Today's households face a huge variety of electricity consuming devices on the one hand, and increasing electricity prices and increased awareness for environmental sustainability on the other hand. Fluctuating electricity tariffs currently evaluated by electricity suppliers have the potential to make it even more complex ...

In the context of Smart Grid applications, distributed control algorithms show advantageous properties over classical centralized approaches. Regarding their operation in a critical infrastructure, however, it is of utmost importance to validate the correct behavior of such approaches beforehand. In this paper, we give ...

The increasing pervasion of information and communication technology (ICT) in the power grid motivates innovative research towards intelligent system control. Especially against the background of the growing share of renewable generation, novel approaches that mitigate e. g. grid expansion costs are of great interest. ...