Philipp Staudt

Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT

Industrial peak shaving is a regularly discussed application of battery storage. We introduce the notion of risk attitude in the context of joint industrial peak shaving and frequency containment reserve provision with battery storage. To this end, we combine a probabilistic quantile forecast with a rolling-horizon battery control mechanism. Probab...

Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier in Form von 10 Thesen des BDI Arbeitskreis Internet der Energie (BDI IdE) möchte insbesondere gestaltenden Akteuren des Energiesystems Handlungsspielräume im Zieldreieck Umweltverträglichkeit, Preiswürdigkeit und Versorgungssicherheit aufzeigen, die sich vor allem aus absehbaren technischen Entwicklungen ergeben.

The success of incentives for investments in sustainable residential energy technologies depends on individual households actively participating in the energy transition by investing in electrification and by becoming prosumers. This willingness is influenced by the return on investments in electrification and preferences towards environmental sust...

To reduce climate change, considerable behavioral changes are required from private households, who often have a low energy literacy and are therefore unaware of the necessary behavioral change.We introduce a Design Science Research project with the aim to increase energy literacy. To this end, we contribute a theory-grounded design theory for a Sm...

In January 2001, California experienced rolling blackouts in their energy systems and an average price of electricity of $250 per MWh. This price was nearly ten times the average price of the previous January in the year 2000 (Woo et al. 2003). What had happened? California had liberalized its electricity market with a zonal setup and with it, had...

The building sector, and especially residential households and office buildings, account for a large share of global emissions. Meanwhile, energy literacy is extremely low amongst residents and citizens in general, leading to insufficient evaluations of energy efficiency measures and technology equipment for buildings. To address this issue, we dev...

Most of Germany’s existing wind and solar plants have been losing their subsidies after 20 years of operation since 2020. Without support schemes, the challenges for the renewable operators are the intermittent generation and the fluctuating power prices. Consequently, lower-than-expected revenues and high revenue variability make it more difficult...

Hydrogen can contribute substantially to the reduction of carbon emissions in industry and transportation. However, the production of hydrogen through electrolysis creates interdependencies between hydrogen supply chains and electricity systems. Therefore, as governments worldwide are planning considerable financial subsidies and new regulation to...

Background: Citizen Energy Communities, particularly local energy markets, have been discussed for several years as a concept that allows private households, prosumers, and small local generation facilities to be actively integrated into the existing energy system. According to the literature, it promotes investment incentives and introduces local...

The prevention of climate change requires behaviour change of individuals within orga nizations. Green IS research suggests to use live information and feedback to promote such change. Furthermore, IS research has found digital nudging to be an effective tool for changing human behaviour. In this paper, we therefore evaluate the effectiveness of di...

This data set contains estimates for hydrogen demand in 2030, for the sectors steel, ammonia, methanol, refineries, heavy-duty trucks, and passenger cars. Each demand entry includes a location, specified by longitude and latitude. For more information on how this data set was constructed, see vom Scheidt et al. (2021). For heavy-duty truck fueling...

The transition of the energy sector towards more decentral, renewable and digital structures and a higher involvement of local residents as prosumers calls for innovative business models. In this paper, we investigate a sharing economy model that enables a residential community to share solar generation and storage capacity. We simulate 520 sharing...

Transmission expansion is a complex problem in energy market design and research has not yet provided a market-based solution that is superior to a (partly) regulated approach. Furthermore, markets with a single market clearing price lack regional incentives for system friendly generation or transmission capacity expansion. In this paper, we propos...

In recent years, local energy markets have become an important concept in more decentralized energy systems. Implementations in pilot projects provide first insights into different hypotheses and approaches. From a technical perspective, the requirements for the IT infrastructure of a local energy market are diverse, and a holistic view of its arch...

Electric vehicles have proven to be a viable mobility alternative that leads to emissions reductions and hence the decarbonization of the transportation sector. Nevertheless, electric vehicle adoption is progressing slowly. Vehicle fleets are a promising starting point for increased market penetration. With this study, we address the issue of fleet...

For the final, published version of this article see: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421521005930 ------- Hydrogen can contribute substantially to the reduction of carbon emissions in industry and transportation. However, the production of hydrogen through electrolysis creates interdependencies between hydrogen supply chains...

Following the European Union’s emission reduction goals, the expansion of intermittent renewable energy sources is being pursued by numerous member states. This poses challenges especially to low-voltage electricity grids that are not designed for the volatile and unpredictable feed-in from renewable generation capacity. In addition to the expansio...

Since the beginning of the energy sector liberalization, the design of energy markets has become a prominent field of research. Markets nowadays facilitate efficient resource allocation in many fields of energy system operation, such as plant dispatch, control reserve provisioning, delimitation of related carbon emissions, grid congestion managemen...

