3rd Expert Workshop on Design and Operation of Digitalized Sector-Coupled Energy Systems (DigiSect 2024) on 16-17 May

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This is the third international expert workshop in digitalization and sector-coupling of energy systems, as a continuation of the previous two events, including 1st workshop in TUHH 2022 and 2nd Siehe workshop in AIT Austrian Institute of Technology 2023.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from Europe to exchange insights, enhance international collaboration, discuss EU project applications, and create a roadmap on possible trends and research directions for operation, control and digitalization in sector-coupled energy systems and sector integration (power, heating, gas, e-mobility, as well as citizens).

The speakers include professors, leading university researchers, and experts from Europe’s grid operators and energy industries.

Workshop contributions are attributed to the following thematic clusters:

• Cluster 1 – Automation and Digitalization Technologies: focus on digital technologies enabling sector coupling and sector integration, including artificial intelligence, digital twins, IoT and communication, cyber security, simulation, etc.
• Cluster 2 – System architecture and operation strategies: focus on applications and best practices for sector coupling and sector integration both on system and component levels, including pilot sites, energy communities, innovative technologies, markets & regulation, etc.

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PROGRAM – Thursday, 16 May

11.00  Registration opens at Digital Futures

11:30 – 12:30  LUNCH and Registration

12:30 – 12:40  Welcome & Introduction, Associate Professor, Qianwen Xu, KTH

12:40 – 13:40  Keynote: Ambra Sannino, Vice President, Research and Development, Vattenfall

13:40 – 14:00  BREAK

14:00 – 15:20  Session 1 – Cluster 1: Smart energy – 4 Presentations & Panel Discussion

• Antonello Monti, Professor, RWTH Aachen – “ Smart Data for Smart Energy”
• Antonio Kung, CTO, Trialog
• Darius Kvainauskas, Strategic Development Manager, Svenska kraftnät – “How CIM and data exhange is used for European Energy collaboration”
• Wout van Voornveld, Lead Data Architect and Expert Modeller, NV Nederlandse Gasunie – “Molecules in an Electron World – an intersectorial approach”

15:20 – 15:45  BREAK

15:45 – 17:00  Session 2 – Cluster 2: Sector-coupling – 4 Presentations & Panel Discussion

• Davood Babazadeh, Innovation Management, Stromnetz Hamburg – “Sector coupling and essential data exchange – from Hamburg DSO point of view”
• Frank-Helmut Wehner, Microgrid Commercial Leader, Schneider
• Quirin Hamp, R&D Manager @ Business Development,  Stockholm Exergi – “The neglected stakeholder in climate change mitigation“
• Georg Scharinger-Urschitz, District Heating Strategy Expert, Wien Energie – “Decarbonization of large-scale district heating networks with a focus on sector coupling”

17:15 – 18:15  Discussion & Brainstorming

Workshop DINNER or Boat Tour – to be announced

End of Day    

PROGRAM – Friday, 17 May

09:00 – 10:20  Session 3 – Cluster 1: Digitalization – 4 Presentations & Panel Discussion

• Andreas Ulbig, Professor, RWTH Aachen
• Christof Wittwer, Director of Business Area System Integration, Fraunhofer ISE – “Digital system integration for the transformation of the energy system”
• Mark Stefan, Senior Research Engineer & Thematic Coordinator, AIT – “Grid-friendly energy communities in PARMENIDES”
• Md Tanbhir Hoq, Research Team Manager, Hitachi Energy – “Leveraging digitalization to support energy transition: Hitachi Energy Perspective”

10:20 – 10:45  BREAK

10:45 – 11:45  Panel about education for Digitalised sector coupled energy systems

• Moderator: Astrid Nieße (OFFIS)
• Panellists: Dimitris Lagos (NTUA), Arnold Pears (KTH), Christian Becker (TUHH), Lars Nordström (KTH)

11:45 – 12:45  LUNCH

12:45 – 14:00  Session 4 – Cluster 2: Flexibility – 4 Presentations & Panel Discussion

• Andreas Rauh, Professor, Carl von Ossietzky – “Digital Twins for Battery Cell Production and Their Possible Interfaces with Battery Management Strategies”
• Iver Bakken Sperstad, Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF – “Classifying and  characterizing power system flexibility solutions”
• Jonas Anund Vogel, Director of KTH Dig-it Lab – “Industrialising digitalisation for the built environment”
• Alexandre Canet, Researcher, Cardiff – “Flexibility from the residential heat sector”

14:15 – 15:15  Discussion & Brainstorming

15:15 – 15:30  Wrap-up and Closing

End of Day

Organising team

• KTH:  Prof. Qianwen Xu, Prof. Lars Nordström, Dr. Jonas Anund Vogel
• TUHH: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Becker, Dr. Payam T. Baboli
• OFFIS: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Astrid Nieße, Dr.-Ing. Jirapa Kamsamrong
• AIT: PD Dr. Thomas Strasser, Dr. Edmund Widl
• Stromnetz Hamburg: Dr. Davood Babazadeh