Power generation from renewable energy sources such as wind energy or photovoltaic fluctuates and varies based on the weather. The electric capacity currently being generated hardly correlates with our current power use. This fact calls for new solutions, e.g. capacitors which balance the delayed production and use characteristic.

Intelligent grids, so-called smart grids, which are being developed at the Institute of Energy Systems and Fluid Engineering (IEFE), can continue to optimally adapt regionally differing generation and consumption requirements to one another. In this way, locally generated surplus electrical energy can be transferred to where it is actually needed.

Or vice versa, the current electricity consumption must be adapted to the locally generated available electrical energy. Only in this way can electrical energy systems be operated in a stable manner in the future.