Electric power and energy systems research

Energy & Systems Lab at Tech Lane Ghent Science Park – Campus Ardoyen

EnSy | Energy Systems & Clusters

The Energy & Systems Lab (EnSy) is a research group within the Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering of Ghent University, Belgium.
Energy Systems and Clusters is one of the three major research themes at EnSy.
This website specifically concerns the EnSy research in the field of electric power and energy systems at Campus Ardoyen (see contact information), which covers various topics related to control, stability and energy management of different types of electric power grids and systems. Herein the grid integration of renewable energy and electrical flexibility play an important role. The research concerns both (purely) electrotechnical aspects and techno-economic approaches. The focus lies on electric power and energy, but also the coupling with various other energy carriers (like heat and molecules) is an increasingly important topic.

The EnSy research on these topics includes both fundamental and more application-oriented research and is funded by various national and EU research programmes.

For each of the topics listed below, an overview of recent projects, PhD dissertations and publications in journals and conference proceedings is given.

News

There is a vacancy for a Researcher in the field of Electrical Power Engineering and Wind Energy at the Energy & Systems Lab (EnSy) of Ghent University in the frame of the project entitled DLC:X.X – Reducing the Design Fatigue Factor through exploiting Structural Health Monitoring data and extending the Design Load Case table.
The application deadline is 15 February 2026 (23:59 CET).
More information can be found here.

Vacancies & Calls | Researcher Electrical Power Engineering

Our latest paper in the field of wind energy and power electronics, entitled Hierarchical switch fault diagnosis based on transformer algorithm in four-leg inverters of stand-alone wind energy conversion systems, has been published with open access in the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems.