MMB & DFT 2016

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Workshop on “E-mobility and smart grids: challenges and opportunities”

 April 4th, 2016, Münster, Germany, Workshop Website: http://www.mmb2016.de/emobility

Topic

The workshop discusses challenges and opportunities that arise from the embedding of e-mobility and smart grids in an inter- and transdisciplinary setting — an embedding which will become crucial but non-trivial to achieve, as e-mobility becomes increasingly commonplace and fully adopted by the public.

The workshop will discuss regulations and concepts that are able to ensure a successful integration of charging infrastructure for e-mobility and smart grids. The workshop is especially concerned with the long-term effects of a large population of e-cars for the power grid. However, we also aim at discussing appropriate measures to increase user acceptance of e-cars and how known mobility patterns of users can help to reduce the impact on the grid.

Program

The program will consist of a variety of invited presentations both from industry and academia that focus on different aspects of e-mobility and smart grids, as well as of open discussions, covering the following aspects:

  • mobility (specifically, assessment and analysis of preferences and needs)
  • consumer acceptance
  • human machine interfaces,
  • load-balancing,
  • charging and service infrastructures
  • battery technology and battery modelling.

The workshop is organized in cooperation with the conference MMB 2016. Please register via the conference registration at http://www.mmb2016.de/page/registration. You are also welcome to join the conference reception on Monday evening, which will take place at the ‘Akademische Bieranstalt - Blaues Haus’.

Confirmed speakers

  • Prof. Dr. Johan Hurink (Uinversity of Twente, NL)
  • Dr. Stephan Hell (RWE Effizienz)
  • Dr. Christoph Stasch (52°North)
  • Matthias Löchte (Stadtwerke Münster)

Organizers