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About you and this role

We are looking for you, an ambitious bachelor / master’s student, to support our Energy & Environmental Operations by doing an internship project / thesis in Electrical Power Consumption Data Exchange with public grid supplier for our location in Schkopau, Germany.

Dow is offering great career opportunities in a global and international environment.
The department that will welcome you is the site infrastructure supplying energy, technical gases, and quality water to the consumers on site, running grids and pipe racks as well as a large variety of different facilities to provide all the required services.

Project description

Based on the Technical Guideline SO Gl of the transmission system operators, a data exchange between the grid operator DOW/INetzG and 50hertz is required.

The content of this data exchange is medium and short-term schedule data on the power consumption of the INetzG grid. This schedule data is based on power values of certain selected consumers/plants at the Schkopau site. The process of data input, acquisition and transmission must be developed. Furthermore, the relevant interfaces and responsibilities of those involved partners must be recorded. The aim of this master thesis is to develop the optimum solution for Dow to ensure a largely automated system is to be implemented based on a comparison of variants.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

Preferred skills

Additional notes

You can start as soon as possible for a period of 5 months (exact timing to be discussed).

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