Martin Pietsch

M.Sc. Martin Pietsch

Distribution Grid Restoration

Research Interest

General Research Interest:

  • Distribution Grid Restoration
  • Optimisation of Grid Restoration Sequences
  • Resilience enhancement and
  • Post disaster measures

Research Project:

Even though the german electricity grid has been highly reliable for years, the supply risks are increasing. While extreme weather events present growing physical threats to the grids infrastructure, the electricity grids rising degree of digitalisation and decentralised renewable energies pose both, risks and chances for electricity supply. Grid overloads, due to excess supply of renewable power production and hacker attacks on digitalised power plant- and grid-control show real risks to supply reliability. At the same time, decentralised electricity generation from renewable energies and smart digitalised grid- and power plant-operations make a valuable contribution to the energy transition and offer new opportunities to improve the resilience of the electricity supply in crisis situations. 

These possibilities are investigated within the program cyber-pyhsical systems (CPS1) of the emergenCITYcenter, funded by the LOEWE initiative (Hesse, Germany). Based on the digital city of the future, we tackle the questions on how to maintain its functionalities even in extreme situations, crises and disasters and to increase the reliability of its critical infrastructure in the digital context. Considering the interdependencies of energy, communication and water infrastructure we formulate optimisation problems as mixed integer linear programs to find optimal switching sequences of digitalised grid components.

 

Open theses

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Short Bio

  • Since 2019: PhD student at EINS

  • 2017-2019 M.Sc. Energy Engineering at RWTH Aachen
    Field of specialisation: Renewable Energies

  • 2011-2017 B.Sc Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen:
    Field of specialisation: Energy Engineering

Publications

Power blackout: Citizens’ contribution to strengthen local resilience

[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

Optimized UAV Placement for Resilient Crisis Communication and Power Grid Restoration

[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

Slums in Smart Cities - Rethink the Standard

[Conference]
John Friesen; Martin Pietsch :
Slums in Smart Cities - Rethink the Standard.
In: IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC 2022), Santa Clara, USA, 2022

The Water Energy Nexus: Improved Emergency Grid Restoration with DERs

[Journal]
Martin Pietsch; Florian Steinke :
The Water Energy Nexus: Improved Emergency Grid Restoration with DERs.
In: Elsevier Electric Power Systems Research (Proc. 22nd Power Systems Computation Conference, PSCC 2022) 212 , P. 108468, prePrint, 2022

Towards a Common Ontology for Investigating Resilience of Interdependent Urban Systems

[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

Merging Microgrids for Optimal Distribution Grid Restoration under Explicit Communication Constraints

[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