The world energy market is changing, with many developed countries investing into green energy as well as distributed energy production. This transformation has led to the possibility of prosumers- the producer of relatively small and sporadic amounts of energy, to significantly influence the market and the power quality in the grid. Nonetheless, a wider proliferation of privately owned solar collectors, windmills, and other kinds of green generators make it challenging to manage the flow of energy that is no longer uni-directional.
LUCS is bringing together research groups and educational institutions that are committed to educating the next generation of researchers and engineers by joining forces to provide knowledge and experience that will assist Masters and early doctoral students with experiment design and performance analyses of smart grid systems. The research-related objectives of LUCS are to facilitate interaction of researchers for the purpose of developing and implementing novel approaches to improve the performance and robustness of the smart grid systems.
LUCS has focused on the following activities:
- organize 4 summer schools
- share common smart grid curriculum between University of Oslo and Technical University of Berlin
- organize 3 research workshops
Our 3rd PhD workshop was once again able to be held in-person, 2-4 March 2022, in Munich together with the PACE INPART project, following our virtual workshop in 2021. Our workshops have allowed our PhD students to present their work in a friendly and constructive environment. Refer to https://www.simulamet.no/content/final-lucs-pace-research-workshop-energy-informatics for a public news item on our last workshop.
We conducted our first two summer schools on "Future Energy Information Networks" (Oslo, Sept 3-7 2018) and "Smart cities for a sustainable energy future- From design to practice" (Berlin, August 19-30 2019) before the pandemic. We were especially glad to run our first post-covid in-person summer school, "Green Computing meets Green Energy" (Lille, September 5-10 2021). Although run with strict covid measures, it was enthusiastically attended seeding future research collaborations -- a key aim in this project. See https://www.simulamet.no/content/green-computing-meets-green-energy for our public news write up on the event. Realising many of the hindrances and blockages to energy system transformation required broad cross disciplinary collaborative research, our final summer school "From Energy Systems to Energy Justice" (Sundvollen, Aug. 29–Sep. 2 2022) brought together research students and speakers from technical disciplines as well as social and justice disciplines. See https://www.simulamet.no/content/final-lucs-pace-summer-school for our public news write up on the summer school. Our last 3 summer schools were held in collaboration with the PACE INPART project.
The pandemic forced our curriculum sharing work to be developed as video lectures. TUB has produced three specific IoT lectures from their Smart Communication Systems (SCS) course as part of LUCS course development and curriculum sharing:
- IoT Basics, Architecture & Components
- IoT Connectivity Protocols (Short-range & Long-range)
- IoT Messaging Protocols (Focus on MQTT & CoAP)
UiO has made the following Energy Informatics video lectures available as part of LUCS course development and curriculum sharing:
- Introduction to Energy Informatics (part 1 and 2)
- Green Data Center
- Energy Market and Game Theory
- Demand Response Management
- Cloud Fog Computing for Smart Grid
- Block Chain for Smart Grid
- Smart Grid Privacy and Security
- Machine Learning for Renewable Energy Forecasting (Part 1 and 2)
- Deep Learning for Renewable Energy Forecasting (Part 1, 2 and 3)
The LUCS project has brought in speakers that have inspired and informed our students, facilitated students in the building of their research networks, and sown the seeds of future collaborations.
We have successfully conducted 3 PhD workshops and 4 summer schools on "Future Energy Information Networks" (Oslo, Sept 3-7 2018), "Smart cities for a sustainable energy future- From design to practice" (Berlin, August 19-30 2019), "Green Computing meets Green Energy" (Lille, September 5-10 2021
(see https://www.simulamet.no/content/green-computing-meets-green-energy)), and "From Energy Systems to Energy Justice", (Sundvollen, Aug. 29–Sep. 2 2022, see https://www.simulamet.no/content/final-lucs-pace-summer-school). The summer schools and workshops have initiated relationships between participants that have potential to develop further as students complete their research and move into academia or industry.
TUB has produced three specific IoT lectures from their Smart Communication Systems (SCS) course as part of LUCS course development and curriculum sharing:
- IoT Basics, Architecture & Components
- IoT Connectivity Protocols (Short-range & Long-range)
- IoT Messaging Protocols (Focus on MQTT & CoAP)
UiO has made the following Energy Informatics video lectures available as part of LUCS course development and curriculum sharing:
- Introduction to Energy Informatics (part 1 and 2)
- Green Data Center
- Energy Market and Game Theory
- Demand Response Management
- Cloud Fog Computing for Smart Grid
- Block Chain for Smart Grid
- Smart Grid Privacy and Security
- Machine Learning for Renewable Energy Forecasting (Part 1 and 2)
- Deep Learning for Renewable Energy Forecasting (Part 1, 2 and 3)
The LUCS project has brought in speakers that have inspired and informed our students, facilitated students in the building of their research networks, and sown the seeds of future collaborations. Working together with the PACE INPART project has enabled partners develop additional relationships that will continue beyond the end of the project. This will lead to future collaborative projects and better research in the area.
The world energy market is changing, with many developed countries investing into green energy as well as distributed energy production. This transformation has led to the appearance of the classical energy consuming citizens as a producer of relatively small and sporadic amounts of energy. This role has been named "prosumer", and is creating a wide range of challenges to classical large-scale energy producers and energy network providers.
With a wider proliferation of privately owned solar collectors, windmills, and perhaps other kinds of green generators, it becomes a challenging task to manage the flow of energy that is no longer uni-directional. The Smart Grid is the research world?s answer to these challenges, but research for dealing with the many challenges of Smart Grids that extend to nation scales and beyond has just reached its infancy.
The LUCS partnership is bringing together research groups and educational institutions that are committed to educating the next generation of researchers and engineers who will be able to tackle these challenges. Since the research challenges are many, each of the partners has so far only addressed a subset, but all partners are aware that true solutions need a complete view. The LUCS partners are therefore joining forces to achieve a better coverage and combination of strategies, and the projects aims at providing a much more holistic higher education for the future generation than each partner by itself can provide now.