Prof. Dr. Florian Steinke
+49 (0) 6151 16-21711
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Landgraf-Georg-Str. 4
64283 Darmstadt
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Research Interest
Applying algorithms and tools from machine learning, optimization, and control to energy management problems such as energy system design, energy system operation, and energy automation.
Short Bio
Florian Steinke is a full professor at TU Darmstadt and heads the Energy Information Networks & Systems lab since 2017.
Prior to this, he was with Siemens Corporate Technology, Automation & Control, in Munich from 2009-2017. He lead the development of a functional architecture & algorithms for an island grid control system with up to 100% renewables, lead the development for a multimodal energy system analysis & optimization tool for studying complete countries as well as specific hybrid energy projects, and contributed to several other research projects in the energy domain, but also for hearing aids, ore grinding mills, intelligent traffic control systems, and semantic web computing. In 2009, he received a PhD for his work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen (departement now in MPI for Intelligent Systems), in Machine Learning. In 2005, he obtained a Diploma degree in Computational Physics from the Eberhardt-Karls-Universität Tübingen
From 2018 to 2022 Florian Steinke was the spokesman of the profile area "Future Energy Systems" / profile topic "Integrated Energy Systems" of the Technical University Darmstadt. He is a member of the IEEE/PES and the German engineering society VDE/ETG. He serves in the VDE/ETG working group V1 on Generation and has been member of two CIGRE's WGs on Power Systems Planning under Uncertainty and on Operating Strategies and Preparedness for System Operational Resilience. He received the DAGM Student Award for the best diploma thesis in pattern recognition in 2005 and the Siemens PG IE Innovation Award 2014 for his works on island grids.
Publications
[Conference]
Tobias Gebhard; Andrea Tundis; Florian Steinke :
*accepted* Automated Generation of Urban Medium-voltage Grids using OpenStreetMap Data.
To appear in: IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2024
[Conference]
Hans Stenglein; Timm Faulwasser; Florian Steinke :
Robust and Chance-Constrained Dispatch Policies for Linear Power Systems.
In: 12thIFAC Symposium on Control of Power and Energy Systems (CPES 2024), Rabat, Morocco, 2024
[Conference]
Martin Braun; Christian Gruhl; Christian A. Hans; Philipp Härtel; Christoph Scholz; Bernhard Sick; Malte Siefert; Florian Steinke; Olaf Stursberg; Sebastian Wende-von Berg :
*accepted* Predictions and Decision Making for Resilient Intelligent Sustainable Energy Systems.
To appear in: IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2024
[Conference]
Adeel Jamal; Benedikt Grüger; Kirill Kuroptev; Michael Wolff; Florian Steinke; Gerd Griepentrog :
*accepted* Exploring Cyber Threats based on Harmonic Distortions: A Testbed to analyze Attack Scenarios .
To appear in: Energy Conversion Congress & Expo Europe, Darmstadt, 2024
[Conference]
Andrew Eliseev; Florian Steinke :
Conceptual Framework for Determining the Treewidth of Distribution Grids.
In: 23rd Power System Computation Conference, Paris, 2024
[Journal]
Mario Beykirch; Andreas Bott; Tim Janke; Florian Steinke :
The Value of Probabilistic Forecasts for Electricity Market Bidding and Scheduling Under Uncertainty.
In: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems , 2024
[Conference]
Domenico Tomacelli; Paul Sturberg; Michael Metzger; Florian Steinke :
Learning Probability Distributions over Georeferenced Distribution Grid Models.
In: 23rd Power System Computation Conference, Paris, 2024
[Journal]
Jonas Hülsmann; Julia Barbosa; Florian Steinke :
Local Interpretable Explanations of Energy System Designs.
In: MDPI Energies 16 (5), P. 2161, 2023
[Journal]
Andreas Bott; Tim Janke; Florian Steinke :
Deep learning-enabled MCMC for probabilistic state estimation in district heating grids.
In: Elsevier Applied Energy 336 , P. 120837, prePrint, 2023
[Journal]
Michèle Knodt; Anna Stöckl; Martin Pietsch; Florian Steinke; Gerrit Hornung; Jan-Philipp Stroscher :
Power blackout: Citizens’ contribution to strengthen local resilience.
