EBERHARD WAFFENSCHMIDT

Community Battery Storage

Abstract

Neighbourhood storage systems can play an important role in the future. They can be used in a residential area to balance volatile electricity generation from PV systems and energy consumption. Mutually used storage systems have technical and financial advantages compared to individual solutions. However, billing and the necessary measurement and control technology may be costly, as a funded project of the TH-Köln shows.

Biography

Eberhard Waffenschmidt (Prof. Dr. Ing.) received the degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree with RWTH Technical University, Aachen, Germany. From 1995 to 2011, he was employed at Philips Research, Aachen, Germany, finally as senior scientist. Since 2011, he is Professor of Electrical Power Grids at TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany. There, he participates the Cologne-Institute for Renewable Energy (CIRE). He is IEEE-member since 2005, meanwhile Senior Member. He is currently Chairman of the Solarenergie-Förderverein Deutschland e.V. (SFV, Society to Promote Solar Energy Germany), Aachen, Germany. His current research interests include identifying and removing obstacles on the way to a 100% use of renewable energy.