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Energy Informatics.Academy Conference 2025 (EI.A 2025)
3-6 December 2025, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline

31 August 2025

Notification of acceptance

15 September 2025

Camera-ready paper due date

15 October 2025

Early Bird registration deadline

15 October 2025

Welcome to the EI.A 2025 Special Session & Calls

The Special Session & Calls section of EI.A 2025 highlights several specially curated special sessions that explore emerging themes and critical challenges in energy informatics across diverse contexts. Each special session offers a unique platform for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to engage in focused discussions, present cutting-edge research, and foster international collaboration.

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We invite paper submissions that address the scope of each special session and contribute to advancing knowledge and innovation in the field of energy informatics. Each special session features its own call for papers.

The EI.A 2025 Special Sessions

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EI.A 2025 Special Session on
Local and Regional Perspectives in Energy Informatics: Digital Innovations for Context-Aware Transitions

Overview

 

Energy informatics has become a key enabler of sustainable energy transitions, but the pathways, challenges, and solutions often vary significantly across national and regional contexts. This special session aims to explore how digital technologies are being developed and deployed to address specific local energy challenges—from urban decarbonization in megacities to smart energy solutions in rural and island communities.
The session invites papers that present digital tools, data platforms, control strategies, or simulation frameworks tailored to regional energy systems, regulatory frameworks, or socio-economic structures. We are particularly interested in how context-aware digital innovation can support energy resilience, grid flexibility, demand-side participation, and inclusive energy transitions.
By drawing contributions from diverse geographical regions—including Southeast Asia, the Nordic countries, Africa, Europe, and beyond—the special session seeks to foster cross-regional learning and open dialogue around the customization and transferability of energy informatics solutions.

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Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Localized smart grid and sector coupling solutions

  • Regional energy market integration and policy-aware tools

  • Data platforms and digital infrastructure adapted to national contexts

  • Community and prosumer-oriented digital solutions

  • Real-time control and flexibility management tailored to climate or urban forms

  • Interoperability and standardization challenges in local deployments

  • Low-resource or scalable solutions for developing regions

  • Capacity building and digital literacy in local energy transitions

  • Case studies of digital pilot projects, regulatory sandboxes, or living labs

  • Localized digital twin implementations for buildings, grids, or transport systems

Organizing Committee

Saraswathy Shamini Gunasekaran (Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia)

Salman Yussof (Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia)

Chiara Bordin (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)

Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

Zheng Grace Ma (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

EI.A 2025 Special Session on
Thermal Storage and Flexibility in Buildings: Digitalization, Control, and Market Integration of Activated Building Mass

Overview

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As the global energy transition accelerates, buildings are emerging not only as energy consumers but also as active storage and flexibility assets. This special session focuses on the role of thermal component activation, using structural building mass (e.g., concrete, wood, clay) as a form of integrated thermal storage, for enabling load shifting, demand-side management, and sector coupling in future renewable-based energy systems.
The special session will explore how digital systems, smart controls, predictive models, and standardized design approaches are transforming buildings into distributed energy resources. It invites contributions on simulation tools, control algorithms, energy market participation strategies, business models, and regulatory enablers for thermal activated building mass (TAB). Of special interest are system integration strategies, real-world demonstrations, and scalable innovations that unlock the full potential of building mass for heating, cooling, and grid flexibility.

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​​​This special session is organized by IEA ES Standardized Use of Building Mass as Storage for Renewables and Grid Flexibility.

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Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:​​

  • Digital modeling, simulation, and predictive control for TAB

  • Integration of TAB with smart grids and local energy systems

  • Flexibility quantification and KPIs for energy markets

  • Interfacing and interoperability of TAB systems with IoT and BMS

  • Demand-side management using building mass as thermal storage

  • Sector coupling using power-to-heat and hybrid storage concepts

  • End-user behavior, comfort, and data privacy in control systems

  • Business models and incentive frameworks for TAB deployment

  • Regulatory and policy enablers/barriers for storage-based buildings

  • Standardization efforts for market uptake of TAB technologies

  • Use cases from new construction, retrofitting, and repurposed buildings

  • TAB in multi-purpose, residential, or public building settings

Organizing Committee

Christoph Rohringer (AEE INTEC, Austria)

Alireza Afshari (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Daniel Muschick (BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH, Germany)

Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

Zheng Grace Ma (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

EI.A 2025 Special Session on
Enabling Climate Resilience and Energy Adaptation in Industry through Digital Innovation

Overview

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Energy-intensive industries are at the frontline of climate and energy challenges. Increasingly frequent extreme weather events, regulatory shifts, volatile energy prices, and the integration of intermittent renewables are disrupting industrial operations and supply chains. At the same time, digital transformation presents unprecedented opportunities to build resilience and adaptability across industrial systems.
This special session addresses how digital technologies—such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, simulation, optimization, and smart control—can be harnessed to enable climate resilience and energy adaptation in industry. It aims to foster a multidisciplinary dialogue on how industrial systems can anticipate, withstand, and evolve in response to climate-related and energy-driven uncertainties.
Drawing on the insights from IEA IETS Task 22 - Climate Resilience and Energy Adaptation in Industry under Uncertainty, the session welcomes contributions that explore flexible operations, adaptive planning, cross-sector energy integration, and decision support under uncertainty. It also invites case studies, theoretical advancements, and policy perspectives that advance the design and deployment of digitally enabled, low-carbon, and climate-resilient industrial ecosystems.
The session will provide a platform for researchers, industry practitioners, technology providers, and policy experts to share insights, tools, and experiences that support a digital and sustainable industrial transformation under uncertainty.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:​​​

  • Digital Tools for Resilience and Adaptation: AI, machine learning, digital twins, and simulation techniques for climate and energy risk assessment, real-time monitoring, and adaptive decision-making under uncertainty.

  • Flexible and Adaptive Industrial Operations: Integrated approaches to process control, production planning, and demand response that enhance operational flexibility and support low-carbon transitions.

  • Multi-Energy and Sector-Coupled Systems: Strategies for integrating industrial systems with electricity, heating, cooling, storage, and Power-to-X technologies, including applications in distributed energy resources, microgrids, and symbiotic clusters.

  • Governance, Policy, and Business Models: Regulatory frameworks, incentive structures, and business innovations that promote the adoption of digital energy services and resilience strategies in industry.

  • Case Studies and Cross-Sectoral Insights: Real-world demonstrations, pilot projects, and transdisciplinary approaches that provide lessons learned across industrial sectors (e.g., steel, chemicals, food) and geographic contexts.

Organizing Committee

Zheng Grace Ma (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Qian Wang (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Gian Luca Brunetti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Tiago Campelos Pinto (University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal)

Zita A. Vale (Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal)

Dietrich Schmidt (Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE, Germany)

Nasrin Arjomand Kermani (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

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