CHAIR ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS

AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

As part of an excursion, the LENA Chair and students visited the Rothensee waste-to-energy plant in Magdeburg on January 21, 2025. The modern plant converts around one million tons of household waste and similar waste into electricity and district heating every year, making it one of the largest of its kind in Germany.

The LENA Chair had the opportunity to visit Koblenz university of applied sciences. Possibilities for future cooperation were discussed on site.

The 13th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Asia Conference (IEEE PES ISGT 2024), sponsored by the IEEE Power & Energy Society, took place from 10 to 13 November 2024 in Bengaluru, India. Eric Glende was there for the LENA Chair and presented a scientific paper. The conference provided a platform for exchange between representatives from energy supply companies, industry, academia and research to discuss challenges of decarbonisation and integration of renewable energy in future power grids.

On 7 August 2024, M.Sc. Mauro Dos Santos Ortiz successfully defended his dissertation. This was concluded with the traditional walk to the Otto von Guericke monument at the Alter Markt. This was the start of the so-called ‘Cotutelle’ procedure for the LENA Chair. This means that the doctoral candidate is supervised on the same thesis at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria and at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg and completes their doctorate at both locations in an integrated doctoral procedure.

The 16th Seminar on Power Electronics and Control (SEPOC 2024) took place from 20 to 23 October 2024 at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) in Brazil and was represented by Anuraq Sharma, a master's student of the LENA Chair. This hybrid format conference focuses on advances in power electronics and control, with the 2024 theme being ‘Smart Energy Systems for the Future: Optimising Control and Efficiency’, which focuses on innovations in control systems, smart grids and energy efficiency.