, 2012 [3] F. Dörfler, M. Chertkov, and F. Bullo. Synchronization in c...

Redundancy in Communication Networks for Smart Grids

Traditional electric power grids are currently undergoing fundamental changes: Representative examples are the increase in the penetration of volatile and decentralized renewable-energy sources and the emerging distributed energy-storage systems. These changes are not viable without the introduction of automation in grid monitoring and control, which implies the application of information and c...

Smart Buildings and Smart Grids

This report provides an overview of the program, discussions, and outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 15091 “Smart Buildings and Smart Grids”, which took place from 22–27 February 2015 at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics. The main goal of the seminar was to provide a forum for leading Energy Informatics (EI) researchers to discuss their recent research on Smart Buildings and Smart Gri...

Smart Grids