In: Elsevier Energy Policy 174 , P. 113433, 2023
[Conference]
Domenico Tomaselli; Paul Stursberg; Michael Metzger; Florian Steinke :
Representing Topology Uncertainty for Distribution Grid Expansion Planning.
In: 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED) , Rome, Italy, 2023
[Journal]
Edwin Mora; Florian Steinke :
Admissible Control Laws for Constrained Linear Power Flow: The General Case.
In: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 39 (1), P. 658 - 670, 2023
[Journal]
Allan Santos; Amr Rizk; Florian Steinke :
Adaptive Global Coordination of Local Routing Policies for Communication Networks.
In: Elsevier Computer Communications 204 , P. 101-108, 2023
[Journal]
Allan Santos; Florian Steinke :
Robust Placement and Control of Phase-Shifting Transformers Considering Redispatch Measures.
In: MDPI Energies 16 (11), P. 4438, 2023
[Journal]
Jieyu Chen; Tim Janke; Florian Steinke; Sebastian Lerch :
Generative machine learning methods for multivariate ensemble post-processing.
In: Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Annals of Applied Statistics 18 (1), P. 159-183, 2023
[Conference]
Sara Mollaeivaneghi; Julia Barbosa; Florian Steinke :
DER Pricing Power in the Presence of Multi-Location Consumers with Load Migration Capabilities.
In: IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), Grenoble, France, 2023
[Conference]
Kirill Kuroptev; Florian Steinke :
Coordinated cyber attacks on smart grids considering software supply chains.
In: IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), Grenoble, France, 2023
[Conference]
Domenico Tomaselli; Paul Stursberg; Michael Metzger; Florian Steinke :
Representing Topology Uncertainty for Distribution Grid Expansion Planning.
In: 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution(CIRED), Rome, Italy, PDF, 2023
[Conference]
Thanh Huynh; Pascal Friedrich; Sebastian Thiem; Vladimir Danov; Florian Steinke; Stefan Niessen :
Local multi modal energy market for thermal-electric energy systems with consideration of temperature flexibility in heating subnetworks.
In: 9th International Conference on Smart Energy Systems (SESAAU 2023), Copenhagen, Denmark, PDF, 2023
[Journal]
Sara Mollaeivaneghi; Allan Santos; Florian Steinke :
Unimodality of Parametric Linear Programming Solutions and Efficient Quantile Estimation.
In: MDPI AppliedMath 3 (4), P. 814-827, 2023
[Journal]
Simon Ackermann; Andrei Szabo; Joachim Bamberger; Florian Steinke :
Design and optimization of performance guarantees for hybrid power plants.
In: Elsevier Energy 239 , P. 121742, 2022
[Conference]
Mario Beykirch; Tim Janke; Florian Steinke :
Bidding and Scheduling in Energy Markets: Which Probabilistic Forecast Do We Need?.
In: 17th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS 2022), virtual Conference, 2022
[Journal]
Thanh Huynh; Franziska Schmidt; Sebastian Thiem; Martin Kautz; Florian Steinke; Stefan Niessen :
Local energy markets for thermal-electric energy systems considering energy carrier dependency and energy storage systems.
In: Elsevier Smart Energy 6 , P. 100065, 2022
[Journal]
Martin Pietsch; Florian Steinke :
The Water Energy Nexus: Improved Emergency Grid Restoration with DERs.
In: Elsevier ScienceDirect Electric Power Systems Research (Proc. 22nd Power Systems Computation Conference, PSCC 2022) 212 , P. 108468, prePrint, 2022
[Conference]
Tobias Gebhard; Eva Brucherseifer; Florian Steinke :
Monitoring Electricity Demand Synchronization Using Copulas.
In: IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), Novi Sad, Serbia, 2022
[Conference]
Michael Heise; Martin Pietsch; Florian Steinke; Maximilian Bauer; Burak Yilmaz :
Optimized UAV Placement for Resilient Crisis Communication and Power Grid Restoration.
In: IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), Novi Sad, Serbia, 2022
[Conference]
Tim Janke; Mohamed Ghanmi; Florian Steinke :
Implicit Generative Copulas.
In: 35th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), virtual Conference, 2021
[Conference]
Johannes Börner; Florian Steinke :
Measuring LTI System Resilience against Adversarial Disturbances based on Efficient Generalized Eigenvalue Computations.
