Dr.-Ing. Georg Pangalos

Georg Pangalos, who holds a PhD in control engineering, has been conducting research at Fraunhofer since 2015 on the topics of the integration of renewable energy and the energy transition. Since 2024, he has been responsible for good scientific practice as a senior scientist at the Application Center for the Integration of Local Energy Systems at Fraunhofer IWES.

OPTILESSi – A toolchain for optimal local energy system sizing and operation

Since the beginning of the energy transition in the electrical power system in Germany, development has shifted toward decentralization. Contrary to the legacy power system with big central power plants, power systems with a high share of renewables have a decentralized topology with distributed power generation.