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.
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: jan.reinkensmeier(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-227, Room: Flx-E
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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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Automatische Generierung von Modellen für Prädiktion, Testen und Monitoring cyber-physischer Systeme
Duration: 2022 - 2025D
Dezentraler Redispatch (DEER): Schnittstellen für die Flexibilitätsbereitstellung
Duration: 2022 - 2025G
Green Agenda - Decarbonization of the Electricity Sector in the Western Balkans
Duration: 2024 - 2025H
Hydrogen for Bremen’s industrial Transformation - Ein Initialimpuls für die Wasserstoff-Hanse
Duration: 2022 - 2026I
Innovative Energy (Efficiency) Service Models for Sector Integration via Blockchain
Duration: 2022 - 2025
Interoperability test platform for components of the energy transition
Duration: 2024 - 2027 J
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Publications
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
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
Danila Valko and Daniel Kudenko; Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence; April / 2025
Matteo Barsanti and Jan Sören Schwarz and Faten Ghali and Selin Yilmaz and Sebastian Lehnhoff and Claudia R. Binder; Energy Research & Social Science; 01 / 2025
Kotthoff, Florian and Muschner, Christoph and Tepe, Deniz and Vogt, Esther and Hülk, Ludwig; SIGENERGY Energy Inform. Rev.; February / 2025
Hasselbring, Wilhelm and Druskat, Stephan and Bernoth, Jan and Betker, Philine and Felderer, Michael and Ferenz, Stephan and Hermann, Ben and Lamprecht, Anna-Lena and Linxweiler, Jan and Prat, Arnau and Rumpe, Bernhard and Schoening-Stierand, Katrin and Yang, Shinhyung; Computing in Science & Engineering; 2025
Aleksandr Berezin, Stephan Balduin, Eric MSP Veith, Thomas Oberließen, Sebastian Peter; ENERGY 2025, The Fifteenth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies; March / 2025
Sergey Sosnovskikh and Danila Valko and Raphael Meyer-Alten; Sustainable Development; February / 2025