In: 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2021), virtual Conference, 2021
[Conference]
Johannes Sindt; Allan Santos; Marc E. Pfetsch; Florian Steinke :
Evaluation of Multiparametric Linear Programming for Economic Dispatch under Uncertainty.
In: 2021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), virtual Conference, 2021
[Conference]
Mario Beykirch; Tim Janke; Imed Tayeche; Florian Steinke :
Probabilistic Forecast Combination for Anomaly Detection in Building Heat Load Time Series.
In: 2021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), virtual Conference, 2021
[Conference]
Andreas Bott; Pascal Friedrich; Lea Rehlich; Florian Steinke :
Model Reduction for Heat Grid State Estimation.
In: 2021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), virtual Conference, 2021
[Conference]
Christopher Ripp; Julia Barbosa; Florian Steinke :
Operational Carbon Mitigation Potential of Flexible Multi-Energy Systems: A Case Study.
In: 2021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe 2021), virtual Conference, 2021
[Report]
Jens Ivo Engels; Sybille Frank; Iryna Gurevych; Martina Heßler; Michèle Knodt; Jochen Monstadt; Alfred Nordmann; Andreas Oetting; Annette Rudolph-Cleff; Uwe Rüppel; Gerrit Jasper Schenk; Florian Steinke :
Transformation, Zirkulation, System of Systems : Für ein dynamisches Verständnis netzgebundener Infrastrukturen.
In: Darmstadt, 2021
[Journal]
Edwin Mora; Florian Steinke :
On the minimal set of controllers and sensors for linear power flow.
In: Elsevier ScienceDirect Electric Power Systems Research 190 , 2021
[Conference]
Edwin Mora; Florian Steinke :
Robust voltage regulation for active distribution networks with imperfect observability.
In: 14th IEEE PowerTech Conference, virtual Conference, 2021
[Conference]
Sizhang Feng; Leon Floeer; Felix Goerzel; Dennis Michael Joeckel; Julia Barbosa; Florian Steinke :
Towards Low-Carbon Multi-Energy Systems: The Hessian Energy Transition.
In: Power and Energy Student Summit (PESS 2021), virtual Conference, 2021
[Journal]
Julia Barbosa; Christopher Ripp; Florian Steinke :
Accessible Modeling of the German Energy Transition: An Open, Compact, and Validated Model.
In: MDPI Energies 14 (23), P. 8084, 2021
[Conference]
Jonas Hülsmann; Lennart J. Sieben; Mohsen Mesgar; Florian Steinke :
A Natural Language Interface for an Energy System Model.
In: 11th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe, virtual Conference, 2021
[Conference]
Jonas Hülsmann; Florian Steinke :
Explaining Complex Energy Systems: A Challenge.
In: 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020), Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with ML, virtual Conference, 2020
[Conference]
Andreas Bott; Alexander Matei; Florian Steinke; Stefan Ulbrich :
Methodenbaukasten für Flexible Wärmenetze der Zukunft.
In: Konferenzreader Digitalisieren, Sektoren koppeln, Flexibilisieren: Systemische Integration der Bioenergie und weiterer erneuerbarer Energien in Gebäuden & Quartieren, virtual Conference, 2020
[Conference]
Christopher Ripp; Mario Beykirch; Johannes Oltmanns; Florian Steinke :
Multi-modales Echtzeit Energiemonitoring - Multi-modales echtzeit Energiemonitoring als Basis eines digitalen Zwillings des Energiesystems des Campus Lichtwiese der Technischen Universität Darmstadt.
In: Digitalisieren - Sektoren koppeln - Flexibilisieren. Systemische Integration der Bioenergie und weiterer erneuerbarer Energien in Gebäuden & Quartieren, virtual Conference, 2020
[Conference]
Tim Janke; Florian Steinke :
Probabilistic multivariate electricity price forecasting using implicit generative ensemble post-processing.
In: 16th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS 2020), virtual Conference, 2020
[Conference]
Allan Santos; Amr Rizk; Florian Steinke :
Flexible Redundancy Generation for Virtual Network Embedding with an Application to Smart Grids.
In: 11th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy '20), virtual Conference, 2020
[Journal]
Edwin Mora; Florian Steinke :
Minimal Control of Constrained, Partially Controllable & Observable Linear Systems.
