On November 12, 2025, another contribution to the lecture series “Knowledge creates energy – energy research for the city of tomorrow” took place at Leibniz Universität Hannover. The series in the Science Year Future Energy is organized in cooperation with the Volkshochschule Hannover.
The lecture “Smart grids – keeping the energy supply stable” highlighted the key technical challenges of the energy transition. It was presented by two ForWind scientists:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Lutz Hofmann, Institute for Electrical Energy Systems, and
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens, Institute for Drive Systems and Power Electronics.
The focus was on the question of how an electricity system increasingly dominated by wind and photovoltaic generation can be operated in a stable manner. Hofmann and Mertens explained how power-electronically connected generation plants, modern control and regulation technology and digital IT infrastructures can be networked to create an intelligent, flexible smart grid. Based on current research work, they showed what requirements are placed on the modeling, simulation and grid integration of decentralized systems – and what technical solutions are being tested today.
The event made it clear how important systems engineering research is for the secure operation of a renewable, digitalized energy system and what contributions LUH and ForWind are making to this.
