Energy Informatics

Christoph Goebel (), Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Victor Razo, Christoph Doblander, Jose Rivera, Jens Ilg, Christoph Flath, Hartmut Schmeck, Christof Weinhardt, Daniel Pathmaperuma, Hans-Jürgen Appelrath, Michael Sonnenschein, Sebastian Lehnhoff, Oliver Kramer, Thorsten Staake, Elgar Fleisch, Dirk Neumann, Jens Strüker, Koray Erek, Rüdiger Zarnekow, Holger Ziekow and Jörg Lässig

Business & Information Systems Engineering: The International Journal of WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, 2014, vol. 6, issue 1, 25-31

Abstract: Due to the increasing importance of producing and consuming energy more sustainably, Energy Informatics (EI) has evolved into a thriving research area within the CS/IS community. The article attempts to characterize this young and dynamic field of research by describing current EI research topics and methods and provides an outlook of how the field might evolve in the future. It is shown that two general research questions have received the most attention so far and are likely to dominate the EI research agenda in the coming years: How to leverage information and communication technology (ICT) to (1) improve energy efficiency, and (2) to integrate decentralized renewable energy sources into the power grid. Selected EI streams are reviewed, highlighting how the respective research questions are broken down into specific research projects and how EI researchers have made contributions based on their individual academic background. Copyright Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014

Keywords: Renewable energy; Energy efficiency; Power-proportionality; Cyber-physical systems; Smart energy-saving systems; Smart grids; Energy informatics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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