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EPOC Winter Workshop 2026
The Electric Power Optimization Centre held its 23rd Annual Winter Workshop on September 4, 2026 at the University of Auckland.
EPOC 2025 Programme (pdf)

Talk slides are now available for download.

Capacity expansion using SDDP: a district heating application (pdf)
Ali Kok (TU Wien) ‒ September 4, 2026
Mapping the market: an exploration using Neural SDDP
Lewis Wood (Genesis) ‒ September 4, 2026
Planning for a secure energy transition in Aotearoa (pdf)
Rebecca Peer (SERG, University of Canterbury) ‒ September 4, 2026
Spreads, Scratches and Shadow Prices: Inside Electricity Hedge Markets in New Zealand and North America (pdf)
Scott McDonald (Trighill Consulting) ‒ September 4, 2026
The TIMES-NZ 3.0 model: How we built it and what its telling us (pdf)
Gareth Gretton and Luke Searle (EECA) ‒ September 4, 2026
Capacity Markets: When Practice Contradicts Theory (pdf)
Jim Bushnell (UC Davis) ‒ September 4, 2026
On energy-only electricity markets under uncertainty (pdf)
Andy Philpott (EPOC) ‒ September 4, 2026
Lake Pukaki Contingent Storage Operation (pdf)
Grant Telfar (Meridian) ‒ September 4, 2026
Optimizing energy bids and offers for BESS (pdf)
Alexandre Fargier (EPOC) ‒ September 4, 2026
Estimating competitive contract prices (pdf)
Andy Philpott, Ben Guo and Andrew Jin (EPOC) ‒ September 4, 2026