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.
02. November 2022
The Bits to Energy Labs at ETH Zurich, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, and University of Bamberg hosted a joint industry-academia workshop with three energy retailing companies in Bamberg. During the workshop, we exchanged current research studies and practical problems from an industry perspective with our current collaborators in research projects
03. October 2022
We are pleased to announce that our manuscript "Heat Pump Inspections Result In Large Energy Savings When A Pre-Selection of Households Is Performed: A Promising Use Case of Smart Meter Data" has been accepted by the Journal Energy Policy. The article was written by Andreas Weigert, Konstantin Hopf, Sebastian Günther, and Thorsten Staake. The study investigates how much saving can be achieved in a typical energy-saving campaign for heat pumps and how data from smart electricity meters can help...
16. May 2022
Our research on the power of real-time feedback to overcome salience bias (“Overcoming Salience Bias: How Real-Time Feedback Fosters Resource Conservation”, Tiefenbeck et al. 2018, Link) has been featured in an essay by Armin Falk published in “Der Tagesspiegel”.
17. January 2022
With a growing number of sustainable energy sources in the power system, distributed resources like PV, EV charging stations and H2 storage facilities play an increasing role.
01. January 2022
At the start of this year we are happy to welcome two new PhD candidates in our team.
04. August 2021
Sustainable energy supply in the private sector remains a key challenge of the energy transition. The research group around Dr. Konstantin Hopf at the University of Bamberg’s Bits-to-Energy Lab has been investigating the effective use of advanced data analytics and machine learning (ML) in this area for several years.
02. August 2021
On August 2nd, Tobias Brudermüller had his first day as a PhD student at B2E lab Zurich.