Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems

09/03/2018

In the H2020 RESERVE project we are performing and field-testing newly developed techniques that will enable a stable supply with 100% renewable resources. This ambitious but achievable goal starts with the specification of the required components and functions that future automation systems must have for frequency and voltage control in a system with 100% RES:
http://www.acs.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/paxm/lidx/1

The H2020 RESERVE project started in September 2016. In the project we are performing and field-testing newly developed techniques that will enable a stable supply with 100% renewable resources. This ambitious but achievable goal starts with the specification of the required components and functions...

30/01/2018

At ACS we work on many other interesting projects in the following research groups:
• Cyber-Physical Energy Systems Management
• Campus Cluster Projects
• Energy System Optimization and Cloud Solutions
• Large Software System Challenges
• Power System Control
• Power System Automation
• Real Time Simulation and Hardware-in-the-Loop

http://www.acs.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/mgoi/lidx/1

Moderne Energieinfrastrukturen bringen als grundlegende Anforderungen die Notwendigkeit von gemeinsamer Analyse und Design des elektrischen Netzes sowie der Regelungsalgorithmen mit sich. Darüber hinaus ist es wesentlich, die kommunikationstechnischen und physikalischen Komponenten zu integrieren u...

30/01/2018

ENSURE is one of the four Kopernikus-Projects launched by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in 2016, as the largest research initiative for the implementation of the Energiewende, and one of the few that bring together the strongest (interdisciplinary and partly competing) partners from industry, research and teaching (institutes of the RWTH, KIT, E.ON, TenneT, SIEMENS, ABB, and 17 other participants are involved). The aim of ENSURE's research is to find the optimal mixture of central and decentralized supply, exploit new power electronic technologies (phase shifters, UPFCs, HVDC) and ICT technologies and develop cross-sectoral operational concepts (that consider electricity and gas networks), which enable a reliable and efficient energy supply with more than 80% share of renewable energy: http://www.acs.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/nyin/lidx/1

ENSURE ist eines der 4 Kopernikus-Projekte, die das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) in 2016 als größte Forschungsinitiative zur Umsetzung der Energiewende gestartet hat. Es ist eines der wenigen Projekte, die die stärksten (interdisziplinären und teilweise konkurrierenden) Pa...

30/01/2018

Supporting Smart Energy as a Service is a promising application for 5G mobile network communications. NRG-5 will enable the deployment, operation and management of existing and new 5G communications and energy infrastructures, providing security, resilience and high availability mechanisms: http://www.acs.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/okio/lidx/1

Dienstleistungen für das intelligente Energienetz zu unterstützen ist eine vielversprechende Anwendung für 5G Mobilkommunikation. NRG-5 wird den Einsatz, Betrieb und das Management existierender und neuer 5G Kommunikations- und Energieinfrastrukturen vorantreiben, um sichere und belastbare Mechan...

30/01/2018

The success project will develop an overarching approach to threat and countermeasure analysis with special focus on the vulnerabilities introduced by Smart Meters. Success will achieve this objective by encapsulating the key challenges of Security, Resilience, Survivability and Privacy in 3 use cases which will focus the Research, Implementation and Evaluation concepts: http://www.acs.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/mfoz/lidx/1

Das Projekt SUCCESS entwickelt einen allgemeingültigen Ansatz zur Analyse von Gefährdungen und Gegenmaßnahmen in Energie Infrastrukturen mit dem Schwerpunkt Smart Metering. Hierfür werden die Kernherausforderungen - Sicherheit, Resilienz, Überlebensfähigkeit und Privatsphäre - in drei Anwendu...

24/01/2018

The goal of the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems (ACS) is to implement a multidisciplinary research approach able to capture the most recent advances in ICT to support the solution of the most advanced problems in the area of grid dynamics and automation. In order to achieve this vision the research in ACS is organized around three main pillars: "Grid operations", "ICT for Energy", "Control and Automation".

16/01/2018

The research project HermitCore is a novel unikernel targeting a scalable and predictable runtime behavior for HPC and cloud environments:
http://www.acs.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/mjfh/lidx/1

Das Projekt HermitCore ist ein neuartiger Unikernel, welches ein skalierbares und vorhersagbares Laufzeitverhalten für HPC- und Cloud-Umgebungen gewährleistet. HermitCore kann als klassischer Unikernel innerhalb einer virtuellen Maschine verwendet werden. Darüber hinaus erweitert es den Multi-Ker...

09/01/2018

Our institute offers a variety of bachelor and master theses, as well as job offers for student research assistants, belonging to the field of power and computer engineering.

Theses: http://www.acs.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/fyix/lidx/1
Student Research Assistants: http://www.acs.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/pgwf/lidx/1

Review of cloud computing enablers and services in electric vehicles charging management, and application in optimization context