Jalal Kazempour

The 9th edition of the DTU PES Summer School concluded successfully, hosting 70 participants from 25+ countries selected from over 150 applications. The 2026 edition was led by Lesia, alongside co-organizers Johanna Vorwerk, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, and myself. Speakers included Ricardo Bessa, Luiz Barroso, Thomas Dalgas Fechtenburg, Henrik Sandberg, Sonja Wogrin, Martin Bichler, Sijia Geng, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Lena Kitzing, Lesia Mitridati, and Johanna Vorwerk. Participant feedback was outstanding: 98% would recommend the school, and 99% rated the overall organisation as good or excellent.

Welcome to our new PhD student, Rasmus Thorgaard [ DTU | LinkedIn ]. Rasmus is an industrial PhD in partnership with the Danish Utility Regulator (Forsyningstilsynet), co-funded by Innovation Fund Denmark. With an economics background from the University of Copenhagen, he will develop algorithms for "detection of intraday market distortions" with a particular focus on capacity hoarding. He will be co-supervised by Casper Bjerregaard (Forsyningstilsynet), Lesia, and myself.

Welcome to our new PhD student, Gloria Tintoré Vidal [ DTU | LinkedIn ]. Gloria joins the Data Unlocked project, funded by EUDP, and will work on "privacy-preserving data sharing for line congestion forecasting" with a primary use case in collaboration with Energinet, ENFOR A/S, and PowerLabDK, and additional use cases with Watts, Green Power Denmark, and Neogrid Technologies. She will be co-supervised by Lesia and myself.

Granted! Our project Nordic-SEC has been funded by Innovation Fund Denmark under the Grand Solutions Programme. The project aims to close the loop in Nordic TSO coordination for enhanced grid security and cost efficiency, and will run from April 2026 to March 2030 in collaboration with Nordic RCC and Energinet. The project is led by Lesia and me as co-PIs. Two PhD positions are upcoming. More details on the Projects page.

Congratulations to my great colleague, Lesia, on her promotion to Associate Professor.

Accepted! Our paper "Scenario-spatial decomposition approach with a performance guarantee for the combined bidding of cascaded hydropower and renewables" by Luca Santosuosso, Simon Camal, Arthur Lett, Guillaume Bontron, JK, and Georges Kariniotakis has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems [ link | arXiv ].

Accepted! Our paper "Bidding in ancillary service markets: An analytical approach using extreme value theory" by Torine Reed Herstad, JK, Lesia Mitridati, and Bert Zwart has been accepted for publication in Computational Management Science [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

Accepted! Our paper "Dynamic dimensioning of frequency containment reserves: The case of the Nordic grid" by Jöbke Janssen, Alessandro Zocca, Bert Zwart, and JK has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

Accepted! Our paper "Electricity market bidding for renewable electrolyzer plants: An opportunity cost approach" by Andrea Gloppen Johnsen, Lesia Mitridati, JK, and Line Roald has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

Accepted! Our paper "Hedging hydrogen: Planning and contracting under uncertainty for a green hydrogen producer" by Owen Palmer, Hugo Radet, Simon Camal, JK, and Robin Girard has been accepted for publication in Energy Economics [ link | arXiv ].

Accepted! Our paper "The value of ancillary services for electrolyzers" by Andrea Gloppen Johnsen, Lesia Mitridati, Donato Zarrilli, and JK has been accepted for publication in Computers & Chemical Engineering [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

Accepted! Our paper "Towards replication-robust analytics markets" by Thomas Falconer, JK, and Pierre Pinson has been accepted for publication in the INFORMS Journal on Data Science [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

Accepted! Our paper "Privacy-preserving convex optimization: When differential privacy meets stochastic programming" by Vladimir Dvorkin, Ferdinando Fioretto, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Pierre Pinson, and JK has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2025), Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, December 2025 [ arXiv | GitHub ].

Accepted! Our paper "Electricity-aware bid format for coordinated heat and electricity market clearing" by Lesia Mitridati, Pascal Van Hentenryck, and JK has been accepted for presentation at the 14th DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics, Aachen, Germany [ arXiv ].

Funding granted! Our project “Data Unlocked: Privacy Preservation, Public Sharing, and Added Value Creation” has been awarded funding by EUDP. The total grant amounts to 9.5 million DKK (approximately 1.27 million EUR), with 61% allocated to the EMA section. We are excited to collaborate with our industrial partners: Energinet, NeoGrid, Enfor, Green Power Denmark, Watts, PowerLab DK, and Radius. Looking forward to embarking on this important project!

Funding granted! Our Industrial PhD project with Energinet has been awarded funding by Innovation Fund Denmark. Under the project titled “Dynamic and Multi-Area Reserve Dimensioning for Balancing of the Electricity Grid”, Valdemar Søgaard will pursue his PhD, supervised by Lesia Mitridati (DTU), Thomas Dalgas (Energinet), Anders Runge Walther (Energinet), and myself.

Elevated to senior member of INFORMS.

The 8th edition of the DTU PES Summer School took place. You can read more in my LinkedIn post [ here ]. Video recordings are publicly available [ here ].

Video recordings of all my lectures for the MSc course "Renewables in Electricity Markets" are now publicly available [ here ].

Accepted! Our paper "Betting vs. trading: Learning a linear decision policy for selling wind power and hydrogen" by Yannick Heiser, Farzaneh Pourahmadi, and JK has been accepted for presentation at the 12th Bulk Power System Dynamics and Control Symposium (IREP 2025). See you in Sorrento, Italy this June! [ link | arXiv | GitHub ]

Accepted! Our paper "Day-ahead bidding strategies for wind farm operators under a one-price balancing scheme" by Max Bruninx, Timothy Verstraeten, JK, and Jan Helsen has been accepted for presentation at the ACM e-Energy 2025, The 6th International Workshop on Energy Data and Analytics (EDA). See you in Rotterdam, Netherlands this June! [ arXiv ]

Delivered an invited talk on "Data-driven optimization with contextual information for selling wind power and hydrogen" at the NTNU/NHH Winter School 2025 in Kvitfjell, Norway [ slides ].

