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Together with partners, Bayreuth business IT specialists have developed a secure way of exchanging data in the energy system for the German Energy Agency (dena). The report “Fundamentals and significance of data spaces for the energy industry” was published on April 25. The authors are BayBatt member Prof. Dr. Jens Strüker and Dr. Marc-Fabian Körner from the University of Bayreuth.

In order to test the necessary structures for efficient and secure data exchange between all partners in the electricity system, a reference architecture for an energy data space was developed and implemented in the dena-ENDA (ENergy DAta Space) project. This means that a secure virtual space was created in which all participants in a decentralized electricity supply network can exchange data in order to cushion power fluctuations, demand and generation adjustments, i.e. re-dispatch. This is necessary in order to ensure security of supply even under changing framework conditions.

The Future Energy Lab, the pilot and networking laboratory for digital technologies of the German Energy Agency (dena), has implemented a project to establish data rooms in the energy industry in cooperation with ifok GmbH, Bonn Consulting, Fraunhofer FIT and innogence business consulting. Technical issues were clarified and a data room architecture developed in collaboration with the various stakeholders, e.g. distribution network operators, plant operators and service providers. Prof. Dr. Jens Strüker, Professor of Information Systems and Digital Energy Management, and Dr. Marc-Fabian Körner, Postdoc in Information Systems, both at the University of Bayreuth and working for FIT, provided scientific support for the project and wrote the report.

The Bayreuth business IT specialists are working across the board to answer the question of new approaches for a real-time energy economy and thus for effective climate protection in order to make a contribution to the environment and society. Through the realization of data spaces, new fields of application can be opened up and rethought, e.g. to promote the implementation of energy communities, i.e. the optimization and implementation of peer-to-peer energy trading, or to better coordinate the charging processes of electric vehicles with the local electricity mix and load forecasts.

Read the University of Bayreuth's complete press release here.