The following table lists the conference program. A pdf version of the program is also available: iseso_program2018.pdf.
| Day 1 | 10th of October, 2018 |
| 09:30 | Registration & welcome coffee |
| 10:15 | Opening (Thomas Leibfried) |
| 10:30 | Keynote: (Chair: Thomas Leibfried) |
| Modelling societal and governance drivers within an techno-economic energy systems context | |
| Professor Neil Strachan, Director of the University College London UCL Energy Institute | |
| 1st Session: | Planning and operation of distribution grids (Chair: Michael Suriyah) |
| 11:30 | Cost optimal design of ZENs energy system |
| Dimitri Pinel, NTNU Trondheim | |
| 12:00 | Dimensioning of battery storage as temporary equipment during grid reinforcement caused by electric vehicles |
| Lukas Held, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (IEH) | |
| 12:30 | Lunch break & networking |
| 2nd Session: | Demand response (Chair: Armin Ardone) |
| 13:30 | A discussion of mixed integer linear programming models of thermostatic loads in demand response |
| Vahid Rasouli, INESC Coimbra | |
| 14:00 | Modelling interactions between market power and demand response |
| Mel Devine, University College Dublin | |
| 14:30 | Weighted fair queuing as a scheduling algorithm for deferrable loads in smart grids improving distress distibution over a greedy strategy |
| Tuncer Haslak, FAU Erlangen | |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 3rd Session: | Optimal power flow 1 (Chair: Vincent Heuveline) |
| 15:30 | Policy optimization for optimal power flow under uncertainty |
| Tillmann Mühlpfordt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (IAI) | |
| 16:00 | Distributed optimal power flow – feasibility vs. optimality |
| Alexander Engelmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (IAI) | |
| 16:30 | ADMM based decoupling techniques for unit commitment problems considering grid restrictions |
| Viktor Slednev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (IIP) | |
| 17:00 | End of the first conference day |
| 17:15 | Guided city tour |
| 19:00 | Dinner & networking |
| Day 2 | 11th of October, 2018 |
| 4th Session: | Energy system integration (Chair: Valentin Bertsch) |
| 08:30 | A green copper concept: on the design of a full-renewable energy supply for its production |
| Simón Moreno Leiva, Stuttgart University | |
| 09:00 | Effects of power changes on the gas network / Optimal control of coupled power and gas networks |
| Eike Fokken, Mannheim University | |
| 09:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:00 | Keynote: (Chair: Valentin Bertsch) |
| Modelling challenges for energy systems integration – The good, the bad and the ugly | |
| Mark O’Malley, Chief Scientist, Energy Systems Integration and Senior Research Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA | |
| 5th Session: | Optimal power flow 2 (AC/DC) (Chair: Thomas Leibfried) |
| 11:00 | Security analysis for embedded HVDC in transmission grids |
| Marco Giuntoli, ABB Ladenburg | |
| 11:30 | Decentralized optimal power flow in hybrid AC-DC grids |
| Nico Meyer-Hübner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (IEH) | |
| 12:00 | Lunch break & networking |
| 13:00 | Panel discussion (Chair: Wolf Fichtner, Valentin Bertsch) |
| Bridging the gap between mathematical modelling and policy support | |
| Sonja Babrowski (MVV Trading GmbH), Jörg Jasper (EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG), Mark O’Malley (NREL), Neil Strachan (University College London), Ulrich Janischka (TransnetBW GmbH) | |
| 14:00 | Coffee break |
| 6th Session: | Transmission and generation expansion (Chair: Wolf Fichtner) |
| 14:30 | The cost-benefit of transmission expansion in a sector-coupled, highly-renewable European energy scenario |
| Tom Brown, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (IAI) | |
| 15:00 | The performance of planning reserve constraints to deal with demand uncertainty in long-term planning models |
| Tim Mertens, KU Leuven | |
| 15:30 | Generation and transmission expansion in Uganda: The cost of minimising sub-national energy inequalities |
| Peter Wilson, University of Bath | |
| 16:00 | Summary & closing (Wolf Fichtner) |