Smart energy grids in Austria - innovative solutions and concepts

Through the increasing electricity generation from renewable energy sources the power infrastructure not only in Europe received new stimuli to find unique and novel solutions. Especially the integration of information exchange into the infrastructure lead to the definition of the actual research topic of smart grids. Austrian researchers and industry alike have built a strong community over the years that brought quite a number of interesting and innovative approaches and solutions to very different challenges the smart grid still has to face. This work will give an overview on the Austrian solutions and concepts for a smart energy grid.