Smart Grids, Computing Sciences and Electrical Engineering Tampere University

Overview

Electrification of energy system and whole society is the most important tool for mitigating the climate change. Increasing penetration of renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, electric vehicles and heat pumps is needed to reduce fossil carbon emissions and to reduce total energy usage. Huge investments and development are ongoing on these areas at the moment globally. Smart Grids, Computing Sciences and Electrical Engineering is offered at Tampere University.

Key facts

Smart grids are designed to enhance the effectiveness, stability and reliability of the electricity systems and to integrate distributed energy resources into system management. They are essential for increasing the share of renewable energy sources without compromising competitiveness and system security.

Our education is based on long-standing research in Smart Grids. Please see information about research groups in Electric power systems and Smart Grids, High voltage engineering, Power electronics and Electromechanics and some examples of recent research projects Energy community as a driver of electrified city (ECADEC), Distributed automation for electricity grid and DER management (INGA), Holistic Approach towards Empowerment of the DiGitalization of the Energy Ecosystem through adoption of IoT solutions (Hedge-IoT), and Gridable.