Department of Electrical Engineering

Electrical Energy Systems

Our research aims at transforming electricity grids towards a truly future-proof, sustainable energy supply. The group focusses on methodologies for planning, design and operation of smart medium-voltage and low-voltage networks with high amounts of renewable energy generation, storage and flexible demand.

The generation and dissemination of knowledge to support the supply and efficient use of electrical energy for a sustainable society

Electricity - the sustainable energy carrier. The electricity supply system is an essential link in the use of electricity and renewable energy. The following four developments impose new challenges to the design and operation of electricity networks:

Research Program Power Grid Technologies

The EES group contributes to the area of electric energy supply and use, through two main research programs. These research programs are chosen on the basis of the current needs of society and industry, the competencies of our group built in history and the synergy with our colleagues in and outside TU/e.

Research Program Intelligent Power Grids

The digital Power & Energy Systems (digi-PES) Lab (Phuong Nguyen)

The digi-PES lab aims to enable the energy transition from micro energy grids towards the future integrated energy system. The laboratory environment is a cyber-physical ecosystem for students and researchers to explore innovations in various energy-related aspects of (but not limited to) nano/micro-grids, local energy communities, local flexibility/energy markets, optimal power/energy flow, or congestion management, hand-in-hand with emerging (big) data and Internet-of-Things (IoT) domains to lay a foundation for comprehensive data-drive and inter-dependencies models of energy system integration.

Power System Optimization and Electricity Markets (Nikos Paterakis)

To facilitate Reliable Information Driven (Control & Coordination) Electrical Power systems.

Research topics:

Multi-scale modeling approaches to study power systems, taking into account their growing complexity, the underlying uncertainty and risk factors, as well as the need for greater interaction between the different levels (transmission, distribution, etc.) and stakeholders, in the context of both wholesale and emerging local electricity markets. This comprises new methodologies and value-based mechanisms to integrate renewable energy and storage systems, as well as other flexibility resources (e.g. electric vehicles, demand response) at different spatial scales (buildings, neighborhoods, cities)
Methodologies and tools capable of exploiting in an intelligent and cost effective way large amounts of data; this is a priority in the emerging context of the ‘digitalization of energy’ for applications such as market participation strategies, demand modeling and forecasting. In this regard, the application of machine learning techniques and the exploitation of cloud-based systems is crucial
Approaches to evaluate and enhance the reliability of the power system in the light of disruptive technology shifts that may be adopted by end-users and utilities in the near future. This comprises cases of increased reliance on energy that is locally available, new market structures and grid architectures to facilitate energy trading (e.g. meshed grids at lower voltage levels to facilitate peer-to-peer energy trading) and emerging business models such as the ones based on the principles of sharing economy

Smart grid planning, operation and optimization

Supporting planning and operation of future power systems, with increasing amounts of fluctuating renewable energy generation, storage techniques and flexible demand.

Competencies:

Working principles and modeling of distributed generation technologies
Modeling and simulation of electricity grids
Principles of network components and architecture
Economic principles of power systems and energy markets
Computing fundamentals: mathematical and heuristic/meta-heuristic optimization, data science (including machine learning), statistics, systems control theory

Research topics:

Computation tools for long-term network planning
Multi-energy systems planning and optimization
Monitoring and control of distribution system operations
TSO-DSO interaction in an operational framework
Decentralized optimization and control of smart grids
Islanded operation of active distribution grids/micro-grids
Application of demand flexibility and storage in power system operation

News

December 13, 2022

Optimizing Investment Planning of Integrated Multi-Energy Systems

Iris van Beuzekom defended her PhD thesis at the department of Electrical Engineering on December 13th.

September 22, 2022

Electrical Engineering department receives a further boost through Cyber-Physical System Center Eindhoven (CPSe) efforts

The Cyber-Physical System Center Eindhoven participated in the acquisition of 9 new granted projects related to calls launched in 2021. Those projects bring...

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February 8, 2022

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January 21, 2022

Utilising demand flexibility in electricity distribution networks

October 29, 2021

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Education and research is strongly related in the EES group. The content of our courses lay in the area of Intelligent Power Grids (Smart Grids), Pulsed Power Technology and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC). The fact that a significant part of our research is done in one of our specialized laboratories, reflects also on the courses which incorporate laboratory experiments.

The EES group offers a wide variety of internships and master graduation projects within the 2 research programs.

In EMC we develop advanced modeling and measurement techniques that will help the designers of electronic systems to fully understand and simulate the key factors leading to potential degradation of signals in systems at an early stage of the design process. For more information, please contact Ramiro Serra.

Research on Intelligent Power Grids focusses on design and operating methodologies for future electricity delivery systems with special emphasis on smart autonomous distribution networks and their interaction with the upper level and customers. For more information, please contact Phuong Nguyen.

The research on Pulsed Power Technology concerns three interrelated systems: the power modulator, the interfacing plasma and the target process. For more information, please contact Guus Pemen.

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P.O. Box 513

Department of Electrical Engineering

5612 AP Eindhoven

Netherlands
Visiting address

Flux 2.133

P.O. Box 513

5600 MB Eindhoven

Netherlands

+31 (0)40 247 3993
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Electrical Energy Systems

The generation and dissemination of knowledge to support the supply and efficient use of electrical energy for a sustainable society

Research Program Power Grid Technologies

Research Program Intelligent Power Grids

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Han Slootweg

Lex van Deursen

Sjef Cobben

Ramiro Serra

Yin Sun

Korneel Wijnands

Tiago Castelo de Oliveira

Haoyang Zhang

Bert van Heesch

Guus Pemen

Wilfred Hoeben

Pyae Pyae Phyo

Erik de Jong

Sen Zhan

Tom Huiskamp

Sumeyra Demir

Ballard Asare-Bediako

Erik Matien

Vladimir Cuk

Dongsheng Yang

Akhtar Hussain Javed

Peter Wouters

Roozbeh Torkzadeh

Anne Roc'h

Marc Kopf

Phuong Nguyen

Koen Kok

Peter van der Wielen

Christina Papadimitriou

Tony Xiang

Rene van Hoppe

Johan Morren

Anouk Hubrechsen

Nikolaos Paterakis

Michail Ampatzis

Sicheng Gong

Tim Slangen

An Nguyen

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Recent Publications

Model validation for voltage dip assessment in future networks

Hybrid quantum-classical multi-cut Benders approach with a power system application

Impact of power supply fluctuation and part load operation on the efficiency of alkaline water electrolysis

Harmonic Current Emission Estimation of Modular Multilevel Converters in MV Charging Stations

A novel comprehensive optimal PMU placement considering practical issues in design and implementation of a wide-area measurement system

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