IEE/Institute/Team
Kelvin Walenta
Dipl.-Ing. BSc
Phone
+43 316 873 - 7915

Researcher Profiles
Pure: walenta-kelvin
OrcID: 0009-0003-6033-2277
Google Scholar ID: kzwvcQEAAAAJ
LinkedIn: kelvin-walenta-371a48252

Biography
Kelvin Walenta studied Technical Physics at Graz University of Technology and graduated with distinction in February 2024. During his exchange semester at the University of Bergen, he focused on courses covering the simulation of physical processes and continued to specialize in numerical modeling during his master’s thesis. Since March 2024 he has been working as a university project assistant and PhD student at the Institute of Electricity Economics and Energy Innovation (IEE) at TU Graz. His research interests include energy systems, numerical modeling, and optimization methods.

Areas of interest
energy systems, numerical modeling, optimization methods

Publications

Projects

V2G-QUESTS contributes to the creation of inclusive positive energy districts (PEDs) by empowering/emancipating/strengthening the power-balancing capacity of private and shared electric vehicles (EVs) in thus far EV-poor areas. These vehicles can be used as one big battery to tackle intermittent energy production and consumption in urban areas through the concept of Vehicle-to-grid (V2G), which is being assessed in several pilots. However, for V2G to positively affect the power network, it will have to be adopted at different geographies and socio-economical strata. Energy production and consumption are everywhere, not just in locations where higher-income people who can afford EVs live. In V2G-QUESTS we will therefore work in a multidisciplinary team to bring electric mobility and the concept of V2G into disadvantaged and typically excluded communities, therefore contributing to both mobility and energy transitions in PEDs. The project intends to produce specific guidelines for creating mobility-enabled PEDs that are demonstrated through three specific, yet diverse, European case studies that align citizens’ behavior, business models, technology, power optimization, governance, and impacts in a co-creation context in typically excluded districts. Each country that is part of V2G-QUESTS brings specific expertise required to maximize the impact of V2G at a local and regional scale.
Funding sources
  • Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH (FFG) , FFG
Start: 30.11.2023
End: 29.11.2026
Details
Austrian and European decarbonisation targets are increasingly focusing on the electrification of various sectors, such as transport, heating and industrial processes. National energy policy guidelines, including the expansion targets set out in the Renewable Energy Expansion Act (EAG), emphasise the promotion of renewable energy sources such as wind, photovoltaics, hydropower and biomass. However, these plans lack a concrete definition of capacities for storage technologies, both in terms of capacity and energy. As part of this study, the IEE is providing scientific support and is responsible in particular for quality assurance, support with parameterisation and analysis of the results.
Funding sources
  • Austrian Power Grid AG, APG
  • Bundesverband Photovoltaic Austria
Start: 31.08.2024
End: 30.12.2024
Details
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