The next eSafeNet consortium meeting will take place at ACS in Aachen, on 17th October.

The next SUCCESS consortium meeting will take place in Cork, Ireland, on 12th-13th October. The hosts will be the ESB, the Irish electrical utility operator.

SUCCESS will have a booth at the European Utility Week in Amsterdam, 3rd-5th October.

8th LV steering committee meeting is is held in FEN office, Aachen.

On September 18th and 19th ACS hosted the ETIP SNET Region Workshop. https://www.etip-snet.eu/

Prof. Monti, Michael Diekerhof and Nikolaus Wirtz attended the ELSA Board meeting in Brussels.

E.ON ERC hosted the Cluster 3 joint meeting from 26 to 27 July. Shortly before this, ACS hosted two preliminary workshops (for contributors in work packages 3.1 and 3.4 respectively). ACS was represented by Stefan Dähling, David Raisz and Igor Sowa.

ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) launched a new group on Context Information Management for smart city interoperability. The ACS (Stephan Gross) joined the first workshop on Cross-Cutting Context Information Management in Berlin.

Several Work packages of the H2020 project DEFENDER met in Ljubljana for concrete elaboration of research activities across partners. A visit at ELES (one of the pilot site owners) regional control room and substation facilities supported the discussions. For ACS, Nikolaus Wirtz and Bettina Schäfer were participating.

On July 5th, industrial and academic partners participated in the first medium voltage consortium Worshop to discuss the results of the work achieved and define future directions for cooperation in research and development activities both industry and university.

7th LV steering committee meeting was hold in FEN office, Aachen. ACS (Ting, Wang) presented the research progress in the field of influencing factors of LVDC protection.

The 7th Steering Committee Meeting of FEN Low Voltage took place on RWTH Campus. Current developments and roadmap proposal were presented, engaging the industry consortium in the roadmap development.

ACS, represented by Prof. Monti, Gianluca Lipari and Padraic McKeever, joined the SUCCESS project meeting and first Advisory Board meeting in Stockholm, hosted by KTH - Royale Institute of Technology.

Professor Antonello Monti was awarded the "IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award 2017". Further information is published at the link.

ACS hosted the first review of the SUCCESS project. Prof. Monti, as technical manager, Gianluca Lipari and Padraic McKeever represented ACS, presenting the results of the project obtained so far and demonstrating the SUCCESS Security Monitoring Architecture and the developed security and resiliency solutions in the ACS laboratory.

The “Energie System 2050” project of the Helmholtz Association met in Berlin for their yearly workshop of all working groups. Marcus Fuchs (EBS) and Stephan Gross (ACS) presented their work on work package 5.2 and 5.4. More information about the “Energie System 2050” can be found on their website.

Professor Antonello Monti is one of seven RWTH managers who were awarded "FAMOS für Familie" for their family-friendly management. On prize-giving he was represented by Sara Khayyamim.

ACS at the Fraunhofer IoT Innovation and Networking Days in Bonn. ACS, represented by Gianluca Lipari, joined the Fraunhofer IoT Innovation and Networking Days, presented the vision and the first results of the H2020 Project SUCCESS. Further Information is published at the link.

The H2020 project DEFENDER held the kick-off meeting in Rome. Bettina Schäfer participated for ACS. DEFENDER (Defining the European Energy Infrastructures) is aiming at protection and security of critical energy infrastructures.

Stephan Gross participated for ACS in a meeting of the Smart Grid Plus ERA-Net initiative. The goal of the meeting was to establish a collaboration between Funding Programs, Providers of Data and Service Platform hosts.

ACS, represented by Marco Pau, hosted the M29 Flexmeter project meeting at the E.On ERC.

Nicolas Berr was awarded for his work "Efficient Simulation of PRAM Algorithms on Shared Memory Machines" from the Special Interest Group on Parallel Algorithms, Parallel Computer Structures and Parallel System Software. Further information is published at the link.

Anica Berthold participates at the 4th International Workshop on Grid Simulator Testing of Wind Turbine Drivetrains at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado USA.

Marco Pau presented the paper "Optimal scheduling of Heat Pumps for Power Peak Shaving and Customer Thermal Comfort" at the SMARTGREENS conference in Porto, Portugal. The paper was awarded as best paper of the conference.

Lukas Razik, Stefan Dähling and Igor Sowa represented ACS.

Marco Cupelli organizes with Trialog and AIT the first Workshop on “Interoperability by design for Demonstrations with cyber security constraints" with Representatives of the Czech Demo of InterFlex

The ACS, represented by Bettina Schäfer and Stephan Gross, joined the FIWARE Open Day to celebrate the formation of the FIWARE Foundation.

Marco Cupelli represents ACS at the Technical Committee Meeting of the InterFlex Project in Prague.

Over 60 participants met for a two-day workshop in Erlangen to define next steps for Cluster 3 work packages. ACS was represented by Bettina Schäfer, David Raisz and Stefan Dähling.

