Revisiting TenneT: TUHH students and ieet staff were privileged to once again enter the operations center of TenneT TSO GmbH in Lehrte, Germany. The TenneT team presented us with the multifaceted challenges of navigating our evolving electricity landscape. A big thank you to Florian Schomaker, Dr. Marc Dokus and Bernd Käßmeyer - without his efforts, these hands-on experiences wouldn't be possible. And the highlight? Switching the 380 kV disconnector, an electrifying experience!

22nd Wind & Solar Integration Workshop, 26–28 September 2023, Copenhagen

NEIS - Conference on Sustainable Energy Supply and Energy Storage Systems, Hamburg, September 4-5, 2023

On Sunday, July 16th, 2023, our three colleagues Tom Steffen (swimming), Christina Eckel (cycling), and Johannes Heise (running) started as a relay team at the Hamburg Wasser Triathlon and finished the olympic distance in less than 2:30h Energizing performance! Congratulations on the ieet Triathlon debut!

We are excited to announce the result of our project work within the scope of the "Elektrotechnisches Projektpraktikum" - an outstanding Network Demonstrator developed by our dedicated team of students over the past few weeks. With the sponsorship from Bachmann electronic GmbH, we were able to build the amazing demonstrator shown below. The students built a microgrid that can show how electrical systems work in different weather conditions and also what happens when there are failures in the system(e.g. earth faults, line outage).

PowerTech 2023 conference of the IEEE Power & Energy Society in Belgrade was an exciting experience! A great opportunity to share knowledge, meet inspiring people, learn and connect. We had a great time. Already looking forward to PowerTech 2025 in Kiel! We had the chance to present our work on: "Coupled Multi-Energy Grid Planning - Paving The Way From Isolated To Integrated Planning" - Johannes Heise, Merlin Engel, Marwan Mostafa, Jonathan Vieth, Davood Babazadeh, Arne Speerforck, Christian Becker "Data Driven System Identification For Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems" - Florian Strobel, Davood Babazadeh, Christian Becker "Bayesian Physics-Informed Neural Networks For Robust System Identification of Power Systems" - Simon Stock, Jochen Stiasny, Davood Babazadeh, Christian Becker, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

Expert Workshop on Design and Operation of Digitalized Sector-Coupled Energy Systems

From 12-14 April, the first of regularly scheduled training courses was held for staff and students of the Institute of Electrical Power an Energy Technology (ieet) in the newly established Bachmann PLC training center. The training was supervised and carried out by Franck Tadenvok, Bachmann electronic GmbH Office Bremen. With expertise and commitment, the participants were introduced to the Bachmann automation system during the three-day basic training course and solutions for automation, simulation and visualisation were worked out together. More Information Hamburg University of Technology and Bachmann

Our colleague Robert Annuth was invited to present his research results on power and energy management of DC grids on ships at the Maritime Research Forum 2023 of the German Maritime Centre in Bremen. Many thanks for the great organisation, the interesting discussions and the opportunity to meet industry partners and other researchers.

As part of the TUHH course Electrical Energy Systems II, we recently visited the control center of the transmission system operator TenneT TSO GmbH in Lehrte-Ahlten, Germany. The TenneT team shared with us a variety of insights into the new challenges of managing the increasingly complex electric power system. At the end of the substation tour, we performed a switching operation on the 380 kV busbar, which impressively demonstrated the power of electric current.