PowerWeb Institute
The electrical power infrastructure is rapidly changing due to the growing use of distributed renewable sources and is becoming increasingly complex to manage. Today's electricity market requires an infrastructure for flexible, reconfigurable smart grids that can facilitate the producer and consumer in their changing needs. Future electricity grids ask for a multi-layered ICT approach in order to become robust. And need to be embedded in society as a socio-technological system in itself.
TU Delft PowerWeb Institute
In search of integral solutions for this changing energy market, three faculties at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) joined forces in the PowerWeb initiative. Our view on smart grids research comprises the integrated study of the underlying physical systems (hardware), the design of smart energy management systems (software), and the study of smart grids in relation to their societal and economic environment (peopleware). This will allow us to model and design ICT systems that integrate energy production and consumption services in a robust way.
The TU Delft PowerWeb Institute is one of energy pillars of the TU Delft Energy Initiative.
News and events
11 August 2024
NWA Grant for research into reorganization of the Dutch energy market
To ensure that we have enough energy available at all times, the organization of the energy sector needs to change. TU Delft researchers Laurens de Vries, Kenneth Bruninx, Aad Correlje and Mathijs de Weerdt will be working on a project that revises the Dutch energy market for a CO2-neutral energy system. The project has acquired an NWA grant.
29 July 2024
RTL Nieuws: Apparaten in huis eerder stuk door te hoge spanning op stroomnet
"Elektrische apparatuur heeft sowieso te lijden onder de hoge voltages", zegt Pavol Bauer, hoogleraar Energieconversie en -opslag aan de TU Delft. Hij doet onderzoek naar de levensduur en betrouwbaarheid van elektrische componenten zoals schakelaars in bijvoorbeeld tv's en vaatwassers.
17 July 2024
Results of initiatives on fossil industry cooperation
27 May 2024
Charge faster and drive further
Team of TU Delft researchers has been optimizing the structure of car battery electrodes. Read the full story in the publication in Cell Reports Physical Science. “A phase inversion strategy for low-tortuosity and ultrahigh-mass-loading nickel-rich layered oxide electrodes”
23 May 2024
Protecting a Sustainable Future
For Marjan Popov it is clear: our society is at a crossroads. “We are undertaking perhaps the biggest engineering challenge of our time – we are radically changing the electricity grids.” According to him, the complexity of the electricity grids is comparable to the human body. “Similar to how patients are treated, in terms of taking care of their health, we should always monitor, control, and protect the electricity grids. I make this comparison because both the human body and the electricity grid are vulnerable to many different diseases, or disturbances, and some of them can have serious consequences. Therefore, undertaking comprehensive security and safety measures is an essential part of our energy transition.”
