Energy
The world-wide CO2 emissions have to be massively reduced and the dependency on fossil fuels has to be decreased. Solving climate problems is one of the central responsibilities of the society and economy of our time. Three approaches are pursued: application of renewable energy sources, conservation of energy and increasing energy efficiency.
However, how can the energy supply be restructured by new information technologies so that the fluctuating renewable energy sources, which are generally not demand-oriented, are able to support a reliable power supply? How can a large number of highly efficient combined heat and power plants (CHP) be integrated into energy management? How can the constantly increasing energy consumption of IT itself be reduced?
A second challenge faces us from our political guidelines: The formerly required energy monopolies for uninterrupted service are questioned today and are increasingly split apart by legislation. This entails new business processes and stakeholders (e.g. using electronic meters). The information and communications technologies (ICT) help to find answers for these challenges of the future and to suitably implement them.
OFFIS as designer
For many years OFFIS has been researching and developing ICT-based concepts and prototypical systems for the energy industry and energy efficiency. Thus, for example decisive contributions were made to the IT integration of decentralized generator units into an energy management, for the energy efficiency in the IT from the computer chip to the computer center and for the management of large IT system landscapes in the energy supply which conform with the standards. In the forefront of all technological work is the contribution to the social and financial challenges of the energy questions of tomorrow. With these interdisciplinary questions we use our network of partners from other disciplines as well as our long-standing cooperation with manufacturers and users.
Concrete applications
We have classified our concrete applications of the division Energy's ICT-Research and -Development in the following R&D-Groups:
- Data Integration and Processing
- Distributed Artificial Intelligence
- Energy-efficient Smart Cities
- Power Systems Intelligence
- Resilient Monitoring and Control
- Standardized Systems Engineering and Assessment
- Smart Grid Testing
Persons 
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E-Mail: sharaf.aldin.alsharif(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-748, Room: Flx-E
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E-Mail: benjamin.giesers(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-747, Room: Flx-E
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E-Mail: stefanie.holly(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-732, Room: Flx-E
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E-Mail: jirapa.kamsamrong(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-233, Room: E85
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E-Mail: sebastian.lehnhoff(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-240, Room: O50
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E-Mail: jorge.marx-gomez(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 798 - 4470, Room: A4-3-315
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E-Mail: fernandoandres.penaherreravaca(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-720, Room: I6-O09
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E-Mail: martin.troeschel(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-150, Room: Flx-E
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Projects
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AC4DC - Adaptive Computing for Green Data Centers: Raise of energy efficiency through intelligent load balancing and infrastructure management, from the distributor to the user
Duration: 2011 - 2014
Automatische Generierung von Modellen für Prädiktion, Testen und Monitoring cyber-physischer Systeme
Duration: 2022 - 2025
Data-Warehouse-System for sensor data from the Offshore Windparc alpha ventus
Duration: 2007 - 2015 B
Betriebliche Informationssysteme: Grid-basierte Integration und Orchestrierung (Sorry - this page is only available in German.)
Duration: 2007 - 2010
Automatischer Download und Analyse von XML-basierten Lagerbestandsdaten eines Kunden durch den Lieferanten (Sorry - this page is only available in German.)
Duration: 2001 - 2002
Untersuchung von XML-Standardaustauschformaten (Sorry - this page is only available in German.)
Duration: 2010 - 2010 Publications
2025
Heess, Paula and Holly, Stefanie and Körner, Marc-Fabian and Nieße, Astrid and Radtke, Malin and Schick, Leo and Stark, Sanja and Strüker, Jens and Zwede, Till; Energy Informatics; February / 2025
Paul Hendrik Tiemann, Marvin Nebel-Wenner, Stefanie Holly, Emilie Frost and Astrid Nieße; Applied Energy; 2025
Ferenz, Stephan and Miller, Bernhard and Busse, Christian and Demandt, Évariste and Eberl, Franziska and Ebert, Barbara and Fluck, Juliane and Förstner, Konrad U. and Goedicke, Michael and Hennig, Christine and Jagusch, Gerald Wolfgang and Jansen, Lukas and Keller, Christin and Krieger, Ulrich and Rettberg, Najla and Schrade, Torsten and Seegert, Jörg and von Suchodoletz, Dirk and Trippel, Thorsten and Weidtkamp-Peters, Stefanie; April / 2025
Sharaf Alsharif, Danila Valko, Jelke Wibbeke and Sebastian Lehnhoff; IEEE PowerTech 2025; 2025
Radtke, Malin and Frost, Emilie and Nieße, Astrid and Lehnhoff, Sebastian; IEEE Access; 2025
Julia Köhlke, Jad Asswad, Viktor Dmitriyev; 14. BUIS-Tage 2025; Juni / 2025
Schwarz, Jan Sören and Steinert, Alexandro and Fuentes Grau, Laura and Pan, Zhiyu and Schmurr, Philipp and Liu, Nan and Seiwerth, Corinna and Qussous, Ramiz and German, Reinhard and Hagenmeyer, Veit and Lehnhoff, Sebastian and Monti, Antonello and Nieße, Astrid and Weidlich, Anke and Hülk, Ludwig; 2nd Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) , Aachen, Germany, 26-28 August 2025 (Session 4. ES) ; August / 2025
Sharaf Alsharif, Danila Valko, Eric MSP Veith; CIRED 2025, 28th Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution; 2025
Manzek, Luca and Niemann, Laura and Steinert, Alexandro and Wagner, Henrik and Werth, Oliver and Penaherrera, Fernando and Lier, Sarah K.; February / 2025
Dumitrescu, Roman and Riedel, Oliver and Henke, Michael and Metternich, Joachim and Ihlenfeldt, Steffen and Koldewey, Christian; 2025
