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Energy Informatics

Current and Future Research Directions

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Due to the increasing importance of producing and consuming energy more sustainably, Energy Informatics (EI) has evolved into a thriving research area within the CS/IS community. The article attempts to characterize this young and dynamic field of research by describing current EI research topics and methods and provides an outlook of how the field might evolve in the future. It is shown that two general research questions have received the most attention so far and are likely to dominate the EI research agenda in the coming years: How to leverage information and communication technology (ICT) to (1) improve energy efficiency, and (2) to integrate decentralized renewable energy sources into the power grid. Selected EI streams are reviewed, highlighting how the respective research questions are broken down into specific research projects and how EI researchers have made contributions based on their individual academic background.

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  1. Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

    Christoph Goebel,  Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Victor del Razo,  Christoph Doblander &  Jose Rivera

  2. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jens Ilg,  Christoph Flath,  Hartmut Schmeck,  Christof Weinhardt &  Daniel Pathmaperuma

  3. University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

    Hans-Jürgen Appelrath,  Michael Sonnenschein,  Sebastian Lehnhoff &  Oliver Kramer

  4. OFFIS, Oldenburg, Germany

    Hans-Jürgen Appelrath,  Michael Sonnenschein,  Sebastian Lehnhoff &  Oliver Kramer

  5. University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Thorsten Staake

  6. Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Elgar Fleisch

  7. University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Elgar Fleisch

  8. University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Dirk Neumann

  9. Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Idstein, Germany

    Jens Strüker

  10. Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Koray Erek &  Rüdiger Zarnekow

  11. AGT International, Darmstadt, Germany

    Holger Ziekow

  12. University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany

    Jörg Lässig

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Accepted after two revisions by the editors of the special focus.

This article is also available in German in print and via http://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de: Goebel C et al. (2014) Energieinformatik. Aktuelle und zukünftige Forschungsschwerpunkte. WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK. doi: 10.1007/s11576-013-0396-9.

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Goebel, C., Jacobsen, HA., del Razo, V. et al. Energy Informatics. Bus Inf Syst Eng 6, 25–31 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-013-0304-2

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