Business & Information Systems Engineering
Document Type
Research Paper
Abstract
Due to the increasing importance of producing and consuming energy more sustainably, Energy Informatics (EI) has evolved into a thriving research area within the CS/IS community. The arti- cle attempts to characterize this young and dynamic field of research by de- scribing current EI research topics and methods and provides an outlook of how the field might evolve in the fu- ture. It is shown that two general re- search questions have received the most attention so far and are likely to dominate the EI research agenda in the coming years: How to leverage infor- mation and communication technol- ogy (ICT) to (1) improve energy effi- ciency, and (2) to integrate decentral- ized renewable energy sources into the power grid. Selected EI streams are reviewed, highlighting how the re- spective research questions are broken down into specific research projects and how EI researchers have made con- tributions based on their individual academic background.
Recommended Citation
Goebel, Christoph; Jacobsen, Hans-Arno; del Razo, Victor; Doblander, Christoph; Rivera, Jose; Ilg, Jens; Flath, Christoph; Schmeck, Hartmut; Weinhardt, Christof; Pathmaperuma, Daniel; Appelrath, Hans-Jürgen; Sonnenschein, Michael; Lehnhoff, Sebastian; Kramer, Oliver; Staake, Thorsten; Fleisch, Elgar; Neumann, Dirk; Strüker, Jens; Erek, Koray; Zarnekow, Rüdiger; Ziekow, Holger; and Lässig, Jörg
(2014)
"Energy Informatics - Current and Future Research Directions,"
Business & Information Systems Engineering:
Vol. 6: Iss. 1, 25-31.
Available at:
https://aisel.aisnet.org/bise/vol6/iss1/5