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Applicable Network Optimization for Smart Energy Systems with Limited Communications, Principal Investigator, Swedish Research Council and Energimyndigheten, 2017-2020 (0.4 M€). The distribution of electrical energy by power networks is arguably among the largest infrastructures made by humans and an essential foundation for most modern technology. Power networks consist of two layers, transmission networks and distribution networks, which are connected by electric substations. The power distribution networks are still highly suboptimally operated. They consist of large number of users with billions of appliances, such as households and small business, whose electricity consumption is unpredictable. The current assumption within fundamental research is that all these appliances are capable to have bi-directional communication to coordinate the energy distribution. This assumption is far from reality and will be in practice impossible to merge a highly performing communication network together with a smart grid. The result is that future smart grids will not be sustainable. We propose a groundbreaking new method to make the control of energy distribution viable from immediately by novel fundamental algorithms that demand only light information transmission.

Carlo Fischione
Carlo Fischione
Professor