RWTH Aachen University focuses on advanced control methods for power systems, distribution grid monitoring, energy flexibility management, and smart grid automation. Their expertise lies in energy management systems, data analytics, simulation methods, and high-performance computing.

Task Areas

RWTH Aachen University contributes to NFDI4Energy in the following task areas:

• Task Area 3: Transparency and involvement of the energy-related industry, leading the development of a process to involve industry partners and collect substitute data.
• Task Area 5: Simulation in interdisciplinary energy research, contributing to energy simulation software and methods, and extending the co-simulation framework VILLAS.
• Task Area 6: Use case development for distributed simulation in distributed energy systems, particularly focusing on energy lab and simulation coupling.

Involvement

RWTH Aachen University is part of several other NFDI consortia, including

• NFDI4Cat,
• NFDI4Chem,
• NFDI4Ing,
• DAPHNE4NFDI,
• FAIRmat,
• NFDI4DataScience,
• NFDI4Earth,
• NFDI4Microbiota,
• NFDI4MatWerk,
• PUNCH4NFDI,
• Base4NFDI,
• NFDI4Objects, and
• NFDIxCS.