Prof. Sebastian Lehnhoff of University of Oldenburg, Germany

How ICT engineering requirements supports roll-out of new services and the development of the Smart Grid.

Biography: Sebastian Lehnhoff is a Director in the Energy Research and Development Division of the OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology and a Professor for Energy Information Systems at the University of Oldenburg. He received his diploma degree in Computer Science in 2005 and his PhD in 2009 from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. His research interests include but are not limited to safety critical and real-time operation and services in Smart Grids focussing on distributed control.

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Prof. Christian Rehtanz of TU Dortmund University, Germany

What is the current state of the Energiewende and where still more work is needed? A snapshot of current R&D initiatives in the German Power Systems community.

Biography: Prof. Christian Rehtanz received his diploma degree in Electrical Engineering in 1994 and his Ph.D. in 1997 at the Univ. of Dortmund, Germany. From 2000 he was with ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland and from 2003 Head of Technology for the global ABB business area Power Systems. From 2005 he was Director of ABB Corporate Research in China. Since 2007 he is the head of the Institute for Energy Systems, Energy Efficiency and Energy Economics, TU Dortmund University, Germany. Rehtanz’ research activities in the field of electrical power systems and power economics include technologies for network enhancement and congestion relief like stability assessment, wide-area monitoring, protection, and coordinated network-control as well as integration and control of distributed generation and storages.

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Prof. Sebastian Lehnhoff of University of Oldenburg, Germany

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Prof. Christian Rehtanz of TU Dortmund University, Germany

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