Talk at FOSDEM

I recently got to visit the FOSDEM 2023 conference, and also speak about our work (video below). Together with some other folks at Linux Energy Foundation, we had organized the first energy devroom. Picture by Jonas van den Bogaard (Alliander) All the talks were very well attended and we got great questions. Hopefully, open source…

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Simulations and operation of energy optimization should use the same code

In our opinion, the same code that runs your simulations for energy optimization should also run in production, when you actually control your flexible assets in real time. This will decrease your time-to-market as well as your chances of failure, and it will give you more strategic options during operations. Why? 1. After the simulation…

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Local and time-of-use energy prices ― thoughts about energy fairness and cooperation

A short opinion piece, about energy fairness and cooperation as a consequence of local and time-of-use energy prices. Local and time-of-use electricity prices can reduce energy bills, says a British think tank: “Such a system would encourage electric car drivers in Cornwall to charge their vehicles when its sunny and those in Aberdeenshire to charge…

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