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Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.sc.techn. Bernd Klöckl was appointed as University Professor for Sustainable Energy Systems at TU Wien with effect from March 1, 2023. He is assigned to the Institute of Energy Systems and Electrical Drives , opens in new window(E370) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, opens in new window.

Bernd Klöckl comes from Graz and studied electrical power engineering at Graz University of Technology. He then moved to Switzerland, where he did his doctorate in 2007 at the ETH Zurich with a dissertation on the topic "Impacts of energy storage on power systems with stochastic generation, opens an external URL in a new window”. In 2006 he returned to Austria and took over management of the "Grids" division at VEÖ (Association of Austrian Electricity Companies) - now "Oesterreichs Energie, opens an external URL in a new window" - in Vienna. In 2007 he switched to Austrian Power Grid AG., opens an external URL in a new window In 2011 he relocated to Bayreuth (Germany) to work at TenneT, opens an external URL in a new window, which operates in parts of Germany and the Netherlands as Europe's first cross-border transmission system operator, as head of the network planning department (since 2020 as "Head of Grid Analysis" for Germany and the Netherlands. In 2021 he changed as Director to "System Operations Concepts and Analytics" for 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, opens an external URL in a new window to Berlin, which, as a transmission system operator in the former East German region, also regulates the grid connection of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea. In the 15 years of his professional work for the power grid, he was responsible, among other things, for R&D projects to maximize the integration of renewable energy, the introduction of new transmission technologies and big data methods in long-term system planning.

The scientific home of Bernd Klöckl is now the Research Unit of Energy Systems and Networks, opens in new window, which he also heads. There he will deal primarily with questions regarding the technical requirements for the grid in the course of the conversion to a completely sustainable energy supply.

Publications by Bernd Köckl in the Scobus, opens an external URL in a new window database und im ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.