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 …
The list of workshops for the ICAPS conference in Delft (June 25-26 2018) has been published. All have deadlines early March 2018 and notifications in April. Please click the links below for details. Acronym Workshop Organizers COPLAS Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Roman Bartak Miguel Salido HSDIP Heuristics …
The future energy systems needs smart algorithms. Matthijs Spaan and I spoke two hours about Smart Algorithms for Smart Grids (see presentation slides at Kivi or at SpeakerDeck) as part of the Data Science master class for engineers from the Kivi institute. Many intelligent systems aim to make sequences of …
When flexible electrical loads share remaining network capacity, the exact capacity available is usually not known in advance. Furthermore, there may be periods where there is no communication possible. Last week Frits de Nijs (as first author) submitted the final (camera-ready) version of a paper with Matthijs Spaan and me …
When organizations are putting significant effort in innovations and pilot projects and as scientists we have our doubts about the theoretical foundations of the new approach, I strongly believe it is our obligation to warn those organizations. Of course this is particularly the case if these are governmental organizations that …
This week my first journal paper with German Morales was published. It is titled Robust Unit Commitment with Dispatchable Wind Power and published open-access in the journal on Electric Power Systems Research. German joined our group as a post-doc on the Gaming beyond the Copper Plate (GCP) project, where he …
With Matthijs Spaan and help of many others, we are organizing the 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) in Delft. We have just sent out the call for papers. Please submit! The ICAPS 2018 program committee invites paper submissions related to automated planning and scheduling. Relevant contributions …