Accepted! Our paper "Learning prosumer behavior in energy communities: Integrating bilevel programming and online learning" by Bennevis Crowley, JK, Lesia Mitridati, and Mahnoosh Alizadeh has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

Accepted! Our paper "Aggregator of electric vehicles bidding in Nordic FCR-D markets: A chance-constrained program" by Gustav Lunde, Emil Damm, Peter A. V. Gade, and JK has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems [ link | arXiv | GitHub | video ].

Accepted! Our paper "Contracting strategies for electrolyzers to secure grid connection: The Dutch case" by Thomas Swarts, JK, Wouter van den Akker, Johan Morren, Arjan van Voorden, Han Slootweg has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE PowerTech Conference 2025. See you in Kiel, Germany in June! [ arXiv ]

Joined the Expert Group on "EU-wide Flexibility Needs Assessment" at the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) [link].

Accepted! Our paper "How can energy communities provide grid services? A dynamic pricing mechanism with budget balance, individual rationality, and fair allocation" by Bennevis Crowley, JK, and Lesia Mitridati has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

Delivered my inaugural lecture as a DTU professor [ slides | video ]

Accepted! Our paper "Flexibility of integrated power and gas systems: Gas flow modeling and solution choices matter" by Enrica Raheli, Yannick Werner, and JK has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

As our study trip in 2024, the EMA Section travelled London together to visit Imperial College London for a joint seminar, hosted by Pierre Pinson, Fei Teng, and Elina Spyrou. See my post on LinkedIn [ here ].

Licio Romao [ DTU | Personal webpage ] joined the EMA Section as our new tenure-track Assistant Professor. Welcome Licio! See my post on LinkedIn [ here ].

Marco Saretta [ DTU | LinkedIn | Google Scholar ] joined the EMA group as an Industrial PhD Student with DTU and Rambøll (co-funded by Innovation Fund Denmark and Rambøll Fonden). Over the next three years, Marco will work on his project "Commoditizing green hydrogen in Europe: From efficient market design to optimal contracting and investment" under the supervision of myself, together with Søren Møller Thomsen (Rambøll) and Enrica Raheli (Rambøll). Welcome Marco!

Peter Gade successfully defended his PhD thesis “Bringing demand-side flexibility to ancillary service markets” [ Manuscript | slides | video ]. Congrats Peter! Thanks to the three examiners, Johanna Mathieu, Pierluigi Mancarella, and Kai Heussen. Peter was an industrial PhD student with DTU and IBM.

Promoted to a full professor!

Accepted! Our paper "Leveraging P90 requirement: Flexible resources bidding in Nordic ancillary service markets" by Peter A. V. Gade, Henrik W. Bindner, and JK has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE SmartGridComm 2024 Conference. See you in Oslo in September! [ arXiv | GitHub ]

Accepted! Our paper "Energy-intensive industries providing ancillary services: A real case of zinc galvanizing process" by Peter A. V. Gade, Trygve Skjøtskift, Henrik W. Bindner, and JK has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE SmartGridComm 2024 Conference. See you in Oslo in September! [ arXiv | GitHub ]

Accepted! Our paper "Bayesian regression markets" by Thomas Falconer, JK, and Pierre Pinson has been accepted for publication in Journal of Machine Learning Research [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

In the last two weeks, I presented our recent work on the P90 requirement of Energinet (Danish system operator) for bidding in Nordic ancillary service markets at DTU PES Summer School 2024, in an invited panel at PSCC 2024 in Paris, and as a keynote speaker at European Energy Markets (EEM 2024) conference in Istanbul. Please check [ slides | paper 1 | paper 2 ].

The 7th edition of DTU PES Summer School was organized in the period of May 27-31, 2024 with 60 attendees from all over the world (selected among 160+ applicants) and 6 external lecturers, including David Newbery (Univ of Cambridge), Pierluigi Mancarella (Univ of Melbourne), Line Roald (UW Madison), Mahnoosh Alizadeh (UC Santa Barbara), Rodrigo Moreno (Univ of Chile), Carleton Coffrin (Los Alamos National Lab), and four speakers from DTU. You can find all presentation slides [ here ]. The playlist of all video recordings is also available [ here ]. Looking forward to welcoming you for the next summer school during the last week of May 2025.

Yannick Heiser [ LinkedIn ] joined the EMA section as a PhD student to work on "Data-driven optimization and machine learning for operation and control of PtX hybrid plants" over the next three years, being supervised by Farzaneh Pourahmadi, Lesia Mitridati, and myself (primal supervisor). Yannick received his MSc degree in Physics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Accepted! Our paper "Unit commitment predictor with a performance guarantee: A support vector machine classifier" by Farzaneh Pourahmadi and JK has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

Accepted! Our paper "Learning to bid in forward electricity markets using a no-regret algorithm" by Arega Getaneh Abate, Dorsa Majdi, JK, and Maryam Kamgarpour has been accepted for presentation at the Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC 2024). See you in Paris in June! The paper will also be published in Electric Power Systems Research [ arXiv | GitHub ].

Accepted! Our paper "Feature-driven strategies for trading wind power and hydrogen" by Emil Helgren, JK, and Lesia Mitridati has been accepted for presentation at the Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC 2024). See you in Paris in June! The paper will also be published in Electric Power Systems Research [ arXiv | GitHub ].

Accepted! Our paper "Load shifting versus manual frequency reserve: Which one is more appealing to thermostatically controlled loads in Denmark?" by Peter A. V. Gade, Trygve Skjøtskift, Charalampos Ziras, Henrik W. Bindner, and JK has been accepted for publication in Electric Power Systems Research [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

Yannick Werner successfully defended his PhD thesis “Modeling electrolyzers and gas networks for integration with power systems” [ Manuscript ]. Congrats Yannick! Thanks Ruud Egging (NTNU) for the co-supervision, and thanks the examination committee, Victor Zavala (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Stein-Erik Fleten (NTNU), and Bissan Ghaddar (DTU).

