Workshop of the IRTF Research Group “Sustainability and the Internet”
Title:
The Internet meets the Electricity Grid: Technical Standards and Societal Challenges
Date:
July 16–17, 2026
Location:
Seminar Room (SR) 001
IT Centre (ITZ), University of Passau
Innstrasse 43
94032 Passau, Germany
Tentative Programme:
Internet Keynote: Cedric Westphal: Tbd.
Grid Keynote: Friederich Kupzog: Communication and energy supply systems: interlinking worlds caught in complexity
The talk will outline emerging requirements for communication in future energy systems. The electric power system must be understood as a distributed system whose efficiency depends on advanced digitalization, automation, and coordination mechanisms. Early work has already highlighted the importance of self‑organization, flexibility management, and the tight coupling between computational capabilities and communication network performance. The role of digital tools in strategic planning and implementation processes has gained importance since then. With a revolutionary increase of the abilities on the digital side, future energy systems will benefit from completely re-thinking planning, management and coordination architectures. This would boost robustness, resilience, cybersecurity, and seamless integration between energy and ICT domains.
What are the pressing issues?
Internetification of the Electric Grid
Gridification of the Internet
Klara Nahrstedt: NSF Compute-Energy Nexus workshop (Working Title, virtual presentation)
Cross-infrastructure measurement & signaling
tbd.
Incentivization
Next steps: in the IETF? Elsewhere?
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This event is subject to cancellation if there are insufficient participants.
