Call for Papers, Issue 3/2021

Excerpt

Energy Informatics is based on the precept that adding information engineering to the energy domain increases energy efficiency and renewable energy utilization, and reduces associated carbon emissions [Energy + Information < Energy (Watson et al. 2010)]. Information engineering in this context is the practice of information processing and engineering with methods from computer science, information systems, information technology, and statistics. Scholars from these disciplines are well-positioned to have a significant impact on the successful transition to a renewable energy society operated at high levels of energy efficiency. The energy domain encompasses, among other areas, the management and operation of generation facilities, infrastructure, or the consumption processes. The pressing societal challenge to create an efficient renewable society is a grand opportunity for informatics scholars to apply their systems thinking skills and information technology knowledge to make a significant contribution to this information-intensive problem. Particularly, because energy transition requires the acquisition, processing, and analysis of sector-relevant data to optimize all processes along the value chain of a highly dynamic and continuously changing energy system. …