CHAIR ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS

AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

The NEIS 2024 Conference on Sustainable Energy Supply and Energy Storage Systems was held on September 16-17, 2024, at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany. The LENA chair was represented by Christoph Sauer and João Pedro Cipriani.

This year's UPEC conference took place from September 2^nd to 6^th, 2024 at Cardiff University in Great Britain. It was the 59^th edition of the international Universities Power Engineering Conference. The LENA chair was represented by Renata Lautert and Maja Maletz.

The IEEE PES General Meeting is one of the flagship conferences of electrical power engineering and brings together thousands of electrical engineers and scientists from all over the world every year. The conference is thus an international forum for the promotion, exchange and discussion of various topics and developments in the field of electrical power engineering. This year's General Meeting took place from 22 to 25 July in Seattle, Washington.

On Friday, 14.06.2024, M.Sc. Sebastian Helm defended his dissertation entitled  "Optimiertes Lademanagement von E-Kfz zur Spannungsstabilisierung im Niederspannungsnetz".

On June 3, 2024, students and employees of Otto von Guericke University visited Avacon Netz GmbH in Salzgitter. They were given exciting insights into the day-to-day work of the grid control center and listened to specialist presentations on “Planning and construction of special grids” and “Secondary technology”. The group also visited the Helmstedt substation. They were shown the operations building, the outdoor facilities and a switching process demonstration from the grid control center.