Dear readers,

The recent environmental and societal developments, in particular, the climate change happening more and more visible to larger parts of the society and also the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that changes in society, economy and all other energy-usage areas of our societies are needed but also possible. At the same time, we have also seen the new rise of AI / Informatics, which is now considered the “new hope” as a technological enabler for numberless solutions, either easing the required transition, making our lives safer or more convenient. Energy Informatics is therefore needed more than ever, to create an environment for researchers and practitioners from different areas of energy systems as well as information technology to present new results and discuss innovative approaches and solutions. We are happy to present the proceedings of DACH+ Energy Informatics 2020, which is held in Sierre, Switzerland in October 2020.

Despite interruptions from the current pandemic, the DACH+ Energy Informatics series has continued to establish itself as the premier European conference in the field. This year, we received 42 submissions. The submissions came from 7 countries, which cover a wide range of topics such as smart grid, renewable energy, blockchain, electrical vehicle, etc. The Technical Programming Committee gave feedback on the submissions in the form of more than 120 reviews. For the third year of open-access proceedings in the Springer Journal of Energy Informatics, 15 full and short research contributions and 16 poster abstracts were accepted, resulting in an acceptance rate of 36%.

This year’s conference is organized and hosted by the University of Applied Sciences in Western Switzerland - HES-SO Valais-Wallis. Publication funding was provided by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.

Sincerely,

René Schumann General Chair

Roman Rudel Technical Program Chair

Khoa Nguyen Publication Chair

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This article has been published as part of Energy Informatics Volume 3 Supplement 1, 2020: Proceedings of the 9th DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics. The full contents of the supplement are available online at https://energyinformatics.springeropen.com/articles/supplements/volume-3-supplement-1.

Publication costs were covered by the DACH+ Energy Informatics Conference Organizers, supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.

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Schumann, R., Rudel, R. & Nguyen, K. Welcome message from the organizers. Energy Inform 3, 11 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42162-020-00114-8

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• Published: 28 October 2020

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尊敬的读者，

最近的环境和社会发展，特别是气候变化正在社会的大部分地区越来越明显地发生，并且COVID-19大流行表明，我们社会的社会，经济和所有其他能源使用领域的变化是需要但也有可能。同时，我们也看到了AI /信息学的新崛起，现在它被视为无数解决方案的技术推动者的“新希望”，既可以缓解所需的过渡，也可以使我们的生活更安全或更便捷。因此，比以往任何时候都更需要能源信息学，以便为来自能源系统不同领域的研究人员和从业人员以及信息技术创造一个环境，以提出新的成果并讨论创新的方法和解决方案。

尽管当前的流行病已经中断，但DACH +能源信息学系列仍继续成为该领域的主要欧洲会议。今年，我们收到了42份材料。提交的材料来自7个国家，涵盖了广泛的主题，例如智能电网，可再生能源，区块链，电动汽车等。技术编程委员会以120多个评论的形式对提交的材料进行了反馈。在《 Springer能源信息学杂志》的第三年开放获取程序中，接受了15篇完整和简短的研究论文以及16篇海报摘要，接受率为36％。

今年的会议由瑞士西部的应用科学大学-HES-SO Valais-Wallis组织和主办。出版物资金由瑞士联邦能源局提供。

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