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
30 september 2020
H2020-project: een nieuw marktontwerp voor 100% hernieuwbare energiesystemen
De beweging naar een bijna 100% hernieuwbaar Europees elektriciteitssysteem vereist een innovatief ontwerp van de elektriciteitsmarkt. Het door de EU gefinancierde TradeRES-project zal een nieuw marktontwerp testen in een simulatieomgeving.
03 februari 2020
Kick-Off DEI 2.0
On 29 January Kornelis Blok took over the role as Chair for the Delft Energy Initiative (DEI). Rector Magnificus Tim van der Hagen applauded Paulien Herder for her achievements as Chair for the last 6.5 years. DEI will forward here work with 4 main energy pillars and has chosen 4 new themes to help them grow.
09 januari 2020
€3,3m financiering voor invoeren van vertrouwen in de interneteconomie
Sovereignty4Europe, een interdisciplinair projectvoorstel dat de principes van een ‘Internet-of-Trust’ wil evalueren in een online community van 50.000 internetgebruikers, heeft 3,3 miljoen euro aan financiering gekregen, waarvan 1,5 miljoen euro van NWO.
16 december 2019
Special Issue: PV Charging and Storage for Electric Vehicles
11 december 2019
Developing a digital twin for the electricity grid
The rapid transition to renewable energy threatens to cause major problems to the very expensive electricity grid in the Netherlands. In his quest for solutions, Professor Peter Palensky is now working on a “digital twin” to make it possible to study the grid effectively.