Electric Power and Energy Systems research

Electrical Energy Laboratory at Tech Lane Ghent Science Park – Campus Ardoyen

EELAB | Electric Power and Energy Systems

The Electrical Energy Laboratory (EELAB) is a research group of the Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium.
The EELAB research on Electric Power and Energy Systems at Campus Ardoyen (see contact information) covers several 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 EELAB research 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

The PhairywinD project team organises the Academic Offshore Wind Hackathon Hack4Wind from 5 to 7 February 2025 in Brussels.

For more information, you can also watch the recording of the webinar session held on 17 December.

Hack4Wind | Academic Offshore Wind Hackaton | 2025

UGain, the Ghent University Academy for Engineers, and Etch, the Energy Transmission Competence Hub of EnergyVille, organise a post-academic course Transmission Grids, HVDC & Underground Cables from 20 January till 12 May 2025. This course offers a balanced introduction to transmission grids and its components, with a focus on vital technologies for future grids: underground cables and HVDC.