Digital Applications in the Energy Industry 2

Component code / course code: EK-21.2

Semester: winter / summer

ECTS credits: 5

Lecture hours per week (SWS): 4

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Schaber

Prerequisites:  

he courses "Digital Applications in Energy Management 1) (EK-21.) and "Fundamentals of Energy Management 1" (Module EK-18).

Qualification objectives: 

In the lecture, the knowledge of digitalisation in the energy industry is deepened in a practice-oriented manner. For this purpose, various application areas of information systems in the energy industry are dealt with in detail, such as the mapping of energy industry processes, energy market modelling, industry-specific data formats or controllability of systems or e.g. smart home elements and the interoperability of the various systems. After completing the lecture series, the participants will be able to reproduce, understand and explain the learned IT application areas in the energy industry

Course contents: 

  •  Definition of Business Informatics, Digitalisation and Processes
  • Energy industry processes and market processes
  • Enterprise resource management systems for the energy sector (e.g. SAP)
  • Costumer Relationship Management Systems
  • Energy market and energy system modelling: introduction to optimisation models and simple applications in the "python" programming language
  • Data models
  • Introduction Terms and application examples of Big Data, Business Intelligence and Blockchain as well as Artificial Intelligence
  • Embedded Systems
  • Data protection, TC/IT - interoperability, standardisation, IoT, 5G applications

Teaching format (e.g. online/in person lecture/Seminar/Lab etc.): Script, exercises and programming tasks, small group work and presentations as well as current case studies

Examination type: student research project