Fondation Louvain
Financement: Electrabel, Belgium
Researcher:Céline Gérard/
Date: September 2017-September 2020
Although a substantial amount of demand response resides in the residential sector, the mobilization of residential demand response has fallen short of expectations. The participation of residential flexibility in wholesale electricity markets can have a disruptive impact on the industry. Inspired by our collaboration with MIT start-up ZOME, we analyze the long-run impact of residential demand response on the profitability of various technologies through long-run equilibrium models of electricity markets.
Financement: Kronos Group, Belgium
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Date: September 2017-September 2020
The Kronos Group Chair "Stratetic Sourcing and Procurement" is the fruit of a collaboration between Kronos Group and Louvain School of Management of the UCLouvain. The objective of the Chair is to promote research and education in the sourcing and procurement domain, contributing to fostering the profession to continue its transformation into a value creating and strategic profession. The Chair is unique for Belgium and also launching a unique Master's level specialization in sourcing and procurement in Belgium, integrated in Louvain School of Management. The research in the Chair aims at empirical, economic and strategic studies of procurement under transformation, in particular the innovative, ethical and environmental dimensions of the area.
Coordinator: Anthony Papavasiliou
Financement: Electrabel
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Date: February 2016-October 2020
The large-scale integration of renewable energy sources is creating increasing needs for flexibility. The optimal dispatch of conventional resources of a sub-hourly time scale in order to prevent binding ramping constraints is increasing the challenges of short-term operations. This project aims at developing optimization models and algorithms that can support the optimal utilization of generator flexibility in short-term operations.
Coordinator: Anthony Papavasiliou
Financement: Fonds de Recherche Pierre et Colette Bauchau
Researcher: Daniel Avila
Date: April 2018-December 2020
Africa has recently set ambitious renewable energy integration targets, best exemplified through the adoption of the African Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI) as well as by the large number of renewable infrastructure projects that are underway. The goals of this project are:
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To develop tools for optimizing the use of electricity in existing electric power systems, in particular optimally managing utility-scale storage in a system dominated by solar production;
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To develop tools for planning for future renewable systems, in particular randomized algorithms for obtaining optimal transmission expansion plans subject to net load and component outage uncertainty with probabilistic guarantees of optimality;
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Operating future distributed energy systems which rely less on centralized fossil fuel resources and more on decentralized renewable resources.
Move-in Louvain
Researcher:Leonardo Madio (CORE)
Date: August 2018-March 2020
This research project aims to investigate how the growing availability of instruments to i) block the invasiveness of ads and profiling, and ii) to protect individual privacy might or might not lead to unintended effects for the different economic agents