Kilian Helfenbein

Activities

• Energy system modeling for the simulation-aided study of the grid integration of new technologies such as electric vehicles, battery storage, and heat pumps
• Conceptual design and evaluation of grid-friendly operation schemes of new electrical loads as a flexibility option in the context of sector coupling

Personal Information

Kilian Helfenbein has been a researcher in the Research Unit Transformation of Energy Systems at RLI since April 2021. Previously, he was a student assistant in the same Research Unit since August 2020.

He studied in the master’s degree program Renewable Energy Systems at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and was writing his thesis in the open_BEA project, in which he was investigating the effects of the increasing penetration of private transport with electric vehicles on medium and low voltage networks. The focus of his work lied on the influence of different charging strategies of electric vehicles on the required grid expansion as well as on the optimization of the smart charging of electric vehicles.

Kilian holds a bachelor’s degree in Renewable Energy Systems from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences. He wrote his bachelor’s thesis at the sonnen GmbH and investigated the quality of the operating reserve of a virtual battery power plant.