In: Elsevier IFAC-PapersOnLine 53 (2), P. 4521-4526, 2020
[Conference]
Martin Pietsch; Anja Klein; Florian Steinke :
Merging Microgrids for Optimal Distribution Grid Restoration under Explicit Communication Constraints.
In: 2020 Resilience Week (RWS), virtual Conference, 2020
[Conference]
Edwin Mora; Florian Steinke :
Computing sparse affine-linear control policies for linear power flow in microgrids.
In: Proceedings of 2020 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), virtual Conference, 2020
[Conference]
Allan Santos; Edwin Mora; Jan Peters; Florian Steinke :
Decentralized Data-Driven Tuning of Droop Frequency Controllers.
In: 2020 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), virtual Conference, 2020
[Conference]
Allan Santos; Edwin Mora; Jan Peters; Florian Steinke :
Decentralized Data-Driven Tuning of Droop Frequency Controllers applied to a Non-Linear Grid Model.
In: PESS 2020 : IEEE Power and Energy Student Summit : conference proceedings, virtual Conference, 2020
[Conference]
Michaela Lestakova; Kevin Logan; Imke Lorenz; Martin Pietsch; John Friesen; Florian Steinke; Peter F. Pelz :
Towards a Common Ontology for Investigating Resilience of Interdependent Urban Systems.
In: Proceedings of the Joint International Resilience Conference, JIRC2020, 23.11.2020-27.11.2020, Online Event, Twente, 2020
[Conference]
Mario Beykirch; Tim Janke; Florian Steinke :
Bayesian Inference with MILP Dispatch Models for the Probabilistic Prediction of Power Plant Dispatch.
In: 16th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019
[Conference]
Simon Ackermann; Andrei Szabo; Simon Paulus; Florian Steinke :
Comparison of Two Day-Ahead Offering Strategies for a Flexible CHP Plant in Germany.
In: 2019 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), Bucharest, Romania, 2019
[Conference]
Johannes Börner; Simon Scheurich; Florian Steinke :
Nonlinear consensus for improved resilience of distributed secondary frequency control.
In: 2019 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), Bucharest, Romania, 2019
[Conference]
Christopher Ripp; Florian Steinke :
Sensitivity analysis of linear programming economic dispatch models.
In: ETG-Kongress 2019 - Das Gesamtsystem im Fokus der Energiewende, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, 2019
[Conference]
Florian Steinke :
Is Resilience the Real Driver for Decentral Intelligence in Energy?.
In: International Conference on Urban Infrastructures: Criticality, Vulnerability and Protection, Darmstadt, 2019
[Conference]
Jonas Hülsmann; Christopher Ripp; Florian Steinke :
Balancing power potential of pools of small-scale units.
In: 16th International Conference on the European Energy Market, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019
[Conference]
Florian Steinke; Christopher Ripp :
Efficient Sensitivity Analysis for MPC Controlled Multimodal Energy Systems.
In: GMA-Fachausschuss 1.50 "Grundlagen vernetzter Systeme", 2019
[Conference]
Sebastian Schreck; S. Thiem; A. Amthor; L. Wagner; J. Schäfer; S. Nießen; Florian Steinke :
Harvesting the Flexibility of Distributed Multi-Modal Energy Management Systems through an Iterative Local Energy Market.
In: International Renewable Energy Storage Conference (IRES 2019), 2019
[Conference]
Florian Steinke :
Maschinelles Lernen für den Betrieb und die Planung von Energiesystemen.
In: House of Energy Kongress: Energie im Wandel erfahren, Frankfurt, 2019
[Conference]
Johannes Börner; Florian Steinke :
On the Resilience of Secondary Frequency Control.
In: ETG-Kongress 2019 - Das Gesamtsystem im Fokus der Energiewende, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, 2019
[Conference]
Mario Beykirch; Tim Janke; Florian Steinke :
Evaluation of Day-Ahead Electricity Price Predictions with Multi-Stage Stochastic Programs.
In: 8th International Ruhr Energy Conference (INREC 2019), Essen, Germany, 2019
[Journal]
Tim Janke; Florian Steinke :
Forecasting the Price Distribution of Continuous Intraday Electricity Trading.