I gave a talk as an invited speaker at the 3rd Champéry Power Conference on "Electric vehicles bidding in Nordic flexibility markets: A distributionally robust chance-constrained program" [ slides ]. Thanks Florian Dörfler and Philippe Jacquod for the invitation.

Accepted! Our paper "On the efficiency of energy markets with non-merchant storage" by Linde Frölke, Eléa Prat, Pierre Pinson, Richard M. Lusby, and JK has been accepted for publication in Energy Systems [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

Read my interview with TU Delft on priorities for the energy transition, barriers, and modelling [ here ].

Enrica Raheli successfully defended her PhD thesis “Physics-Aware Operation of Power-to-X and Natural Gas Systems” [ Manuscript | slides | video ]. Congrats Enrica! Thanks to the three examiners, Line Roald, Josh Taylor, and Chresten Traeholt, and the chairperson at defense, Lesia Mitridati.

Appointed as an Associate Editor for the Operations Research journal in the Energy and Environment Area. It is the flagship journal for the INFORMS community.

Appointed as an Associate Editor for the Operations Research journal in the Energy and Environment Area, effective from January 1, 2024. It is the flagship journal for the INFORMS community.

Accepted! Our paper "Electrolysis as a flexibility resource on energy islands: The case of the North sea" by Alexandra Lüth, Yannick Werner, Ruud Egging-Bratseth, and JK has been accepted for publication in Energy Policy [ link | PDF | GitHub ].

Our [ Paper ] received the "Best Paper Award" of the IEEE SmartGridComm 2023 Conference in Glasgow, UK.

Together with Andrea Gloppen Johnsen, we delivered a 5-hour tutorial at the Smart Energy and Stochastic Optimization (SESO 2023) Workshop of École des Ponts ParisTech, France, on "Power-to-X: Portfolio management of hybrid power plants".

Accepted! Our paper "A conic model for electrolyzer scheduling" by Enrica Raheli, Yannick Werner, and JK has been accepted for publication in Computers & Chemical Engineering [ link | arXiv ].

Delivered a keynote talk at TU Delft PowerWeb Institute Conference (10th anniversary) on "Mathematical programming for the market integration of power-to-X hybrid power plants: The case of a plant in Denmark" [ video | slides ].

Invited to give a talk on "Selling demand-side flexibility in Danish ancillary service markets" [ slides ] at the EPFL Evolution of Electricity Markets Workshop 2023.

The EMA section has visited TU Delft [ news ]. You can check our slides [ here ], introducing the EMA section and our current research activities.

Accepted! Our paper "Electrolyzer scheduling for Nordic FCR services" by Marco Saretta, Enrica Raheli, and JK has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE SmartGridComm 2023, Glasgow, Scotland, November 2023 [ arXiv | PDF | GitHub ].

Accepted! Our paper "Synergy among flexible demands: Forming a coalition to earn more from reserve market" by Peter A. V. Gade, Trygve Skjøtskift, Henrik W. Bindner, and JK has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE SmartGridComm 2023, Glasgow, Scotland, November 2023 [ PDF | GitHub ].

We organized DTU PES Summer School 2023. Thanks to our external speakers: Florian Dorfler, Ram Rajagopal, Antoine Lesage-Landry, Juan Miguel Morales González, Ferdinando Fioretto, Lykke Mulvad Jeppesen, and Gaudenz Koeppel. All slides [ here ] and video recordings [ here ] are publicly available. Looking forward to our next summer school in 2024!

Accepted! Our paper "Online decision making for trading wind energy" by Miguel Angel Muñoz, Pierre Pinson, and JK has been accepted for publication in Computational Management Science [ link | arXiv ].

Alice Patig [ LinkedIn ] will stay three years more with the EMA section, this time as a PhD student. She was with the EMA section as a Research Assistant during the last six months. Alice received her MSc degree in Electrical Enginnering from the Univeristy of Edinburgh. During her PhD, Alice will be involved in our ongoing EUDP-funded ViPES2X project with Hybrid Greentech, Siemens Gamesa, Lhyfe, and Imperial College London.

Accepted! Our paper "Optimization of hybrid power plants: When is a detailed electrolyzer model necessary?" by Manuel Tobias Baumhof, Enrica Raheli, Andrea Gloppen Johnsen, and JK has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE PowerTech Conference 2023, Belgrade, Serbia, June 2023 [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].

I gave a lecture on "portfolio management of hybrid power plants" at NTNU/NHH Winter School 2023 [link] in Geilo, Norway [ slides ].

Linde Frölke [LinkedIn] successfully defended her PhD thesis "market design for future district heating systems" [ thesis | slides | video ] . Congrats Linde! Thanks to the examination committee, Sonja Wogrin, Erik Delarue, and Shi You.

Farzaneh Pourahmadi [LinkedIn] joined the EMA section as a researcher. She received her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 2019. Before joining DTU, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School. During the next three years, she will be mostly working on her DFF project "Combining learning and optimization for faster green transition".

Bob Pepin [LinkedIn] joined the EMA section as a postdoctoral fellow. He received his PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Luxembourg in 2018. Before joining DTU, he was a senior AI specialist at Alexandra Institute, Denmark. During the next one year, he will be working on "data-driven operation of power systems and digitalization".

Appointed by the Dean as the Head of Studies for DTU master program "Sustainable Energy Systems", effective from February 1, 2023. Read about the program here.

Accepted! Our paper "A market for trading forecasts: A wagering mechanism" by Aitazaz Ali Raja, Pierre Pinson, JK, and Sergio Grammatico has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Forecasting, forthcoming [ link | arXiv ].

It was a pleasure giving an invited webinar on coordination of power, heat, and gas markets for the IEEE PES Spain. Thanks Prof. Antonio Gomez-Exposito (University of Seville) for the invitation!

