Watt d’Or for Efficient and Sustainable Power Supply with Photovoltaics
Lukas Ortmann, Saverio Bolognani, and Florian Dörfler, along with the electricity supplier AEW Energie AG, have won the 2024 Watt d'Or award in the Energy Technologies cateogrie, for efficient and sustainable power supply with photovoltaics.
Lukas Ortmann, Saverio Bolognani, and Florian Dörfler, have been awarded the Watt d’Or for developing an algorithm, together with associated online feedback optimisation software, that can be used to solve an optimisation problem in the electricity grid. Specifically, they implemented their algorithm in the real-world environment of the AEW Energie electricity grid in a way that meant photovoltaic systems not only supply renewable electricity, but at the same time help to optimise reactive power.
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