Energy and Critical Infrastructures
Sustainable Company Management
Energy and Critical Infrastructures
Sustainability is playing an increasingly important part in modern strategic corporate governance. Where economic objectives and ecological goals coincide, investments can be made which reduce resource and energy needs of companies and residential customers, and adjust power consumption to fluctuating electricity supply.
intelligent & flexible
Demand Side Management
We particularly focus on flexibility in electricity consumption, i.e., the dynamic adaptation of demand to supply – also known as demand side management (refer e.g. to our ‘SynErgie’ project where we contribute important guides for the German energy transition). For this transition to be successful, IT has to provide solutions for plethora of applications ranging from individual power consumers to intelligent electricity grids and markets.
Interdisciplinary Team
Our activity
Our interdisciplinary team also develops IT-based business models, especially for smart grids, smart factories, smart homes, smart mobility solutions, and smart markets. These models include important insights from user behavior and acceptance analysis, and incorporate results from profitability and sustainability evaluation.
Last but not least, we specialize in big data analytics of residential HVAC demand.
Our research thus goes beyond reducing the environmental footprint of IT itself (“Green IT”). Rather, we examine how smart use of IT can empower companies and residential customers to use (energy) resources more efficiently and sustainably (“Green IS”). This area of research is most often referred to as “energy informatics”.
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Unsere Tätigkeit
Industrial demand-side flexibility : A key element of a just energy transition and industrial developmentin: Applied Energy, 2020 | Heffron, RaphaelKörner, Marc-FabianWagner, JonathanWeibelzahl, MartinFridgen, Gilbert | |
The influence of electric vehicle charging strategies on the sizing of electrical energy storage systems in charging hub microgridsin: Applied Energy, 2020 | Haupt, LeonSchöpf, MichaelWederhake, LarsWeibelzahl, Martin | |
The search for the perfect match : Aligning power-trading products to the energy transitionin: Energy Policy, 2020 | Fridgen, GilbertMichaelis, AnneRinck, MaximilianSchöpf, MichaelWeibelzahl, Martin | |
The "Insurance Effect" : How to increase the Investment Amount in Green Buildings ; A Model-Based Approach to reduce the Energy Efficiency Gapin: Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, 2018 | Buhl, Hans UlrichGaugler, TobiasMette, Philipp | |
Flexible IT-platform to Synchronize Energy Demands with Volatile Marketspresented at: 50th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, Taichung City, Taiwan, 2017 | Bauer, DennisAbele, EberhardAhrens, RaphaelBauernhansl, ThomasFridgen, GilbertJarke, MatthiasKeller, FabianKeller, RobertPullmann, JaroslavReiners, RenéReinhart, GuntherSchel, DanielSchöpf, MichaelSchraml, PhilippSimon, Peter | |
Shifting Load through Space : the Economics of Spatial Demand Side Management Using Distributed Data Centersin: Energy Policy, 2017 | Fridgen, GilbertKeller, RobertThimmel, MarkusWederhake, Lars | |
Estimating the benefits of cooperation in a residential microgrid : a data-driven approachin: Applied Energy, 2016 | Fridgen, GilbertRieger, AlexanderThummert, RobertKahlen, MichaKetter, Wolfgang | |
Providing Utility to Utilities : the Value of Information Systems Enabled Flexibility in Electricity Consumptionin: Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2016 | Fridgen, GilbertHäfner, LukasKönig, ChristianSachs, Thomas | |
Energy Cooperatives as an Application of Microgrids : Multi-Criteria Investment Decision Supportpresented at: 36th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Fort Worth, USA, 2015 | Fridgen, GilbertGründler, AnnaRusic, Milos | |
The Value of Information Exchange in Electric Vehicle Chargingpresented at: 35th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Auckland, New Zealand, 2014 | Fridgen, GilbertMette, PhilippThimmel, Markus |
In addition to projects with industry partners, the research team Energy and Critical Infrastructures is engaged in multiple activities that aim to foster knowledge exchange with fellow scholars as well as among scholars and practitioners. Selected activities are:
- Environmental Commissioner of the University of Bayreuth (appointed by president Prof. Leible)
- member of the Programme Commission of the E.ON Stipendienfonds (Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft)
- series of lectures „Blockchain Technologie und Smart Contracts“ organized together with „Forschungsstelle für Verbraucherrecht“ (FfV), Bayreuth: 2017
- Programme Chair of Energy Informatics & Management as part of the Erasmus Energy Forum, Rotterdam: 2015, 2016
- co-organizer of the 11th workshop of junior professorships and post-docs in the field of Business and Information Systems Engineering, Augsburg, 2011
- editor of the Special Issue on “Green Information Systems & Technologies: This Generation and Beyond” for the journal Information Systems Frontiers, 2013
- Track Chair “Green Information Systems” at 21st European Conference on Information Systems, Utrecht, 2013
- Minitrack Chair “Information Systems for Sustainable Business Practices and their Organizational Adoption” at 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Seattle, 2012
- program committee/Associate Editor:
– International Conference on Information Systems: 2013-2016
– European Conference on Information Systems: 2012, 2014-2016
– Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik: 2015, 2017
– Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik: 2012-2018
– Americas Conference on Information Systems: 2011
– International Conference on Electronic Commerce: 2011, 2012
– Energy Informatics & Management: 2017
– Smart Europe: 2016
- Reviewer:
– IS Journal Marketplace: Seit 2015
– Journals: i.a. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Business & Information Systems Engineering, Electronic Markets, Energy Policy, IEEE Systems Journal, Information Systems Frontiers, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Information Technology
– Conferences: u.a. International/European/American Conferences on Information Systems, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST), Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik
– Institutions: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria (AQ Austria)
You will find further information on the following pages:
- University of Augsburg:
- Energy and Critical Infrastructures (Bachelorseminar)
- Energy and Critical Infrastructures (Masterseminar)
- Sustainable management (Lecture Master)
- University of Bayreuth:
- Energy industry in times of digitalisation
- Elite Graduate Program Finance & Information Management
