We are looking for a student for a Master's thesis! Topic: Optimizing the energy consumption within an energy community

Your tasks

Energy communities do not yet fully exploit their full potential. Members are only partially consuming the power produced within their energy community even though flexibility is available. For example, when there is surplus power from a photovoltaics plant of another member, a heat pump can be switched on to feed hot water into a thermal buffer. Your task is to implement a first prototype of an energy community controller where the consuming members directly utilize surplus energy of other members.

Your objectives

• Literature study on energy community controllers
• Development of algorithms to distribute energy within energy communities
• Prototype development for a very up-to-date topic (implementing the exchange over the cloud)
• Comparison and validation in simulation studies

Your interests

• Field of Study: Software Engineering and Management, Digital Engineering, Information and Computer Engineering, etc.
• Programming experience (cloud)
• Ideally with background in control engineering or optimization

Start 2/2025

Your benefits

• Joint supervision of the master’s thesis by BEST and the Institute of Automation and Control
• Integration into a dedicated team with good support
• Perspective of participation in follow-up projects after successful completion
• Financial compensation based on student staff salary scheme

BEST is responsible for the active technical supervision of the master thesis, the scientific supervision is provided by the Institute of Control and Automation Engineering - Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Martin Horn (martin.horn@tugraz.at).

Location: Graz
Start: NOW
Duration: 6 months

We value and promote the diversity of skills of our employees and therefore welcome all applications. BEST aims to increase the proportion of women and expressly encourages qualified women to apply.

Markus Gölles
Tel.: +43 5 02378 - 9208
markus.goelles@best-research.eu

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