The University of Auckland approved the Green Energy Engineering Centre as an Engineering Faculty Centre at the University of Auckland. EPOC Director Prof. Andy Philpott will be the Director of the new centre. More details can be found at this link.

The EPOC Winter Workshop for 2023 was held on Monday August 28. The presentations are now available for downloading at the link above.

For details see the link.

The EPOC Winter Workshop for 2022 was held on Friday September 9. The meeting agenda and presentations are now available for downloading at the link above.

The EPOC Winter Workshop for 2021 was a Zoom meeting held on Friday September 10. The meeting agenda and presentations are available for downloading at the link above.

Andy Philpott and Tony Downward gave online presentations to the ENRE section of INFORMS.

The 2020 EPOC Winter Workshop has been cancelled owing to Level 2.5 Covid 19 restrictions in Auckland.

The 2020 EPOC Winter Workshop will be held on Friday, September 11, at the Engineering School (20 Symonds Street) at the University of Auckland.

EPOC co-director Associate Professor Golbon Zakeri has taken up a new position as a tenured professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Golbon was a founding member of EPOC and has been instrumental in its success. We are sad to see her leave Auckland, but wish her well in her new role.

Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas, Boeing Professor of Operations Research at MIT presented two talks in Auckland on February 10. One presentation was in the Engineering Science seminar series, and the second lecture was part of a New Zealand Analytics Forum Meeting sponsored by the Operations Research Society of New Zealand. Slides can be downloaded by following the link above.

Prof. Andy Philpott presented the IFORS Keynote Address at INFORMS on Climate Change Analytics, and Dr Anthony Downward presented work on investment planning for 100% renewables.

Andy Philpott presented at the BIRS-CMO Workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico

The 2019 EPOC Winter Workshop was held on Wednesday, September 11, at the Engineering School (20 Symonds Street) at the University of Auckland. Talk slides are now available for downloading in Workshops below.

The 2018 EPOC Winter Workshop was held on Friday, September 7, at the Engineering School (20 Symonds Street) at the University of Auckland. The talks are available for downloading in Workshops below.

Andy Philpott presented at the CMS conference in Trondheim, Norway

Michael Ferris gave three talks on complementarity as part of the EPOC Brown Bag series. Details can be found below.

Software descriptions now available from here.

Distributed Energy Resources is a SfTI sponsored workshop that will be held in Auckland on 12 and 13 January 2018. This workshop is supported through the National Science Challenge Portfolio 4, Smart Services. We are grateful to MBIE for their generous support of this project. To learn more about the Smart Services portfolio go to http://www.sftichallenge.govt.nz/research/portfolios/portfolio-4-smart-services.

EPOC offers congratulations to successful PhD candidates Keith Ruddell and Faisal Wahid who submitted final versions of their theses to the University of Auckland Library in September and October.

The 2017 EPOC Winter Workshop was held on Monday, September 4, at the Engineering School (20 Symonds Street) at the University of Auckland. The talks are available for downloading in Workshops below.

A special EPOC Mini Workshop was held on Thursday, July 27, at the Engineering Science Department at the University of Auckland. The talks are available for downloading in Workshops below.

A special EPOC Summer Workshop was held on Tuesday, November 13, at the Engineering School at the University of Auckland, 70 Symonds Street. The talks are now available for downloading in Workshops below.

EPOC offers congratulations to co-director Golbon Zakeri who has just been promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Auckland.

The 15th Annual EPOC Winter Workshop was held on Wednesday, September 7, at the Engineering School at the University of Auckland, 20 Symonds Street. The programme is here and talks are now available for downloading in Workshops below.

The 15th Annual EPOC Winter Workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 7, at the Engineering School at the University of Auckland, 20 Symonds Street. Latest programme can be downloaded here. If you wish to attend, please contact Andy Philpott at a.philpott@auckland.ac.nz.

The Te Punaha Matatini PhD scholarship for research leading to new models and software for computing the value of stored water has been awarded to Ms Niloufar Izadinia from Tehran. She will take up the scholarship in October 2016.

Dr Par Holmberg from IFN, Stockholm will give a seminar, Pro-competitive rationing in multi-unit auctions, on December 9, Room 201, 70 Symonds Street.

EPOC held its 14th annual Winter Workshop on September 9, 2015 at the School of Engineering, University of Auckland, 20 Symonds Street.

Te Punaha Matatini will fund a PhD scholarship for research leading to new models and software for computing the value of stored water.

Four EPOC PhD students and Andy Philpott attended the NTNU Winter School in Energy Systems and Markets held at Kvitfjell from March 22-28.

EPOC held its 13th annual Winter Workshop on July 9, 2014 at the School of Engineering, University of Auckland, 20 Symonds Street.

Congratulations to Athena Wu who successfully defended her thesis "Expansion Models and Investment Decisions in Electricity Systems with Renewable-induced Uncertainties".

EPOC will hold its 13th annual Winter Workshop in July, 2014 at the University of Auckland School of Engineering. More details will follow nearer the date.

EPOC was represented at the ATE Symposium at Massey University. Slides and videos can be viewed here.

The Centre for Mathematical Social Sciences held a workshop in conjunction with EPOC in December.