New paper on Multi-Area State Estimation published in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement available online at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7831476/

The Consortium Meeting of SUCCESS took place in Arnhem at premises of partner DNV-GL on February 2-3. The following deliverables have been released in January: D3.4 Information Security Management Components and Documentation, V1; D3.10 Integration and Validation Plan. Test and certification specifications, V1; D4.4 Description of available components for SW functions, infrastructure and related documentation, V1

Marco Cupelli presents the work package "GWP3 - Impact and deployment analysis of the innovative solutions" at the InterFlex kickoff in Nice, France.

The eSafeNet Consortium Meeting takes place at the premises of Ericsson in Herzogenrath on January 23^rd. Padraic McKeever participates for ACS.

Dr. Stefan Lankes was awarded the "Fellowships for Innovations in Digital Teaching and Learning at Universities", which was donated by the Stifterverband and the Federal State of NRW.

Prof. Ponci, Andrea Angioni and Gianluca Lipari participated to IDE4L Final Review in Bruxelles on December 13th.

Marco Cupelli was invited as Plenary Speaker for the ALL ELECTRIC SHIP Workshop at Exponaval. The topic of his presentation is going to be "Control and Automation for Next Generation Ship Power System: a Medium Voltage DC Approach"

Marco Cupelli participated in the DC-Direkt consortium meeting.

The project ENSURE, one of the four BMBF-funded Kopernikus projects, was kicked off in a meeting with all partners in Karlsruhe. Bettina Schäfer attended from ACS.

The paper "Hardware-in-the-Loop Validation of Control Parameters for MVDC Shipboard Power Systems" authored by Edoardo De Din, Gianluca Lipari, Marco Cupelli and Prof. A. Monti was presented at the conference.

The Horizon 2020 project ADMS for which Prof. Monti acts as Project Coordinator was kicked off in with all partners in a meeting at ACS. Further participants from ACS were Prof. Ponci, Bettina Schäfer and Andrea Angioni.

Lisette Cupelli, Robert Uhl, Marija Stevic and Marco Cupelli attended IECON 2016 (http://www.iecon2016.org) conference in Florence, Italy. Our institute presented four papers. Marija Stevic presented the paper “Virtual integration of laboratories over long distance for real-time co-simulation of power systems”. Robert Uhl presented two papers: The first paper is titled „Nodal-Reduced Modeling of Single-Phase Dual-Active Bridge Converters for EMTP-type Simulations“ and is about an efficient approach for modeling Dual-Active Bridge DC/DC-converters in transient system-level simulations. The second paper is titled „Non-linear Behavioral X-Parameters Model of Single-phase Rectifier in the Frequency Domain“ and is about applying the X-Parameters modeling approach in power electronics driven power systems. X-Parameters is a non-linear behavioral modeling approach, until now only used in microwave engineering, for steady-state simulations in the frequency domain, taking the generation of harmonics into account. Lisette Cupelli received the award for the best presentation on her paper “Ancillary services from data center HVAC systems and back-up generator sets” at the Special Session "Efficiency of Large Data Centers".

The Horizon 2020 project RE-SERVE for which Prof. Monti acts as Technical Manager was kicked off in a meeting at the coordinator Ericsson in Herzogenrath. Further participants from ACS were Bettina Schäfer, Antonino Riccobono and Markus Mirz.

Eyke Liegmann, a former master student of ACS, who was supervised by Dr. Antonino Riccobono, presented the paper "Wideband Identification of Impedance to improve Accuracy and Stability of Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations"

On 27 September 2016, a workshop of the IEEE PES Germany Section on the topic " Distribution networks for the Energy Transition - network structures, grid benefits, balancing capability" took place at the TU Kaiserslautern. Experts from industry, grid operators and science discussed on how the network structures that have been developed over decades are still sustainable in a more decentralized generation environment. Presentations in various topic blocks, such as grid expansion requirements in the distribution grid, system services and network black start capability, as well as further development of system structures, accompanied the discussions. Tim Schlösser from the institute ACS participated in this workshop to discuss with researchers and representatives of network operators the challenges of the Energy Transition in distribution grids in order to identify solutions from different perspectives and further research requirements.

The Conference "Zukunftsfähige Stromnetze" 2016 by BMBF and BMWi in cooperation with the lead partner Projektträger Jülich took place in Berlin. There have been several panel discussions with representatives from economy, politics, and science as well as a poster session and presentations of 82 research projects like SINERGIEN, SWARMGRID, etc. in which ACS is involved. All projects are supported by the BMBF / BMWi "Förderinitiative Zukunftsfähige Stromnetze" with over 140 million euros. From ACS Marco Cupelli and Lukas Razik attended the Conference.

The 1^st H2020 SUCCESS Innovation Event took place in Terni, Italy on 22 September. Links: http://www.success-energy.eu/ ; https://twitter.com/search?q=successenergy1 ; http://www.success-energy.eu/innovation-event.html

The 2nd H2020 SUCCESS Project Meeting took place in Terni, Italy on 20-21 September.

The half project review of FLEXMETER has been successfully held in Brussels on September 20th. ACS has a main role in the project for the off-line testing of the project solutions and presented a demo on Demand Response and a software tool aimed at the random generation of residential load profiles.

Abhinav Sadu will attend the  Sommerakademie 2016 (E.ON Stipendienfonds ) in the beginning of August

End-of project race of 4th semester project with barbeque .