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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Computer Science (CS) students need to learn about more than just pure CS. With the advancement of electronic markets, game theory turns out to be relevant for CS in many real-life situations. Where before, the matching of residents to hospitals and of kidney donors to patients through a nation-wide program were …