The “Buildings and Districts” department develops and demonstrates innovative low-carbon and energy efficient solutions for buildings and (city) districts. In future energy systems, the energy supply for electricity, heating and cooling will be characterized by smaller, decentralized energy sources.

The Energy Grids department develops and applies models for the simulation and optimization of multi-physical energy infrastructures. We focus on electricity, gas and heating grids as well as their information and communication structures.

The department networks and complex systems develops mathematical methods and tools for a stable operation of the electric power grids. One focus of our work is the stability and robustness against outages and equipment failures.

The Control Solutions department focuses on the development of methods and algorithms for the control of power systems and their components. The focus is on application-oriented methods that can operate in real time, are scalable and are suitable for the operation of decentralized systems.

In the Optimization and Machine Learning department, we apply and develop numerical optimization methods and algorithms for the design and operation of complex energy systems.