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[September '22] Our commentary titled "Electrolytic hydrogen has to show its true colors" has been accepted for publication in Joule.
[August '22] Our paper titled "Supervised Learning-Assisted Modeling of Flow-Based Domains in European Resource Adequacy Assessments" has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy.
[July '22] I will present some of our work on energy storage and market participation at the IEEE PES GM. Slides can be found here.
[July '22] I'll be serving as an AE for the IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation. The submission website is open, looking forward to your submissions!
[June '22] Our paper titled "Data-driven risk-based scheduling of energy communities participating in day-ahead and real-time electricity markets" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
[June '22] I started a new position as assistant professor "Energy Transition & Industry" at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft.
[May '22] Our paper titled "Comparative analysis of risk-aversion and strategic investment behavior in generation expansion" has been accepted for publication in Electric Power Systems Research.
[April '22] Our paper titled "Strategic bidding of wind power producers in electricity markets in presence of information sharing" has been accepted for publication in Energy Economics.
[March '22] M. Ovaere and I published a blog post on "EU ETS: the ambition of the Fit for 55 Package and the MSR’s invalidation rule support current allowance prices" via EUI FSR LifeDicet project.
[March '22] Our paper titled "Chance Contrained Stochastic MPC for Building Climate Control Under Combined Parametric and Additive Uncertainty" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Building Performance Simulation.
[February '22] We're launching a ESIM podcast series! Listen to our episode on EU ETS here. M. Kenis explains flow-based market coupling here.
[February '22] A. Uytterhoeven, co-supervised with L. Helsen, obtained her PhD degree. Her thesis is titled "Optimal Operation of Thermostatically Controlled Loads in Residential Buildings under Uncertainty: From a Building to an Electricity System Perspective". Congratulations, Anke!
[February '22] Our paper "Toward a fundamental understanding of flow-based market coupling for cross-border electricity trading" has won the EEX Group Excellence Award 2021.
[January '22] We're kicking off our new ESIM seminar series. Interested? All info can be found here.
[January '22] Our paper titled "COVID-19, Green Deal & the recovery plan permanently change emissions and prices in EU ETS Phase IV" has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications.
[November '21] I was consulted by VRT NWS for an article on the impact of new gas-fired power stations in Belgium on European CO2 emissions under the EU ETS: "Brengen extra gascentrales de Europese klimaatdoelstellingen in gevaar?" by Rob Heirbaut.
[November '21] I will speak about the EU ETS in the Fit for 55 Package at FSR's Annual Climate Conference. Slides can be found here.
[October '21] I presented my research on the coordination of bounded rational electricity consumers in short-term electricity markets at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. Steffen Kaminski will discuss our work on risk-aversion and strategic behavior in capacity renumeration mechanisms. Mihaly Dolanyi will discuss neural network constrained optimization as an alternative to MPECs. I will also host a panel on Advanced game-theoretic models in energy market and policy design on October 26th (3-4:30 p.m. CET).
[October '21] We're launching a new series of seminars for PhD students. Interested to attend or to present? Don't hesitate to get in touch!
[October '21] Our paper titled "Adequacy aware long-term energy-system optimization models considering stochastic peak demand" has been accepted for publication in Advances in Applied Energy, a new sister journal of Applied Energy in which the top 1-2% of papers from Applied Energy are published under Gold Open Access.
[October '21] Our paper titled "Improved selection of critical network elements for flow-based market coupling based on congestion patterns" has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy.
[September '21] Our paper titled "Automatic Risk Adjustment for Profit Maximization in Renewable Dominated Short-Term Electricity Markets" has been accepted for publication in International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems.
[September '21] Anke Uyterhoeven presented our paper titled "Data-driven estimation of parametric uncertainty of reduced order RC models for building climate control" at the IBPSA Building Simulation Conference in Bruges, Belgium.
[August '21] Our paper titled "Enhanced integration of flow-based market coupling in short-term adequacy assessments" has been accepted for publication in Electric Power Systems Research.
[August '21] We have a fully funded PhD position available on the topic "MODELLING ELECTRICITY CONSUMERS’ DECISION MAKING PROCESSES IN THE ADOPTION OF DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES AND THE PROVISION OF FLEXIBILITY'. You can apply here.
[July '21] I've been awarded a "Golden Chalk Award" by VTK for the course "Optimization Problems in Energy Systems".
[June '21] We have a fully funded PhD position available on the topic "INCENTIVES AND PRICING IN ENERGY POSITIVE DISTRICTS". You can apply here.
