For this years BauSIM in Aachen, 122 Papers were accepted. BauSIM 2014 will take place in Aachen from 22.-24^th September with the main topic "Human-Centered Building"

In the context of the E.ON Energy Research Center Colloquium Series, Mareike Schenk and Christoph Loef from the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA), RWTH Aachen, gave a presentation about “Patentwesen” on May 14^th and on May 27^th, 2014.

During the following get-together all the participants had the opportunity to discuss this topic.

ACS and EBC presented the 2DSM concept on this years Hannover Trade Fair from April 7^th-11^th in Hall 16, Stand E27.

ThePGSis now equipped withanewtest benchfor power electronicconverters andhighspeeddrivesin the megawatt range.

On the 3rd of April the 7th Annunal Meeting of the E.ON Energy Research Center took place.The focus was on:"Innovation and Energy Markets". As in the last years many representatives from industry and research were present.

After the third place last year the E.ON Energy Research Center indoor soccer team reached again third place at the RWTH Indoor Soccer Cup on Saturday, March 29^th.

This year a group of 13 girls from Aachen and environment attended the "Girls'Day“ at the E.ON Energy Research Center. They passed workshops in the topics "Energieerzeugung, -verbrauch und -einsparung in den Bereichen Elektrotechnik, Maschinenwesen, Georessourcen und Wirtschaftswissenschaften".

Members of the E.ON Energy Research Center gave two keynotes and displayed five posters on the symposium on energy optimized Building 2014 in Essen.

A building model adapted to the complexity of city district scale applications was developed based on national standards, The results were published in a peer-reviewed journal paper at Building and Enviroment.

The IBPSA-Germany and Austria conference BauSIM2014 took place from September 22 – 24, 2014 in Aachen (Germany).

A system that helps to reduce your energy bill by automatically detecting if you are present or not. This system was described in a recently published peer-reviewed journal paper at Energy & Buildings.

New book entitled "Einführung in die Geophysik" written by GGE Director Christoph Clauser is available

The RWTH "Wissenschaftsnacht" took place at November 8^th.

In the context of the E.ON Energy Research Center Colloquium Series Prof. Dr. Jayant Baliga from the North Carolina State University gave a presentation about "Research and Scholarship for Enabling a Sustainbable Society" on July 17, 2013.

The Geotag 2013 – organized this year by the Institute for Applied Geophysics (GGE) – took place 21 June 2013 at E.ON ERC.

This year, the E.ON Energy Research Center again participated very successfully in “Girl’s Day”. 15 girls from Aachen and beyond got an exciting insight into Energy Research.

E.ON ERC has a Facebook site that shows actual information on research, courses and events.

RWTH Aachen University’s Melaten campus and the campus at the Research Centre Jülich are supplied via their own heating networks. In order to identify potential for optimization throughout the entire energy usage chain, these complex hydraulic systems have to be dynamically recorded.

Therefore, by the end of 2014 a simulation process was developed in the project “EnEff:Campus” which depicts the thermodynamic processes of the heat supply in a time-resolved and detailed manner. The aim is to show the possibilities of reducing the university properties’ primary energy demand.