TU Delft begins with ICAI Lab ‘AI for Energy Grids’
At present, the Netherlands’ electricity grid is reaching the limits of its distribution capacity. A strong and smart electricity grid is essential for the energy transition, so it is essential to improve the grid’s transport capacity. The AI for Energy Grids Lab focuses on expanding that transport capacity in two ways – by improving grid operations, and by conducting research into infrastructure expansion. This will involve analysing grid data, and developing new AI methods and tools that learn from this data.
Jochen Cremer, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of EEMCS, is the lab manager responsible for the lab’s scientific direction. Cremer is also co-director of the TU Delft AI Energy Lab, part of the TU Delft AI Initiative. Next to Jochen Cremer, there are several other TU Delft academics affiliated to the AI for Energy Grids Lab, including Peter Palensky, Roel Dobbe, Simon Tindemans, and Han La Poutre.
The energy system, and in particular the distribution grid, is becoming increasingly dynamic, complex and stochastic. However, the methods used to plan and manage the grid rely on passive structures and simple worst-case assumptions. This lowers the performance of the current grid, and therefore becomes a barrier to the energy transition. It is now time to catch up and transform grid companies’ methods. AI will make an important contribution to such a future energy system.
Jochen Cremer, Assistant Professor and lab manager ICAI lab AI for Energy grids
AI for Energy and Sustainability (E&S) Think Tanks
Together with his partners at Alliander, Radboud University, Twente University and HAN University, Jochen Cremer invited guest speakers for the new series of TU Delft AI for Energy & Sustainability Think Tanks. In the series, the lab will discuss what it is aiming to achieve and what challenges lie ahead. The AI for Energy and Sustainability (E&S) Think Tank is a series of online events hosted by the Delft AI Energy Lab en het PowerWeb Institute.Every third Monday 13:00-14:00 CET, we zoom in on research with either a promising Artificial Intelligence (AI) method or their promising use for energy and sustainability. During the events, you can participate, learn, make connections, inspire and be inspired for new research for AI for E&S. One of the goals of this Think Tank series is to develop a research map of AI research for E&S. We invite MSc thesis students, PhDs, postdocs, and staff to join the discussions. Please register here.
PhD vacancy
There is one open PhD position at the new AI for Energy Grids Lab, based at TU Delft, about congestion management and flexibility in electricity grids. More information can be found here.
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ROBUST, an initiative from the Innovation Centre for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), is a collaboration of 51 partners from industry, government, and the knowledge sector, including TU Delft. ROBUST’s total budget is over 87 million euros, and with the new impetus from NWO, 17 labs and 170 PhD students will be added in 10 years. See also: TU Delft in ROBUST with 3 new ICAI labs and AI clinics for SMEs thanks to NWO funding of 25 million euro