PowerWeb Institute
The electrical power infrastructure is rapidly changing due to the growing use of distributed renewable sources and is becoming increasingly complex to manage. Today's electricity market requires an infrastructure for flexible, reconfigurable smart grids that can facilitate the producer and consumer in their changing needs. Future electricity grids ask for a multi-layered ICT approach in order to become robust. And need to be embedded in society as a socio-technological system in itself.
TU Delft PowerWeb Institute
In search of integral solutions for this changing energy market, three faculties at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) joined forces in the PowerWeb initiative. Our view on smart grids research comprises the integrated study of the underlying physical systems (hardware), the design of smart energy management systems (software), and the study of smart grids in relation to their societal and economic environment (peopleware). This will allow us to model and design ICT systems that integrate energy production and consumption services in a robust way.
The TU Delft PowerWeb Institute is one of energy pillars of the TU Delft Energy Initiative.
News and events
24 februari 2021
TU Delft ontwikkelt slimme gebouwen
Een groot consortium, getrokken door de TU Delft, zal de komende jaren werken aan de ontwikkeling van slimme gebouwen. Het ministerie van Economische Zaken en Klimaat heeft 6,9 miljoen euro toegewezen aan het Brains 4 Buildings project.
10 februari 2021
5,7 miljoen euro voor hybride energieopslagsystemen
Het Ministerie van Economische Zaken en Klimaat trekt 5,7 miljoen euro uit voor FLEXINet. Het FLEXINet-consortium zal, de komende jaren, werken aan hybride energieopslagsystemen: systemen waarmee zowel warmte als elektriciteit opgeslagen kan worden. Pavol Bauer, professor aan de TU Delft en projectleider en coördinator van het project: ‘Met FLEXINet streven we naar een systeem dat de energietransitie bespoedigt.
20 november 2020
Team ZED van de TU Delft wint 4TU Impact Challenge
Team ZED heeft de Dutch 4TU Impact Challenge gewonnen en gaat naar de World Expo in Dubai.
19 november 2020
New approach to make the cloud run sustainably
Just like the roads that provide access to them and the dikes that protect them, cloud datacentres have become an essential part of our national, and worldwide, infrastructure. Thanks to capacity planning research by TU Delft master’s student Georgios Andreadis, these datacentres may continue to meet the ever-growing computational demands while reducing their operational costs and increasing their efficiency and environmental sustainability.
03 november 2020
Successful international conference on the future of smart grids
The 10th edition of the IEEE PES ISGT Europe Conference, a flagship conference of IEEE Power & Energy Society, was hosted by the TU Delft this year. It was very successfully organized in a virtual fashion. Participants joined from 47 different countries, spread over five continents, with more than 30% having an affiliation outside Europe.