Arega Getaneh Abate [ Homepage ], the recipient of the EuroTechPostdoc2 Programme fellowship, joined the EMA section as a postdoctoral fellow. He received his PhD degree in Mathematical Methods of Economics, Finance, and Actuarial Sciences, from Brescia University, Italy, in 2021. During the next 2 years, he will be working on "AI-assisted electricity market design for sustainability", in collaboration with Maryam Kamgarpour (EPFL) and me.

Accepted! Our paper A. Ratha, P. Pinson, H. Le Cadre, A. Virag, and J. Kazempour, "Moving from linear to conic markets for electricity," has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Operational Research. [ link | arXiv ]

Accepted! Our paper A. Arrigo, J. Kazempour, Z. De Grève, J.-F. Toubeau, and F. Vallée, "Embedding dependencies between wind farms in distributionally robust optimal power flow," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. [ link | arXiv ]

Accepted! Our paper P. A. V. Gade, T. Skjøtskift, H. Bindner, and J. Kazempour, "Ecosystem for demand-side flexibility revisited: The Danish solution," has been accepted for publication in The Electricity Journal. [ link | arXiv ]

The EMA section had a pleasure to visit KU Leuven (Belgium), have a joint seminar, group discussions, and a tour to beautiful Leuven. Thanks Erik Delarue, Dirk Van Hertem, and all their group members for hosting us. Find a group picture on LinkedIn here.

Congrats to Adriano Arrigo on defending his PhD thesis "Advanced uncertainty- and physics-aware optimization for energy systems operation" ( PDF | slides ), completed at the University of Mons, Belgium. It was a pleasure co-supervising his PhD together with Prof. François Vallée (University of Mons). Thanks to Jury: Prof. Yury Dvorkin (Johns Hopkins University), Prof. Kenneth Bruninx (TU Delft), Prof. Bertrand Cornélusse (University of Liège), Prof. Daniel Tuyttens (UMons), Dr. Jean-François Toubeau (UMons), Prof. Zacharie De Grève (UMons), and Prof. Christophe Caucheteur (UMons).

Accepted! Our paper N. Vespermann, T. Hamacher, and J. Kazempour, "On ambiguity-averse market equilibrium," has been accepted for publication in Optimization Letters. [ link | PDF ]

Elected as an Executive Board member for EES-UETP.

Lesia Mitridati [ homepage ] joined the the EMA section as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. She received her PhD from DTU in 2019, and has been a postdoc at Georgia Tech and ETH Zurich. Welcome Lesia!

Alice Patig [ LinkedIn ] jonied the EMA section as a Research Assistant. She received her MSc degree in Electrical Enginnering from the Univeristy of Edinburgh. Alice will be involved in our ongoing HOMEY project with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. Welcome Alice!

Presented an invited survey paper at PSCC 2022 in Porto on "Power Systems Optimization under Uncertainty" together with Line Roald, David Pozo, Anthony Papavasiliou, Dan Molzahn, and Antonio Conejo. [ PDF ]

Joined Study Committee C5 of CIGRE "Electricity Markets and Regulation"

Congratulations to Anubhav Ratha on defending his PhD thesis with title "Market Design for Integrated Energy Systems of the Future" [ PDF | slides | video ]. Special thanks to Prof. Miguel F. Anjos (University of Edinburgh), Prof. Alexandre Street (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), and Prof. Spyros Chatzivasileiadis (DTU) for examining his thesis. Anubhav stayed with us at the ELMA group (now EMA section) for the last four years, and completed his PhD theses under the supervision of Prof. Pierre Pinson, Ana Virag, and myself. Good luck Anubhav with your next career as a Data Scientist at Vestas.

Andrea Gloppen Johnsen [ LinkedIn ] joined the EMA section as a PhD student to work on market-based operation of power-to-X assets. She will be involved in the EUDP-funded HOMEY project in collaboration with Siemens Gamesa. Andrea received her MSc degree in Sustainable Energy from DTU. Welcome Andrea!

Thomas Falconer [ LinkedIn ] joined the EMA section as a PhD student to work on AI for electricty market deisgn. He received his MSc degree in Energy Systems and Data Analytics from UCL. Welcome Thomas!

DTU Summer School 2022 [ link ]: 108 applications received, 55% accepted. Looking forward to meeting you in Copenhagen on June 19-24, 2022. All video lectures will be publicly uploaded here. Update in August 2022: videos posted online.

Our paper has been selected as one of the 8 "Best Papers" of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems in the period of 2019-2021. [ link ]

Niklas Vespermann defended his PhD thesis "Market design for Energy Communities" [ PDF | slides ] at the Technical Univeristy of Munich. I have served as his co-supervisor. Congratulations Niklas!

Accepted! Our paper P. Pinson, L. Han, and J. Kazempour, "Regression markets and application to energy forecasting," has been accepted for publication in TOP. [ arXiv ]

Invited to give a seminar on "Data Markets for Energy" at NTNU Winter School 2022 (Oppdal, Norway) and at the University of Copenhagen (both Department of Computer Science and Department of Economics). Slides are available here.

Appointed as the chair of Best Paper Award Committee of INFORMS ENRE in Energy for 2022.

All four submissions of our group have been accepted for presentation at Power Systems Computation Confernece (PSCC 2022). Looking forward to meeting you in Porto in June!L. Han, P. Pinson, and J. Kazempour, "Trading data for wind power forecasting: A regression market with lasso regularization". [ arXiv ]V. Dvorkin, D. Mallapragada, A. Botterud, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, "Multi-stage linear decision rules for stochastic control of natural gas networks with linepack". [ arXiv ]J. Shin, Y. Werner, and J. Kazempour, "Modeling gas flow directions as state variables: Does it provide more flexibility to power systems?". [ arXiv ]L. Frölke, I.-M. Palm, and J. Kazempour, "Market integration of excess heat". [ arXiv ]

HOMEY project has been granted funding by EDUP (total budget: 8.7 million DKK). We will develop a range of H2-driven portfolio management and business models for hybrid power plants (electrolyzers+wind+PV+battery) under uncertainty, and demonstrate our solutions in a real pilot of Siemens Gamesa in Denmark.

