Deep reinforcement learning is an AI technique for choosing how to act in different situations repeatedly occurring over time. It has shown tremendous success in playing games, such as ATARI video games, chess, Go, and StarCraft, going as far as beating professional human players. While games present certain interesting scientific …
Every study about the energy transition stresses the importance of the role of flexible demand of electricity: when electricity comes from sun or wind, it needs to be used at those moments when it is available (as electricity is difficult to store for later use). A second use of the …
This time I posted an article on LinkedIn, celebrating the successful completion of our project on Future-Proof Flexible Charging.
I was interviewed by Martijn Engelsman for a blog post on the website of our faculty on algorithms. I explained my vision on “A fair energy transition”. Mark Prins took my picture. Please see here for the complete blog.
Longjian Piao works on market design for DC distribution grids. Such grids are currently used only within single buildings, greenhouses, for street lamps, and on ships, but the rise of distributed generation (e.g. by solar panels) makes it interesting to also consider DC grids with multiple generators and users. If …
This was the first time I acted as a promotor after having been co-promotor several times. I was very happy it happened to be Frits. Together with him we started the work on the use of artificial intelligence in smart grids. His thesis on Resource-constrained Multi-agent Markov Decision Processes is …
Distribution network operators are facing challenging times. The share of renewable generation is increasing, but this source of power generation is intermittent, while power needs to be balanced at all times. Simultaneously, there is an increase in demand, for example caused by electric cars, heat pumps and electric boilers, since …
Electricity markets have a fundamental flaw. Electrical energy is traded in (quartly) hourly slots (PTUs) and it does not matter when during this interval the energy is generated (or consumed). However, power generated needs to equal power consumed at all times. In the European synchronous zone, this leads to frequency …