Electric Power Optimization Centre
EPOC Graduate Research Topics We are looking for graduate students to work on the following research topics.
For further information contact Andy Philpott or Tony Downward
POUNAMUAndy Philpott and Tony DownwardPOUNAMU forms a component of the ZERO project which aims to develop platform of tools
to plan the transition of New Zealand to a zero-carbon economy by 2050. The aim of POUNAMU is to
optimize the deployment of short-term storage devices to deal with intermittent energy supply
from renewables (wind, solar and run-of-river hydro). POUNAMU will be based a short-term electricity
optimization model that will be solved using sddp.jl (for convex problems)
or JuDAS.jl (for non convex problems).
JADEAndy Philpott and Tony DownwardJADE is an infinite-horizon SDDP model for the New Zealand electricity system.
This project will extend an existing
single reservoir model (written in Julia and based on sddp.jl) to a multi-reservoir framework incorporating transmission losses
and constraints. The new software will admit models with different levels of
risk aversion applied to inflows as well as aother factors such as demand and fuel costs.
The project will also investigate a distributionally robust version of SDDP
applied in this setting.
EMERALDAndy Philpott and Tony DownwardEMERALD is a Julia package for optimizing long-term capacity investment
for 100% renewable electricity systems. It is based on JuDGE.jl, which
minimizes the expected cost of meeting uncertain demand over a long time horizon, using a
Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition algorithm. The time horizons are many years,
and so modelling risk is important. This project will develop an approach to incorporate
risk aversion into EMERALD.