International Workshop
on Energy Data and Analytics
e-Energy Workshop 2022
June 28, 2022 – taking place virtually
Important Dates
- Paper Registration and Submission: April 11, 2022
- Notification of Acceptance: May 11, 2012
- Final Manuscript Due: May 26, 2022
Keynote Speaker
“Supplying Data Centres with 24/7 Clean Energy”
Abstract
Companies that want to burnish their sustainable credentials have increasingly been turning to
renewable energy to supply their data centres and other power demand. However, traditional Power
Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for renewable energy only match supply and demand on average over a
longer period such as a year. If the renewable energy comes from variable wind or solar power, this
means that within the year there are many periods of oversupply and undersupply. There is growing
interest from corporations such as Google to match their demand with clean energy supply on a truly
24/7 basis, whether that is using variable renewables paired with storage, or using dispatchable
clean sources such as geothermal power. In 2020 Google committed to operating entirely on 24/7
carbon-free energy (CFE) at all of its data centres and campuses worldwide by 2030. We will explore
the costs and benefits of
24/7 carbon-free PPAs, both for Google and for the power systems in which they operate. We will also
discuss implementation issues, market integration, and the possibility for demand-side management
both in time and between different data centres.
Bio
Tom Brown is professor for "Digital Transformation in Energy Systems" at the Technical University of
Berlin. He researches cost-optimal pathways for the energy system, with a particular focus on
revealing the trade-offs between energy resources, network expansion, flexibility and public
acceptance of new infrastructure. He is also a strong supporter of openness and transparency in
research data and software, with the goal to enable a vigorous public debate on the trade-offs
necessary to reach climate neutrality. He is one of the lead developers of the widely-used
open-source toolbox Python for Power System Analysis (PyPSA). Before joining TU Berlin in 2021, he
led a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He did his BA and
MMath at Cambridge University and his PhD at Queen Mary, University of London.
Schedule
Presentations of papers are 15 minutes long with 5 minutes discussion. Presentations for short papers are
12 minutes long with 3 minutes discussion. The schedule is defined in the Central European Summer Time (CEST) time zone.
9:00–9:45 — Keynote
9:45–11:00 — Session: Data Analytics
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Emissions and prices are anti-correlated in Australia: what this
means for the decarbonisation of our grid
Louise Bardwell, Marnie Shaw, Lachlan Blackhall (The Australian
National University)
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SVD-reduction of high-dimensional German spatio-temporal wind speed data and clusters of similarity
Oliver Grothe, Jonas Rieger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
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Adaptively coping with concept drifts in energy time series
forecasting using profiles
Benedikt Heidrich (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Nicole Ludwig
(University of Tübingen), Marian Turowski (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Ralf Mikut (Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT)), Veit Hagenmeyer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
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Application of Analytical Uncertainty Propagation to the Turkish Transmission Network in a Case
Study with High Uncertain Wind Power Share and Distributed Storage
Rebecca Baue, Tillmann Mühlpfordt (Institute of Automation and
Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany); Nicole Ludwig (Cluster of
Excellence “Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science”, University of Tübingen, Germany); Veit
Hagenmeyer (Institute of Automation and Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
(KIT), Germany)
11:00–11:15 — Break
11:15–12:10 — Session: Data Sets and Data Generation
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Modeling and Generating Synthetic Anomalies for Energy and Power Time
Series
Marian Turowski, Moritz Weber, Oliver Neumann, Benedikt Heidrich,
Kaleb Phipps, Hüseyin K. Çakmak, Ralf Mikut, Veit Hagenmeyer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
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LEAD1.0: A Large-scale Annotated Dataset for Energy Anomaly Detection
in Commercial Buildings
Manoj Gulati (Singapore Management University); Pandarasamy Arjunan
(Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS) Limited)
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High-Resolution Real-World Electricity Data from Three Microgrids in the Global South
Matthias Luh, Kaleb Phipps, Anthony Britto, Matthias Wolf, Marek Lutz, Johann Kraft (Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology)
Scope and Topics
The design of future energy systems that are efficient, ecologically friendly, robust and scalable is a core
concern of our societies. Another very relevant development in recent years is the one towards a data-driven
perspective on system design. In the context of energy systems, a broad variety of data, often huge in
volume, is available. For instance, each smart meter is generating data streams, which often are recorded
and archived. On the other side, this is not the case for all aspects of energy systems, even though the
availability of data is crucial for the development of new methods. The questions how data describing energy
systems can be captured and processed, how its availability can be increased, and what can be learned from
it are fundamentally important. This last aspect includes predictions of various kinds of supply and demand,
predictive maintenance of energy infrastructures, the processing of energy-consumption data in a way that
respects the privacy of the individuals involved as well as business secrets etc.
This workshop is interdisciplinary in nature, i.e., brings together individuals interested in both data
management/data analytics and energy systems. Its objectives are the following ones:
- The workshop wants to draw attention to the fact that data-driven approaches often are possible and tend
to be promising when designing and operating energy systems.
- The workshop wants to give researchers in databases/KDD communities the opportunity to subject their
ideas, concepts and solutions to a critical perspective by experts for energy systems.
- The workshop wants to help bringing researchers on energy systems close to the state-of-the-art on what
data-oriented approaches can do for the design and operation of such systems. It wants to provide
support to individuals who want to broaden up methodologically.
- The workshop wants to serve as a networking platform, with an eye on funding opportunities in
particular.
- The workshop aims to expose researchers to a diverse audience eager to learn about novel data sets,
which relate to emerging research topics in particular.
The workshop solicits submissions on the following topics – all of them specific to energy data/energy
systems and their characteristics:
- New approaches and techniques to analyze energy data
- data reduction
- data science for energy data
- infrastructures for/techniques/best principles for the administration, management and archiving of
energy data
- data and measurements from real-world energy systems
- data from simulations of energy systems
- synthetic data generation
- visualization
- data integration and data quality
- data privacy and anonymization
- modeling and representing energy-specific knowledge
On a methodological level, the workshop is open to any kind of submission:
- research papers
- vision papers
- comparative studies
- descriptors of energy data sets
- case studies and experience reports.
Submission Guidelines
Two types of contributions are solicited:
- Full papers, up to 8 pages in 9-point ACM double-column format (i.e., excluding references) and
unlimited number of pages for appendices and references, single-blind.
- Short papers, up to 4 pages in 9-point ACM double-column format (i.e., excluding references) and
unlimited number of pages for appendices and references, single-blind.
The submission must be in PDF format and be formatted according to the official ACM Proceedings format.
Papers that do not meet the size and formatting requirements may not be reviewed. Word and LaTeX templates
are available at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html.
The proceedings of the workshop will be published by ACM Digital Library along with the e-Energy conference
proceedings.
Submissions are made by HotCRP: https://eenergy22eda.hotcrp.com/
Organizing Committee
TPC Co-Chairs
- Klemens Böhm, KIT, Germany
- Nicole Ludwig, University of Tübingen, Germany
Program Committee
- Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal, Germany
- Aniket Chakrabarti, Microsoft, USA
- Bijay Neupane, Siemens Gamesa, Denmark
- Erik Buchmann, Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig, Germany
- Jorge Ángel González-Ordiano, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, Mexico
- Jorge Ortiz, Rutgers University, USA
- Lukasz Golab, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Marnie Shaw, ANU, Australia
- Martin Arlitt, Micro Focus, Canada
- Oliver Grothe, KIT, Karlsruhe
- Stephen Haben, Energy Systems Catapult, UK
Please turn to Klemens Böhm (klemens dot boehm at kit dot edu)
for any questions or comments.