November-December 2024 : Professor Andrew Philpott is hosted at the CERMICS Laboratory Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées de Paris . He is a Professor at the University of Auckland New Zealand of Operations Research and co-director of the Electric Power Optimization Center at the University of Auckland. His research interests are in stochastic optimization and game theory and their application to electricity markets.
Bézout Colloquium December 2nd 2024, 2:00 pm CERMICS seminar room – Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées .
Title. Modelling challenges for the green energy transition
Abstract: A joint work with: Eddie Anderson, Michael Ferris, Richard Green, Peter Cramton, Ramteen Sioshansi, Tito Homem de Mello, Olivier Huber, Mihai Anitescu, Sijia Geng
The Architecture of Green Energy Systems program was a 10-week joint research project funded by the Institute of Mathematical and Statistical Innovation at the University of Chicago in the summer of 2024. An outcome of this project was a draft review paper based on discussions of participants at the closing workshop. This paper identifies ten challenges for the mathematical modelling community that will be crucial to address in planning and implementing the transition to a net-zero carbon energy system.
In this talk I will give a broad overview of the challenges that were identified with a focus on modelling challenges arising in the conversion of household, transport and industrial energy use to renewable electricity. This will require enormous investments in renewable electricity generation, storage and transmission. I will give some examples of models used to help plan this process, and discuss the challenges that still have to be addressed to make the models useful to policy makers, regulators and investors.