ETH Zurich :
Computer Science :
Pervasive Computing :
Distributed Systems :
Education :
SmartEnergy HS2018
Smart Energy
Prof. Dr. Friedemann Mattern
Dr. Verena Tiefenbeck
Dr. Vlad Coroama
Where and when:
Wednesday, 13:15 – 16:00,
(Link to course catalogue)
Content
The lecture covers the role of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) for sustainable energy usage. It starts out with a general background on the current landscape of energy generation and consumption and outlines concepts of the emerging smart grid. The lecture combines technologies from ubiquitous computing and traditional ICT with socio-economic and behavioral aspects and illustrates them with examples from actual applications..inf.ethz.ch
Specific topics include:
- Background on energy generation and consumption; characteristics, potential, and limitations of renewable energy sources.
- Introduction to energy economics.
- Smart grid and smart metering infrastructures, virtual power plants, security challenges.
- Demand management and home automation using ubiquitous computing technologies.
- Changing consumer behavior with smart ICT.
- Benefits and challenges of a smart energy system.
- Smart heating, electric mobility.
Goals
Participants become familiar with the diverse challenges related to sustainable energy usage, understand the principles of a smart grid infrastructure and its applications, know the role of ubiquitous computing technologies, can explain the challenges regarding security and privacy, can reflect on the basic cues to induce changes in consumer behavior, develop a general understanding of the effects of a smart grid infrastructure on energy efficiency. Participants will apply the learnings to two course-accompanying projects, which include both programming and data analysis. The lecture further includes interactive exercises, case studies and practical examples.
Projects and Grading
The lecture will also include smaller interactive exercises as well as two larger projects. The first, larger project will start in the 2nd week of the semester and run until the 9th week; the second, smaller project will last for the remaining 4-5 weeks of the semester. They both represent compulsory continuous performance assessment tasks (i.e., ‘obligatorische Leistungselemente’), and are awarded grades that count proportionally towards the total course-unit grade. Not taking part in either or both of the projects yields a grade of 1.0 for the project(s) in question.
Overall grading: 20% for the first practical group project; 10% for the second project; 70% oral exam.
Literature
- Friedemann Mattern, Thorsten Staake, Markus Weiss
ICT for Green - How Computers Can Help Us to Conserve Energy.
Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking (e-Energy), ACM, pp. 1-10, April 2010.
- David MacKay
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air.
Free online book, UIT Cambridge, UK, December 2008.
- International Energy Agency
Gadgets and Gigawatts - Policies for Energy Efficient Electronics.
Free online book, 2009.
- Ingo Stadler
Power Grid Balancing of Energy Systems With High Renewable Energy Penetration by Demand Response
Utilities Policy, Volume 16, Issue 2, pp. 90–98, June 2008.
- Colin McKerracher, Jacopo Torriti
Energy Consumption Feedback in Perspective: Integrating Australian Data to Meta-Analyses on In-Home Displays
Energy Efficiency, Volume 6, Issue 2, pp. 387-405, May 2013.
- Hunt Allcott, Sendhil Mullainathan
Behavior and Energy Policy
Science, Vol. 327, no. 5970, pp. 1204-1205, March 2010.
- Jessica M. Nolan, P. Wesley Schultz, Robert B. Cialdini, Noah J. Goldstein, Vladas Griskevicius
Normative social influence is underdetected
Personality and Sociol Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 913-923, July 2008.
- Hans-Jürgen Appelrath, Henning Kagermann, Christoph Mayer (Eds.)
Future Energy Grid. Migration to the Internet of Energy
acatech STUDY, 2012.
- Therese Peffer, Marco Pritoni, Alan Meier, Cecilia Aragon, Daniel Perry
How people use thermostats in homes: A review
Building and Environment, Vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 2529-2541, June 2011.
- Jesse Jenkins, Ted Nordhaus, Michael Shellenberger
Energy emergence: Rebound and backfire as emergent phenomena
Breakthrough Institute, February 2011.
- Kenneth Gillingham, Matthew J. Kotchen, David S. Rapson, Gernot Wagner
Energy policy: The rebound effect is overplayed
Nature, Vol. 493, pp. 475-476, January 2013.
Learning Material
Lecture |
Date |
Slides |
Content |
1 |
19.09.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-1.pdf
SmartEnergy-Lecture_Projects-Intro.pdf
|
Introduction: Energy and Electricity, Energy Usage |
2 |
26.09.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-2.pdf
Project #1: Description.pdf
Project #1: Presentation.pdf
Project #1: Training data set
Android Intro.pdf
Android Samples.zip
|
World Energy Demand, Presentation 1st Project, Android Introduction |
Matlab
3 |
03.10.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-3.pdf
|
Electricity Production and Storage |
4 |
10.10.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-4-1.pdf
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-4-2.pdf
|
Electricity Grid, Smart Grid |
5 |
17.10.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-5-1.pdf
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-5-2.pdf
|
Smart Meters, Smart Metering for Energy Conservation |
6 |
24.10.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-6.pdf
|
ICT for Behavior Change |
7 |
31.10.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-7-1.pdf
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-7-2.pdf
|
Energy Costs and Economics, Demand Response (part 1) |
8 |
07.11.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-8.pdf
|
Demand Response (part 2), Smart Heating (part 1) |
9 |
14.11.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-9.pdf
Project #2: Description.pdf
Project #2: Smart Heating Simulation and HH Data
|
Student Presentations Project 1, Smart Heating (part 2), Description 2nd Project |
10 |
21.11.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-10.pdf
|
Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), Smart Grid Security |
11 |
28.11.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-11.pdf
|
ICT Abatement Potential, Rebound Effects |
12 |
05.12.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-12.pdf
|
ICT Energy Consumption |
13 |
12.12.2018 |
SmartEnergy-Lecture-18-13.pdf
|
Electric Vehicles |
14 |
19.12.2018 |
|
Student Presentations Project 2 |
Contact
If you have questions regarding the lecture, please contact Vlad Coroama.
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