Presentation of Chair Objectives -...
Transcript of Presentation of Chair Objectives -...
-
Presentation of Chair Objectives
Anthony Papavasiliou
GDF Suez Chair Inauguration
June 3, 2014
-
Chair Objective
Develop an internationally competitive research and education program in computational and modeling methods for the • analysis of restructuring of energy markets • analysis and management of risks affecting
the energy sector
-
Evolution of Optimization Technology
In 1952, Dantzig et al. solve an instance of the Traveling Salesman Problem with 49 cities by hand
In 2006 Cook et al. solve a problem with 85,900 ‘cities’ (the one above has 37,000 cities)
It took It takes
> 4 months (early 90’s) 1 second (2007)
> 7 years (early 90’s) 1 second (now)
-
Evolution of Computing
X1,000,000
X40
Intel Pentium II (1997-1999)
Intel Core i7 975 (2014)
Sequoia Cluster (2012)
233-450 MHz 3.33 GHz PowerPC A2 2.3 GHz
1 core 4 cores 1.6 million cores
-
Evolution of Energy Policy
Wind Photovoltaic Biomass
Source: 50Hertz, TenneT, Amprion, TransnetBW
Evolution of renewable integration in Germany
-
A New, Interdisciplinary Frontier
Parallel Computing
Energy Markets & Systems Modeling
Optimization
GDF Chair
Opportunity: The GDF Chair links key players § CORE has towering experts in
optimization, energy markets, economics, statistics
§ LLNL hosts the third largest supercomputer worldwide
§ UC Berkeley faculty has conducted pioneering work in e l e c t r i c i t y m a r k e t deregulation and optimization
-
Renewable Energy Integration
Tehachapi wind generation, April 2005
Hour Source: California ISO
Variability in wind and solar, Jun 24, 2010, CAISO
Time
Research question: How should we operate energy systems on a minute-by-minute / hourly / daily basis in order to balance unpredictable renewable supply
-
Smart Grids Research question: How can we use Information and Control Technology in order to harness flexible demand and transmission networks?
Flexible AC Transmission System devices Smart thermostats
Electric vehicles
-
European Market Design Research question: How can European electricity markets coordinate their operations and provide incentives for the right technology mix?
Source: Eurelectric
-
Risk Management in Electricity and Gas Markets
Research question: What is the best investment strategy in capacity and the optimal positioning in financial markets? How do financial instruments and energy policies influence the capacity mix and energy prices?
Source: World Bank
-
Energy System Expansion Research question: How should we expand energy systems in order to bring renewable sources to load centers at least cost?
Source: NREL Source: Desertec
-
Teaching Goals § Strengthen Belgian engineers in
an important area of competency § Open access: slides and lecture
videos are available online Two Masters Courses in English offered in department of Applied Mathematics § Quantitative Operational Energy
Economics § Operations Research
UCL Applied Mathematics Class of 2014 after job interview
Operations Research lectures on Youtube
-
Current Status § Ignacio Aravena (PhD candidate)
§ Short-Term Uncertainty Management in Power Systems using High Performance Computing
§ Funded by Fonds Speciaux de Recherche, UCL § Jinil Han (post-doctoral researcher)
§ Benefits of optimal transmission network management in ENTSO-E
§ Funded by GDF Suez startup grant
-
International Collaborations
§ Access to LLNL cluster, 3rd largest supercomputer worldwide
§ Contribution to 3-year 5M$ project funded by US Department of Energy ARPA-E on optimal transmission network control
§ F u t u r e g o a l : e x c h a n g e o f researchers with US academic and research groups
-
Collaboration with GDF Suez § GDF Suez startup funding supports one researcher § GDF Suez startup funding supports international collaborations § GDF Suez defines important problems § Access to data § Co-supervision of PhD / masters students § Masters projects
§ Adrien Baland (graduating Masters): Co-optimization of gas forward contracts and unit commitment
§ Immediate goals: § Participation with Laborelec in Horizon 2020 application (Youtility project) § Participation with GDF Suez in Horizon 2020 LCE-6 (Transmission Grid and Wholesale
Market): Optimal control of the European transmission network
-
Thank you
For more information
§ http://perso.uclouvain.be/anthony.papavasiliou/public_html/home.html