Energy grids

The surge of renewables and the need to move away from fossil energy brings new challenges to the electric grid and energy distribution in general. There is a change from central generation and distributed consumption, e.g. nuclear power plants, to distributed generation with various energy sources and distributed consumption.

This poses interesting research questions for control and optimisation like autonomous operation of microgrids, clever energy distribution design (e.g. using and distributing exhaust heat of an industrial site), energy storage, and so on.

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