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BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH is the competence center in Austria that聽conducts pre-competitive industry-related research in the field of bioenergy and biobased economy.

At BEST we work as a team to actively shape the transition to a sustainable and climate friendly bioeconomy.

Your talent and your passion for research and science are explicitly needed with us. Collaborate with us on interesting and promising tasks and develop your scientific creativity. Join us on our approach to a more environmentally and climate friendly future!

Team player? Enthusiastic? Open-minded? Then you are exactly right at BEST.

Don鈥檛 wait any longer and apply now!

Your tasks

The electricity grid's variable markets and rising volatility necessitate flexibly controllable units to compensate for these volatility. All together single-family
homes have big potential to contribute energy system's flexibility needs. The task of this thesis is to investigate different possibilities for the interaction of many single-family homes controlled by optimization based predictive control with electricity markets.

Your objectives

• Literature study on decentralized control of聽energy systems
• Investigation of interfaces to electricity markets
• Implementation of market-driven control聽strategies for predictive supervisory control
• Implementation of decentralized optimization聽approaches for the controller
• Comparison and validation in simulation studies

Your interests

• Field of Study: Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences, Digital Engineering, etc.
• Ideally with some background in control engineering or optimization
• Programming experience with MATLAB, Python聽or (ideally) Julia

Your benefits

• Joint supervision of the master鈥檚 thesis by BEST and the Institute of Automation and聽Control, TU Graz
• Integration into a dedicated team with good support
• Perspective of participation in follow-up projects after successful completion
• Financial compensation based on student staff salary scheme

Start: NOW
Duration: 6 months

Your application

We look forward to receiving your application!

We at BEST value and promote the diversity of skills of our employees and therefore welcome all applications. BEST also aims to increase the proportion of women and expressly encourages聽qualified women to apply.