[June '21] I will be speaking at KBVE-SRBE's webinar on "Balancing the grid" on June 10, 2021.
[May '21] Our paper titled "Long term storage in generation expansion planning models with a reduced temporal scope" has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy.
[May '21] Our paper titled "On the Temporal Granularity of Joint Energy- Reserve Markets in a high-RES system" has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy.
[May '21] We have a fully funded PhD position available on the topic "INDUSTRIAL DECARBONIZATION AND REPRESENTATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN ENERGY SYSTEM MODELS". You can apply here.
[May '21] Our paper titled "Forward-looking distribution network charges considering lumpy investments" has been published in the Journal of Regulatory Economics.
[April '21] I will be speaking about optimization problems encountered in energy systems and markets at the 16th IEEE Leuven Student Branch Power System Symposium.
[April '21] Our paper titled "Toward understanding flow-based market coupling : An open-access model " has been accepted for publicaton in Advances in Applied Energy, a new sister journal of Applied Energy in which the top 1-2% of papers from Applied Energy are published under Gold Open Access.
[April '21] Our paper titled "Data-driven forecasting of local PV generation for stochastic PV-battery system management" has been accepted for publicaton in the International Journal of Energy Research.
[March '21] I was interviewed by De Tijd for a short article on the rising European Emission Allowance prices.
[March '21] I've been appointed as a member of the IEEE European Public Policy Program Working Group on Energy.
[March '21] I was interviewed by Knack Magazine for a fact check on the impact of new gas-fired power plants on Belgian and European CO2 emissions (dutch).
[March '21] I will be acting as a jury member in the examination committee of Tim Mertens' PhD defense (KU Leuven) on March 15th.
[February '21] I will be speaking at the Florence School of Regulation's Workshop on "Methane Emissions from the Energy Sector and the EU Emission Trading System" (slides available upon request).
[February '21] Our paper titled "Managing Risks Faced by Strategic Battery Storage in Joint Energy-Reserve Markets" has been accepted for publicaton in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
[February '21] I've been awarded an "Outstanding Reviewer Award" by the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
[January '21] Our paper titled "Capacity credit of storage in long-term planning models and capacity markets" has been accepted for publicaton in Electric Power Systems Research.
[December '20] Our paper titled "Data-Driven Scheduling of Energy Storage in Day-Ahead Energy and Reserve Markets with Probabilistic Guarantees on Real-Time Delivery" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
[November '20] I discussed our work on the interaction between aggregators and residential demand response providers at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. You can find the presentation here. I also chaired a session on "Advanced Game-Theoretic Models in Energy Market & Policy Design", Jean-François Toubeau presented our research on data-driven scheduling of energy storage systems [working paper], Niels Govaerts discussed our work on coincident peak pricing in distribution networks [working paper] and Mihaly Dolanyi discussed our method to discover multiple equilibria in oligopolistic electricity markets [working paper]. All presentations are available for the next 3 months via the INFORMS Annual Meeting platform.
[August '20] I discussed our research on the European Emission Trading System and the Market Stability Reserve at a IAEE Webinar. The recording of the webinar can be found here. The presentation can be downloaded here.
[August '20] I discussed our research on the interaction between demand response aggregators, electricity markets and demand response providers at the IEEE PES GM. You can find the presentation here.
[April '20] Our paper titled "Facilitating renewables and power-to-gas via integrated electrical power-gas system scheduling" has been accepted for publication by Applied Energy.
[April '20] I've been awarded an "Outstanding Reviewer Award" by the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
[March '20] Our paper titled "Impact of generator start-up lead times on short-term scheduling with high shares of renewables" has been accepted for publication by Applied Energy.
[March '20] Our paper titled "The Long-Term Impact of the Market Stability Reserve on the EU Emission Trading System" has been accepted for publication by Energy Economics.
[February '20] Michiel Kenis (former MSc student, now PhD student in our research group) has been awarded the "CREG Master Thesis" award for his MSc dissertation on "Strategic Participation of Coalitions of Wind Power Producers on Electricity Markets".
[Oktober '19] Michiel Kenis (former MSc student, now PhD student in our research group) has been awarded the "Academic Energy Manager of the Year" award for his MSc dissertation on "Strategic Participation of Coalitions of Wind Power Producers on Electricity Markets".
[September '19] I've started as a senior post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders in the Energy Systems Integration & Modeling Research Group.