Electricity and energy

Demand response allows significant cost savings in energy expenditure. By regulating the company's electricity use according to the electricity price and the situation of the electricity grid, the company can reduce energy costs significantly. 

Our research expertise opens up opportunities to exploit new market and business models related to demand response. We are experts in electricity market regulation, forecasting models, and customer behaviour in the electricity market.

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Samuli Honkapuro

Professor, Electrical Engineering

+358 40 030 7728 | samuli.honkapuro@lut.fi

Electricity markets are evolving rapidly and the role of communities is becoming more important. 



Energy communities are a new type of player in the electricity market and energy system. They enable end-consumers to distribute self-generated energy, thereby increasing the customer's role in the electricity market. Energy communities bring new solutions to environmentally sustainable electricity use and open up new business opportunities.

 We have strong research expertise on the role of energy communities in the electricity market, as well as related regulation and operating models.

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Samuli Honkapuro

Professor, Electrical Engineering

+358 40 030 7728 | samuli.honkapuro@lut.fi

When electrifying developing countries, self-sustaining microgrids using renewable energy generation and battery-based energy reserves are often a cost-effective and sustainable option. Microgrids can also bring electrical energy, telecommunications links, and digital services to remote regions. 

These technological solutions and related new business models enable small income to end customers, which in turn creates added value and improves opportunities to cover the costs of the investment. We have implemented a pilot microgrid in Namibia. These same solutions can be used to improve the reliability of electricity distribution in rural areas in developed countries.

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Antti Pinomaa

Associate professor, Electrical Engineering

+358 40 833 7291 | antti.pinomaa@lut.fi

Strategic development of electricity distribution grids

Reliability requirements for electricity distribution, distributed energy resources, electrification of society, and population migrations pose challenges for the long-term development of distribution grids. 

We are exploring new cost-effective solutions to improve the reliability and flexibility of networks. We have significant experience in the strategic development of distribution networks in sparsely populated areas.

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Jukka Lassila

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering

+358 50 537 3636 | jukka.lassila@lut.fi

Sector integration and distributed energy resources require new methods to design and optimize the use of energy systems. These methods can be used in the design of electricity distribution networks and other energy infrastructure, as well as in the development of the electricity market. The themes of our expertise in this area include energy system resilience, flexibility markets and their collaborative interactions with TSOs and DSOs, and flexible integration of distributed energy resources into energy systems.

Prediction and Optimization

We are experts in various optimization methods and using these for optimization problems related to energy systems. This includes evolutionary algorithms, meta-heuristic optimization algorithms, and probability-based and stochastic optimization algorithms. In addition, we have experience in the application of machine learning to predict consumption and production.

Contact

Behnam Ivatloo
Professor, Electrical Engineering
behnam.ivatloo@lut.fi

We have expertise in e.g. from the following areas:

• Reliability of electronics and environmental testing
• Power electronics and its applications
• Electronic control solutions
• Electronics development work and Electronics design
• Characteristics of printed circuit boards
• Drones and swarming
• IoT and data analytics
• Measurement electronics and sensor development
• Biometric measurements and wearable technology
  
   

Standard-type measurements

• Efficiency measurements of electrical machines
• Calorimetric loss measurements of electrical drives
• Performance measurements of DOL and AC-powered electrical machines, up to ~ 300 kW
• IEC 61800-9-2 measurements 
  
   

High-speed machine tests

We have the ability to perform tests related to the research of industrial-scale high-speed machines at a high-speed test site:

• Load equipment 2 MW / 16,000 rpm
• A separate test chamber for safe testing
• 400 V and 690 V voltage levels for the high-speed machines to be tested