Bennevis Crowley joined the ELMA group as a PhD student, funded by the FLEX-CEC project (EUDP) and DTU Elektro. He will be primarily working on "privacy-based market deisgn for energy communities".

Our project entitled "Sustainable P2X Business Model" has been granted funding by Energy Cluster Denmark and Ørsted (total budget: 800,000 DKK).

Invited to give a 4-hour tutorial at TACEMM 2021, Aalto Univeristy, Finland, on "Flexibility and coordination in energy systems," organized by Trans-Atlantic Cooperation on Energy Market Models (TACEMM) [link].

Liyang Han presented our recent work "A data market under a lasso regression framework" at MIT webinar [Video | Paper1 | Paper2].

Invited to give an online lecture on "The role of aggregators and demand flexibility in electricity markets" at UIMP, Sevilla, Spain. Thanks Prof. Antonio Gomez Exposito for the invitation. [slides]

Served as an examination committee member for the PhD thesis of Kai Zhang at TU Munich with title "Spot pricing principles in distribution grids: From local market organization to multi-regional coordination". Congrats Kai!

Aitazaz Ali Raja (TU Delft) and Miguel Angel Muñoz (University of Malaga) joined the ELMA group as guest PhD students. They will be with the ELMA group for 6 and 3 months, respectively.

Accepted! Our paper V. Dvorkin, A. Ratha, P. Pinson, and J. Kazempour, "Stochastic control and pricing for natural gas networks," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. The paper is available [here].

Accepted! Our paper A. Hermann, T. V. Jensen, J. Østergaard, and J. Kazempour, "A complementarity model for electric power transmission-distribution coordination under uncertainty," has been accepted for publication in European Journal of Operational research. The paper is available [here].

Flex-CEC project has been granted funding by EDUP (total budget: 9.6 million DKK). We will design a parivay-aware market for energy communities and demostrate it in several pilots in Denmark.

Peter Gade joined the ELMA group as an Industrial PhD student with IBM. He will work on "Investment model for power flexibility services".

Appointed as the new leader of the research group "Energy Analytics and Markets" (ELMA) at DTU Electrical Engineering Department.

Accepted! Our paper A. Schwele, C. Ordoudis, P. Pinson, and J. Kazempour, "Coordination of power and natural gas markets via financial instruments," has been accepted for publication in Computational Management Science. The paper is available [here].

Accepted! Our paper C. Heinrich, C. Ziras, T. V. Jensen, H. W. Bindner, and J. Kazempour, "A local flexibility market mechanism with capacity limitation services," has been accepted for publication in Energy Policy. The paper is available [here].

Accepted! Our paper A. Arrigo, C. Ordoudis, J. Kazempour, Z. De Greve, J.-F. Toubeau, and F. Vallee, "Wasserstein distributionally robust chance-constrained optimization for energy and reserve dispatch: An exact and physically-bounded formulation," has been accepted for publication in European Journal of Operational research. The paper is available [here].

Served as an examination committee member for the PhD thesis of Xuejiao Han at ETH Zurich with title "Stochastic investment and dispatch optimization of distributed energy resources in a market environment". Congrats Jo!

Accepted! Our paper L. Bobo, L. Mitridati, J. A. Taylor, P. Pinson, and J. Kazempour, "Price-region bids in electricity markets," has been accepted for publication in European Journal of Operational research. The paper is available [here].

Congratulations to Vladimir Dvorkin on defending his PhD thesis with title "Stochastic and Private Energy System Optimization" [ video | thesis | slides ]. Special thanks to Prof. Alexander Shapiro (GeogiaTech), Prof. Adam Wierman (Caltech) and Prof. Spyros Chatzivasileiadis (DTU) for examining his thesis. Vladimir stayed with us at the ELMA group for the last four years, and completed his MSc and PhD theses with Prof. Pierre Pinson and myself. Big thanks to Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck and Prof. Ferdinando Fioretto for hosting Vladimir for six months at GeorgiaTech during his PhD, where he learned a lot about differential privacy. Good luck Vladimir with your next career as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT.

Invited to speak at the online seminar series of Rutgers Industrial and Systems Engineering. Thanks Prof. Aziz Ezzat for his invitation. I talked about "Risk trading in energy communities". [slides]

Three conference papers have been accepted for presentation in the IEEE PowerTech 2021 Conference in Madrid, June 2021. [ paper1 | paper 2 | paper 3 ]

Published! Our paper J. Østergaard, C. Ziras, H. W. Bindner, J. Kazempour, M. Marinelli, P. Markussen, S. H. Rosted, and J. S. Christensen, "Energy security through demand side flexibility: The case of Denmark,'' has been published in the IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 46-55, March-April 2021 [link].

Served as an examination committee member for the PhD thesis of Mana Farrokhseresht at TU Eindhoven (TU/e) with title "The coupled Market: Unlocking the potential of distributed energy resources in the electricty market". Congrats Mana!

Invited to continue serving as the chair of Energy-II cluster for INFORMS. This cluster organized 46 sessions at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2020.

Accepted! Our paper F. Pourahmadi and J. Kazempour, "Distributionally robust generation expansion planning with unimodality and risk constraints," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. The paper is available [here].

Joined the Technical Program Committee of Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC 2022).

Yannick Werner joined the ELMA group of DTU as a PhD student. Yannick received his BSc and MSc degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management from TU Berlin. He will work on systemic risk analysis in integrated multi-carrier energy systems. His project is funded by DTU alliance programme that promotes collaboration with NTNU (Norway). Yannick will be supervised by Prof. Ruud Egging (NTNU) and myself.

Funded! Innovation Fund Denmark funded our joint industrial PhD proposal with IBM on "Investment Models for Flexibility Trading".

