Publications · 24. March 2025
The research article “Estimation of Energy Efficiency of Heat Pumps in Residential Buildings Using Real Operation Data” by Tobias Brudermüller, Ugne Potthoff, Elgar Fleisch, Felix Wortmann, and Thorsten Staake has been published in Nature Communications. Analyzing real-world data from 1,023 heat pumps in residential buildings across Central Europe, the study finds that 17% of air-source and 2% of ground-source heat pumps operate below European efficiency standards. Additionally, 11% are...
07. October 2024
We are pleased to announce the recent publication of the article “Shaping stable support: Leveraging digital feedback interventions to elicit socio-political acceptance of renewable energy “ in the renowned journal Energy Policy (VHB Jourqual: B). The article is the result of a collaboration with Prof. Dr. Gilbert Fridgen from the University of Luxembourg and Dr. Felix Wagon from the FIM Research Center in Augsburg. Although most people in Germany are in favor of renewable energies, their...
11. June 2024
Our paper "Predictability of electric vehicle charging: Explaining extensive user behavior-specific heterogeneity" has been published in the Journal Applied Energy. The full article is available as open access (click here to open the link).
24. November 2023
Research team finds striking complementarities in digital behavioral interventions. Read more here in the Journal of Public Economics (open access).
29. August 2023
We are proud to announce that the research paper, "Salience, transparency, and self-nudging: a digital nudge to promote healthier food product choices", has recently been published in the European Journal of Information Systems. We congratulate our Alumnus Leonard Michels to this great publication which is a nice culmination for his PhD journey! We are also thankful for the fruitful collaboration with the co-authors Jessica Ochmann, Kathrin Schmitt, Sven Laumer and Verena Tiefenbeck. The paper...
28. August 2023
We are pleased to announce that our manuscript "Large-scale monitoring of residential heat pump cycling using smart meter data" has been accepted by the Journal Applied Energy. The article was written by Tobias Brudermüller, Markus Kreft, Elgar Fleisch and Thorsten Staake. Heat pumps play an essential role in decarbonizing the building sector, but their electricity consumption can vary significantly across buildings. This variability is closely related to their cycling behavior (i.e., the...
09. June 2023
Tobias Brudermüller and Markus Kreft published a Python tutorial on “Smart Meter Data Analytics: Practical Use-Cases and Best Practices of Machine Learning Applications for Energy Data in the Residential Sector”. The tutorial is designed for practical, self-paced learning, and real-world applications. It is part of the ICLR 2023 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning hosted by ClimateChangeAI. Link to publication
20. January 2023
Every year, the Foundation for Energy Informatics awards excellent bachelor's and master's theses that contribute to shaping the energy system of tomorrow. The foundation has awarded two theses completed in the Bits-to-Energy Lab in succession (both in 2021 and 2022) with a sponsorship prize in the category "Best master's thesis". Elena Giacomazzi's master's thesis on "Forecast of electricity demand and load peaks in the distribution network with LSTM and transformer architectures" won a...
01. December 2022
On December 1st, Konstantin Hopf gave a talk about Smart Meter Analytics as part of the Smart City Talk Osnabrück.
28. November 2022
A researcher of our team, Tobias Brudermüller, was invited to present our work on stage in a series of „Science Slam“ events.