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  4. Energy-efficient Smart Cities

Energy-efficient Smart Cities The ESC group looks at different aspects of digitalisation, which are becoming increasingly indispensable for the creation of energy-efficient districts and cities.

Reducing primary energy consumption and thus CO2 emissions is the central challenge for achieving the political climate targets. The current trend in medium-sized cities such as Oldenburg and rural areas towards increasing self-sufficient electricity supply through photovoltaic (PV) and small combined heat and power plants (CHP plants) is a first contribution to this. In order to fully exploit the potential of this trend, the electricity, heat and electric mobility sectors must be connected at neighbourhood level and the players involved must be connected to each other.

The Energie-efficient Smart Cities group looks at different aspects of digitalisation, which are becoming increasingly indispensable for the creation of energy-efficient districts and cities. These include:

  • Secure and standardised data communications for recording transmission of predominantly energy-related measured values from consumers and generators
  • Conception and development of federal data and service platforms for data processing and the implementation of diverse business models
  • Implementation and testing of algorithms for intelligent load and procurement management for decentralized generators and consumers at the neighbourhood level

The group's flagship project is the 'Energetic Neighbourhood Quarter at Oldenburg Air Base' project, in which the practical implementation of an energy-optimised quarter within the scope of the real laboratory at Oldenburg Air Base is aimed at.

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Dr. Ing. Sven Rosinger
Dr. Ing.
Sven Rosinger

Persons

B

Jan-Henrik Bruhn

E-Mail: jan-henrik.bruhn(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-404, Room: Flx-E

H

Alexander Hill

E-Mail: Alexander.hill(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-164, Room: Flx-E

K

Pranay Kasturi

E-Mail: pranay.kasturi(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-296

L

Ekaterina Lesnyak

E-Mail: ekaterina.lesnyak(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-750, Room: Flx-E

M

Markus Megnet

E-Mail: markus.megnet(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-579, Room: Flx-E

P

Dr.-Ing. Fernando Andres Penaherrera Vaca

E-Mail: fernandoandres.penaherreravaca(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-720, Room: I6-O09

Christian Pieper

E-Mail: christian.pieper(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-239, Room: Flx-E

R

Dr. Ing. Sven Rosinger

E-Mail: sven.rosinger(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-242, Room: Flx-E

V

Danila Valko

E-Mail: danila.valko(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-274

Projects

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BMIL

Blockchain Machine ID Ledger

Duration: 2020 - 2021

E

ENaQ

Energetisches Nachbarschaftsquartier Fliegerhorst Oldenburg (sorry - only available in german)

Duration: 2018 - 2023

M

M2DC

Modular Microserver DataCentre

Duration: 2016 - 2019

Mobilitätswende

Mobilitätswende „spielerisch“ beschleunigen

Duration: 2021 - 2022

O

OpenEnergyTwin

Duration: 2024 - 2026

T

TEN.efzn

Transformation des Energiesystems Niedersachsen

Duration: 2024 - 2029

W

WWNW

WärmewendeNordwest – Digitalisierung zur Umsetzung von Wärmewende- und Mehrwertanwendungen für Gebäude, Campus, Quartiere und Kommunen im Nordwesten

Duration: 2021 - 2026

Z

ZLE

Zukunftslabor Digitalisierung Energie

Duration: 2019 - 2025

Publications

2025

Application of Matrix Completion Techniques on LCA Data for Different Recycling Scenarios for Parts of Professional Data Centers

Dawel, Lisa and Schmedes, Felix and Fernando Penaherrera and Pehlken, Alexandra; Procedia CIRP; 2025

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Cultural Differences and Interdependencies in Climate Change Mitigation Efforts and Their Psychological Antecedents Across 63 Countries

Danila Valko and Kristin Thompson; Sustainable Development; November / 2025

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Enhancing Software Sustainability: Transferring Open-Science Solutions from ZLE to NFDI4Energy

Manzek, Luca and Niemann, Laura and Steinert, Alexandro and Wagner, Henrik and Werth, Oliver and Penaherrera, Fernando and Lier, Sarah K.; February / 2025

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Hybrid pathfinding optimization for the Lightning Network with Reinforcement Learning

Danila Valko and Daniel Kudenko; Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence; April / 2025

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Implementation of operational flexibility for the control of the smart grid: evaluation of an exemplary residential district in Germany

Fernando Peñaherrera V.; Jan Philipp Hörding; Sarah Fayed; Henrik Wagner; Astrid Nieße; 23rd Wind & Solar Integration Workshop (WIW 2024); März / 2025

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Mix Matters: Technical Evaluation of a Carbon-Aware Power Plant Operation Strategy for an Industrial Area in Bremen

Danila Valko and Sharaf Alsharif and Sven Rosinger; European Simulation and Modelling Conference 2025 (ESM 2025); October / 2025

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Next Generation Grid Control: A Modular and Scalable Event-Driven Architecture for Monitoring and Control of Power Systems

Brand, Michael and Blümel, Kersten and Bruhn, Jan-Henrik and Fatemi, Armin and Huxoll, Nils and Lehnhoff, Sebastian; 2025 IEEE Kiel PowerTech; 2025

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OpenEnergyTwin-Open, Interoperable and User-Centered Platform for Sustainable Energy Systems

Brand, Michael and Bruhn, Jan Henrik and Huxoll, Nils and Schmidtke, Florian and Wirtz, Nikolaus and Andres, Michael and Fatemi, Armin and Selimaj, Antigona and Ulbig, Andreas and Lehnhoff, Sebastian; ETG Kongress 2025; Voller Energie-heute und morgen.; 2025

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Predictors of Sustainable Investment Motivation: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach

Sergey Sosnovskikh and Danila Valko and Raphael Meyer-Alten; Sustainable Development; February / 2025

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Simulation of a Photovoltaic-Thermal (PV-T) Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) System for Building Thermal Demands

Kasturi, Pranay and Torio, Herena and Schwarz, Jan Soeren; Proceedings of EuroSun 2024; 2025

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