I served as an examiner for the PhD thesis of Orcun Karaca (ETH Zurich) together with Prof. Sven Seuken (University of Zurich) and Prof. Neil Walton (University of Manchester). The title of his thesis is "On the theory and applications of mechanism design and coalitional games in electricity markets".

Anna Schwele defended her PhD thesis with title "Integration of electricity, natural gas and heat systems with market-based coordination" (thesis | slides | video). The examiners were Prof. Ramteen Sioshansi (The Ohio State University), Prof. Trine Boomsma (University of Copenhagen), and Prof. Qiuwei Wu (DTU).

INFORMS ENRE-Energy II cluster offers 46 sessions at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2020 with many interesting talks, all related to OR in Energy. I have been chairing this cluster in 2020.

I served as the chair of examination committee and an examiner for the PhD thesis of Andreas Venzke (DTU), together with Prof. Duncan Callaway (UC Berkeley) and Prof. Andy Sun (Georgia Tech). The title of his thesis is "Machine learning and convex optimization for secure power system operation".

Accepted! Our paper N. Vespermann, T. Hamacher, and J. Kazempour, “Access economy for storage in energy communities,” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. The paper is available [here].

Accepted! Our paper V. Dvorkin, F. Fioretto, P. Van Hentenryck, P. Pinson, and J. Kazempour, "Differentially private optimal power flow for distribution grids," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. The paper is available [here].

Accepted! Our paper N. Vespermann, T. Hamacher, and J. Kazempour, “Risk trading in energy communities,” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. The paper is available [here].

Invited speaker in the webinar series of The Operations, Planning, Accounting & Control (OPAC) group of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Risk trading in energy communities (slides | paper).

Appointed member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE PowerTech 2021.

Our paper [link] has been recognized with an honorable mention by INFORMS ENRE Best Publication Committee in 2020.

Invited panelist at the International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), Risk trading in energy communities (slides | paper).

Invited panelist at the IEEE PES General Meeting 2020, Coordination of electricity, heat, and natural gas systems accounting for network flexibility (slides | paper | video).

Accepted! Our paper V. Dvorkin, P. Van Hentenryck, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, "Differentially private distributed optimal power flow," has been accepted for presentation at CDC 2020. The paper is available here.

Liyang Han joined the ELMA group as a postdoctoral fellow. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oxford in 2020. Liyang will work on data market design for power systems.

Accepted! Our paper V. Dvorkin, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, "Chance-constrained equilibrium in electricity markets with asymmetric forecasts," has been accepted for presentation at PMAPS 2020. The paper is available [here].

Accepted! Our paper C. Ordoudis, S. Delikaraoglou, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, "Market-based coordination for integrated electricity and natural gas systems under uncertain supply," has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Operational Research. The paper is available [here].

Our two papers have been accepted for presentation at PSCC 2020 [paper1 | paper2].

Started serving as the cluster chair for the ENRE Energy II at INFORMS for 2020 and 2021!

We received 116 applications for attending DTU CEE Summer School 2020. This is a new record, as we have never received this amount of applications in the past four summer schools. Due to the number of available seats, the acceptance rate will be below 50%. Stay tuned and check out our website [here].

Accepted! Our paper L. Mitridati, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, "Design and game-theoretic analysis of community-based market mechanisms in heat and electricity systems," has been accepted for publication in Omega. The paper is available [here].

The 5th DTU CEE Summer School (21-26 June 2020) is now open for application! The focus will be on "Advanced optimization, learning, and game‐theoretic models in energy systems ". The application deadline is the end of January 2020. More info is available in our webpage [here].

Received the "best teacher" award of DTU Electrical Engineering Department for Spring Semester of 2019 (based on students' evaluation) [link].

Accepted! Our paper F. Pourahmadi, J. Kazempour, C. Ordoudis, P. Pinson, and S. H. Hosseini, "Distributionally robust chance-constrained generation expansion planning," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. The paper is available [here].

Accepted! Our paper L. Mitridati, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, "Heat and electricity market coordination: A scalable complementarity approach,'' has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Operational Research. The paper is available [here].

Accepted! Our paper V. Dvorkin, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, "Electricity market equilibrium under information asymmetry," has been accepted for publication in the Operations Research Letters. The paper is available [here].

Opening: A PhD position is available in our group on data sharing and trading, global and network games, differential privacy, all with applications to power and energy systems. The link for application page is here. The deadline is September 20, 2019.

Accepted! Our paper A. Ratha, J. Kazempour, A. Virag, and P. Pinson, "Exploring market properties of policy-based reserve procurement for power systems" has been accepted for presentation at the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2019) , Nice, France, Dec. 2019. The paper is available [here].

Anna Schwele received the second best student paper award in PowerTech 2019 Conference, Milan, Italy. The paper is available [here]. Congrats to Anna and Christos Ordoudis for such a nice work!

DTU CEE Summer school 2019 with 60 participants from all over the world came to the end. Thanks to Munther Dahleh, Dolores Romero Morales, Johanna Mathieu, Andrea Simonetto, Saverio Bolognani, Pierre Pinson and Spyros Chatzivasileiadis for great talks. All slides are available [here]. See you in next DTU CEE summer school in June 2020!

Accepted! Our paper Y. Ye, D. Papadaskalopoulos, J. Kazempour, and G. Strbac, "Incorporating non-convex operating characteristics into bi-level optimization electricity market models," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. The paper is available [here].

Prof. Antonio J. Conejo presented two mini introductory lectures at DTU on adaptive robust optimization as well as power and gas equilibria. The slides are available here. The videos will be uploaded at CEE YouTube soon.

The videos of invited course at DTU on "advanced game theory in power systems" by Prof. Uday V. Shanbhag are now available online at CEE YouTube. Besides, the videos of the two talks by Prof. Steven Low and Prof. Ian Hiskens are posted.