In: Energies 12 (22), P. 4262, 2019
[Conference]
Tim Janke; Bastian Brindley; Tobias Rodemann; Florian Steinke :
Incentivizing the adoption of local flexibility options: A quantitative case study.
In: 15th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM'18), Lodz, Poland, 2018
[Conference]
Mario Beykirch; Tim Janke; Florian Steinke :
Learning Dispatch Parameters of Thermal Power Plants from Observations.
In: 8th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2018
[Conference]
Simon Ackermann; Andrei Szabo; Florian Steinke :
A Computationally Efficient Method for RiskAverse Scheduling of Hybrid Power Plants.
In: 8th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2018
[Conference]
Christopher Ripp; Florian Steinke :
A First Shot at Time-Dependent CO2 Intensities in Multi-Modal Energy Systems.
In: 2018 15th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), Lodz, Poland, 2018
[Journal]
Christopher Ripp; Florian Steinke :
Modeling Time-dependent CO_2 Intensities in Multi-modal Energy Systems with Storage.
In: ArXiv e-prints , 2018
[Conference]
Florian Steinke; Christopher Ripp :
CO2 reduzieren mit Power-to-Heat: Woher weiß ich wann?.
In: 4. Dialogplattform Power-to-Heat (VDE), Berlin, Deutschland, 2018
[Conference]
S. Ackermann; M. Buhl; M. Lindner; F. Steinke :
A Novel Algorithm for the Fast and AccurateQuantile Computation in Probabilistic Power Flow.
In: PESGM'18- IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, Portland, USA, 2018
[Conference]
Johannes Börner; Florian Steinke :
Distributed Secondary Frequency Control via Price Consensus.
In: 8th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018
A full list of past publications of Florian Steinke can be found here. A selection of older key contributions is:
Energy System Design
- Steinke, F., P. Wolfrum and C. Hoffmann: Grid vs. storage in a 100% renewable Europe, Renewable Energy 50, 826-832, (2013) DOI
- Schaber, K., F. Steinke and T. Hamacher: Grid Extensions for the Integration of Variable Renewable Energies in Europe: Who Benefits Where?, Energy Policy 43, 123-135, (2012) DOI
- Knorr, K.; Zimmermann, B.; Kirchner, D.; Speckmann, M.; Spieckermann, R.; Widdel, M.; Wunderlich, M.; Mackensen, R.; Rohrig, K.; Steinke, F.; Wolfrum, P.; Leveringhaus, T.; Lager, T.; Hofmann, L.; Filzek, D.; Göbel, T.; Kusserow, B.; Nicklaus, L.; Ritter, P. (2014): Kombikraftwerk 2 / RegenerativKraftwerk 2050: Wege zu einer 100%-Versorgung mit erneuerbaren Energien - Abschlussbericht, Pilotprojekt unter Förderung des Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, (08 2014) Link
Energy Systems Operation
- Kellerer, E., Steinke, F.: Scalable Economic Dispatch for Smart Distribution Networks, IEEE Transaction on Power Systems 30(4), 1739-1746, (2015) DOI
- U. Münz, M. Metzger, A. Szabo, F. Steinke, P. Wolfrum, R. Sollacher, D. Obradovic, M. Buhl, T. Lehmann, M. Duckheim, and S. Langemeyer: Overview of Control Technologies for Future Power Systems – An industry perspective, at - Automatisierungstechnik, 869–882, (2015) DOI
- Auer, S., F. Steinke, Chunsen, X., Sollacher, R. and Szabo, A.: Can Distribution Grids Significantly Contribute to Transmission Grids' Voltage Management?, IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Europe (ISGT Europe 2016), Ljubljana, Slovenia (2016) DOI
Machine Learning
- Steinke, F., M. Hein and B. Schölkopf: Non-parametric Regression between General Riemannian Manifolds, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS) 3(3), 527-563, (09 2010) PDF
- Steinke, F. and B. Schölkopf: Kernels, Regularization and Differential Equations. Pattern Recognition 41(11), 3271-3286 (11 2008) PDF
- Steinke, F., M. Seeger and K. Tsuda: Experimental design for efficient identification of gene regulatory networks using sparse Bayesian models. BMC Systems Biology 1(51), 1-15 (11 2007) PDF