Alexander Hermann defended his PhD thesis on "Market-Based Methods for the Coordinated Use of Distributed Energy Resources", supervised by Prof. Jacob Østergaard, Prof. Shaojun Huang and myself. Congrats Alex! Thanks Prof. Florin Capitanescu, Prof. Christoph Weber and Prof. Pierre Pinson for examining the thesis. The slides of his defense is available [here].

Accepted! Our paper C. Ziras, J. Kazempour, E. Can Kara, H. W. Bindner, P. Pinson, and S. Kiliccote, "A mid-term DSO market for capacity limits: How to estimate opportunity costs of aggregators?," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. The paper is available [here].

Lesia Mitridati defended successfully her PhD thesis with title "Market-Based Coordination of Heat and Electricity Systems". Lesia was supervised by my colleague, Pierre Pinson, and myself. Thanks to Prof. Steven Low, Prof. Maryam Kamgarpour and Prof. Spyros Chatzivasileiadis for examining this thesis. The thesis is available [here]. Lesia will be joining Georgia Tech as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Adriano Arrigo received Prix CREG (Belgian regulator for gas and electricity) award for his [master thesis]. See the news [here].

Accepted! Our paper A. Hermann, J. Kazempour, S. Huang, and J. Østergaard, "Congestion management in distribution networks with asymmetric block offers," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. The paper is available [here].

Presented our work at Issac Newton Institute of the University of Cambridge on "Distributionally Robust Chance Constrained Generation Expansion Planning". The slides are available [here]. The video of talk is also available [here].

Presented our work at Multi-Energy Systems Workshop at ETH Zurich on "Towards Revealing the Full Operational Flexibility of Integrated Energy Systems". The slides are available [here]. The video of talk is also available [here].

Our following two papers have been accepted to be presented at the 13th IEEE PowerTech 2019 Conference, June 2019, Milan, Italy: [Paper 1, link]: A. Schwele, C. Ordoudis, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, "Coordination of power and natural gas systems: Convexification approaches for linepack modeling". [Paper 2, link]: C. Kok, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, "A DSO-level contract market for conditional demand response".

Promoted to Associate Professor with effect from February 1, 2019.

Accepted! Our paper L. Exizidis, J. Kazempour, A. Papakonstantinou, P. Pinson, Z. De Greve, and F. Vallee, “Incentive-compatibility in a two-stage stochastic electricity market with high wind power penetration,” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. The paper is available [here].

Presented our work at Issac Newton Institute of the University of Cambridge on "Towards Revealing the Full Operational Flexibility of Energy Systems". The slides are available [here].

We are organizing a compact 5-day course from the 6th to the 10th of May 2019 on "Advanced Game-theoretic Models in Power Systems" at the ELMA group of DTU. The invited teacher for the whole course is Prof. Uday V. Shanbhag from Pennsylvania State University. The course flyer is available [here].

Selected as one of the 7 outstanding editorial board members of International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems (Wiley) for 2018.

Accepted! Our paper A. Schwele, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, “Do unit commitment constraints affect generation expansion planning? A scalable stochastic model,” has been accepted for publication in Energy Systems. [paper]

Christos Ordoudis defended successfully his PhD thesis with title "Market-based Approaches for the Coordinated Operation of Electricity and Natural Gas Systems". Christos was supervised by my colleagues, Pierre Pinson, Juan Miguel Morales and myself. Thanks to Pascal Van Hentenryck, Afzal Siddiqui and Spyros Chatzivasileiadis for examining this thesis. The thesis is available [here].

Elevated to IEEE Senior Member grade!

Anubhav Ratha started his PhD at the ELMA group under the supervision of Pierre Pinson (DTU), Ana Virag (VITO, Belgium) and myself. Anubhav got his MSc degree in Energy Science and Technology from ETH Zurich, and will work on market design for integrated energy systems during his PhD.

Prof. Yury Dvorkin from New York University gave a talk on "Harvesting demand response flexibility via learning" at the ELMA group of DTU. The video of his talk is available [here].

Prof. François Vallée and Dr. Zacharie De Grève from University of Mons, Belgium, gave two talks on "Decision-making in electric power systems" and "Data analytics in electric power systems: How can machine learning help? "at the ELMA group of DTU. Their slides are available here: File 1 | File 2.

Started co-supervising PhD student Niklas Vespermann at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Together with Prof. Thomas Hamacher, we will work on market design for future energy communities and local markets.

Adriano Arrigo started his PhD at the University of Mons, Belgium. Together with Prof. François Vallée and Dr. Jean-François Toubeau, I will co-supervise his PhD work on the applications of distributionally robust optimization to power systems.

Prof. Shmuel Oren (University of California, Berkeley) gave a talk on "mobilizing grid flexibility for renewables integration through topology control and dynamic thermal rating" at the ELMA group of DTU.

Invited as a speaker to The Mathematics of Energy Systems programme at the Isaac Newton Institute in University of Cambridge in March 2019.

Together with my PhD student, Vladimir Dvorkin, we will be running a five-day course (24-28 September 2018) on "applications of decomposition techniques to power systems" at Skoltech, Moscow, Russia. The course description is available here.

Invited to serve as a scientific committee member of the XV International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP2019), NTNU, Trondheim, July 29 - August 2, 2019.

Accepted! Our paper V. Dvorkin, J. Kazempour, L. Baringo, and P. Pinson, "A consensus-ADMM approach for strategic generation investment in electricity markets" will be presented at the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2018), Dec. 2018. [paper]

The 3rd edition of DTU CEE Summer School on "Modern Optimization in Energy" took place from the 24th to 29th of June 2018. The slides and videos of all lectures are available here: slides | videos | YouTube

Farzaneh Pourahmadi, PhD student at Sharif University of Technology (Iran), started her visiting stay at DTU. We will work on distributionally robust generation expansion planning.

Opening: There is a 3-year joint PhD position between DTU and VITO (Belgium) in the ELMA group on "Market design for future highly interconnected multi-carrier energy systems". Apply here! The deadline for application is June 15, 2018.

Vladimir Dvorkin will be giving a talk on "A scalable solution framework for strategic investment problems via progressive hedging" at Conference on Computational Management Science (CMS 2018), Trondheim, Norway. (slides | paper)

Presented our work at The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK, on "Virtual bidding and self-scheduling in two-settlement electricity markets with wind generation". (slides)

Lesia Mitridati gave a talk on "Coordination of heat and electricity systems via market-based mechanisms" at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, UK. Her slides are available here. Lesia will give an updated version of this work at ISMP in July 2018.

Anna Schwele gave a talk on "Virtual bidders and self-schedulers in electricity and natural gas markets" at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, UK. Her slides are available here. Anna will give an updated version of this work at ISMP in July 2018.

Invited to be a visiting scholar at the School of Mathematics, Operational Research and Optimization Group, University of Edinburgh, UK, from April 30 to June 2, 2018 (five weeks).

Presented our work a talk at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen on "A stochastic market design with revenue adequacy and cost recovery by scenario: Benefits and costs" [abstract | paper]. The same talk will be given on the 1st of May at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Corey Kok joined us as a Postdoctoral Fellow. We will be working together on market design for demand response resources and integrated energy systems. Before joining the ELMA group, Corey was a PhD student at The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

After the two successful summer schools in 2016 and 2017, The ELMA Group is pleased to invite PhD and MSc students, postdocs and researchers in industry to the 3rd DTU CEE Summer School 2018, which will focus on “Modern Optimization in Energy Systems”. The venue will be DTU Lyngby campus from June 25 to 29, 2018. The registration deadline is March 18, 2018. Read more about the event here.

Our paper L. Bobo, S. Delikaraoglou, N. Vespermann, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, "Offering strategy of a flexibility aggregator in a balancing market using asymmetric block offers" will be presented at the 20th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), June 2018. [paper]

All lecture slides for course "Large-scale optimization problems in energy systems: Applications of decomposition techniques" were uploaded here.

Dimitrios Thomas, PhD student at the University of Mons (Belgium), started his 3-month visiting stay at DTU. We will be working together on sharing storage in smart grids.

Accepted! Our paper T. Jensen, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, "Cost-optimal ATCs in zonal electricity markets," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. [link]

Selected as one the eight outstanding editorial board members of International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems (Wiley) for 2017.

Lazaros Exizidis will be defending his PhD thesis entitled "Electricity markets with high wind power penetration: Information sharing and incentive-compatibility" on December 5, 2017 at University of Mons, Belgium. I jointly supervised his PhD work with F. Vallee and Z. De Greve. His PhD thesis is available here. Lazaros will be joining ENTSO-E as a market modeling advisor.

I will be teaching a 3-week special course on "Large-scale optimization problems in energy systems: applications of decomposition techniques" in January 2018.

Opening: There is a postdoc position in the ELMA group in "Market design for demand response resources and integrated energy systems". Apply here! The deadline for application is October 25, 2017.

Presented our work on this paper at European Conference on Stochastic Optimization (ESCO 2017), Rome, Italy, 20-22 Sep. 2017.

Anna Schwele joined us as a PhD student. She will work on efficient and scalable market design for renewable-based integrated energy systems (CORE project). Anna received a double M.Sc. degree between DTU and TU Munich in Operations Research and Management Science in 2017.

Vladimir Dvorkin joined us as a PhD student. He will work on advanced game-theoretical aspects in electricity markets. Vladimir received a M.Sc. degree in Sustainable Energy from DTU in 2017 and another M.Sc. degree in Economics from Higher School of Economics in Moscow in 2014.

Accepted! Our paper E. Nasrolahpour, J. Kazempour, H. Zareipour, and W. D. Rosehart, "A bilevel model for participation of a storage system in energy and reserve markets," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. [paper]

Invited to give a talk at Skoltech, Moscow, Russia, at the 3rd International Conference of Skoltech Center for Energy Systems Science for Energy Systems Regulation, Oct. 12-13, 2017.

Invited to run a single-day workshop at University of Tabriz, Iran, on "Modern Challenges in Electricity Markets: An Optimization Perspective", Aug. 27, 2017. [link]

Accepted! Our paper N. Mazzi, J. Kazempour, and P. Pinson, "Price-taker offering strategy in electricity pay-as-bid markets," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. [paper]

Anna Schwele will be defending her master thesis on "Impact of unit commitment constraints on generation expansion decisions under wind uncertainty", DTU Lyngby campus, building 325, room 101, 1pm. [thesis]

Vladimir Dvorkin will be defending his master thesis on "Multi-stage strategic investment in CCGTs and wind power units via progressive hedging", DTU Lyngby campus, building 325, room 101, 9am. [thesis]

Invited to give a talk at Imperial College London (Control and Power Group) on "Applications of Bilevel Programming to Power Systems and Electricity Markets". [slides]

Christos Ordoudis will be presenting our paper "Exploiting flexibility in coupled electricity and natural gas markets: A price-based approach" at IEEE PowerTech 2017, Manchester, UK. [paper]

DTU Summer School 2017: After last year's successful summer school, we organize our second summer school on "Modern Challenges in Power System Operation and Electricity Markets: An Optimization Perspective". Looking forward to welcoming you in Copenhagen! The deadline for registration is May 7, 2017.

Invited to give a talk at the workshop "Forecasting and Risk Management for Renewable Energy", Paris-Diderot University. [slides]

Niklas Vespermann joined ELMA Group as a research assistant to work together on the EcoGrid 2.0 project. We will develop an offering strategy for demand response providers and aggregators in balancing electricity markets.

Opening: We are looking for an excellent PhD student to work on "Advanced Game-Theoretical Aspects in Electricity Markets". Apply here! The application deadline is June 21, 2017.

Accepted! Our two-part paper J. Kazempour and B. F. Hobbs, "Value of Flexible Resources, Virtual Bidding, and Self-Scheduling in Two-Settlement Electricity Markets With Wind Generation" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. [part I, part II]