Information systems (IS) are nowadays at the core of many personal and institutional activities and influence daily life more than ever before. To understand, evaluate and envision the forms of how we interact with IS, interdisciplinary and multifaceted research efforts are required. At the Information and Market Engineering chair at the Karlsruhe...

As levelized costs of electricity for many renewable generation sources are continuing to fall and as feed-in tariffs are consequently being phased out, financial risk hedging for intermittent renewable generators takes a central stage. Battery storage as complementary capacity can support renewable generators regarding a more stable supply of elec...

Citizen Energy Communities (CECs) are increasingly promoted in the European Union and beyond as a form of locally operated microgrids. While traditional microgrid research is often focused on an optimized operation, individual preferences regarding conflicting objectives are becoming more important in such communities. In this study, we present an...

Hydrogen fueled transportation can contribute substantially to the reduction of global carbon emissions. However, the production of hydrogen through electrolysis creates interdependencies with electricity systems. Therefore, we present a new model which couples the hydrogen supply chain with the electricity system. We use this model to analyse a ca...

Since the beginning of the energy sector liberalization, the design of energy markets has become a prominent field of research. Markets nowadays facilitate efficient resource allocation in many fields of energy system operation, such as plant dispatch, control reserve provisioning, delimitation of related carbon emissions, grid congestion managemen...

While photovoltaic (PV) systems are installed at an unprecedented rate, reliable information on an installation level remains scarce. As a result, automatically created PV registries are a timely contribution to optimize grid planning and operations. This paper demonstrates how aerial imagery and three-dimensional building data can be combined to c...

As levelized costs of electricity for many renewable generation sources are continuing to fall and as feed-in tariffs are consequently being phased out, financial risk hedging for intermittent renewable generators takes a central stage. Battery storage as complementary capacity can support renewable generators regarding a more stable supply of elec...

To face the challenges of climate change, the integration of renewable energy sources in the energy-intensive heating sector is a crucial aspect of emission reduction. For an efficient operation of coupling devices such as heat pumps with intermittent sources of renewable energy, accurate heat load forecasts need to be developed and embedded into a...

In this paper, we present the first model for hydrogen-fueled bus fleet operation with on-site hydrogen production. To support the planning and operation of municipal hydrogen bus fleets, we transfer and adapt a vehicle scheduling algorithm for conventional buses. We optimize vehicle routes with regard to minimizing operational costs. Based on that...

The first generation of prototypes for citizen energy communities is completed. While these pilot projects of decentralized energy communities receive much attention in research, their concepts have yet to be implemented on a large scale. We find that potential participants of citizen energy communities lack information and the means to propose and...

The rapid transformation of the electricity sector increases both the opportunities and the need for Data Analytics. In recent years, various new methods and fields of application have been emerging. As research is growing and becoming more diverse and specialized, it is essential to integrate and structure the fragmented body of scientific work. W...

This documentation describes a data set for the German electricity system in 2030 and the methodology behind certain figures. The data can be used under a Creative Common license. The data set includes 1.) topological data on the transmission grid, the generation infrastructure and the demand, 2.) a time series of electricity demand in 2030 in an h...

The first generation of prototypes for citizen energy communities is completed. While these pilot projects of decentralized energy communities receive much attention in research, their concepts have yet to be implemented on a large scale. We find that potential participants of citizen energy communities lack information and the means to propose and...

With an increasing number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the road the need for charging stations increases. Some of these stations are placed at the destinations of drivers rather than along the route of their trip. The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of user behavior in the context of public destination charging and to provide an e...

Transmission grid congestion is one of the consequences of an increasing power generation from intermittent renewable capacities. These are often installed in the periphery and have rare generation peaks. It thus becomes more complicated to ensure a balanced grid operation at all times. It is necessary to develop holistic strategies for the managem...

As residential customers become a more integral part of the electricity system the importance of electricity tariffs increases. The widespread adoption of new, economically efficient tariffs for residential customers can yield substantial system benefits. However, in liberalized electricity markets tariffs are selected by each individual household....

Global climate change and the resulting effects pose a serious threat to the international community. The average global temperature will continue to rise over the next years and extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves are more likely to occur. This creates a higher demand for cooling in many European and international geographies. The high en...

Renewable electricity generation is a cornerstone of the international efforts towards decarbonization. Some of the renewable generation occurs intermittently. This makes a market integration of renewables challenging as quantities cannot be forecasted precisely and it is therefore difficult to hedge market risk. This becomes more important as subs...

Transmission grid congestion is one of the obstacles of renewable energy integration. It is therefore important to understand the causes and consequences of congestion. This paper describes three published data sets that contain pivotal information about transmission grid congestion and two countermeasures, that are typically used in uniform price...

The worldwide transition to renewable wind and solar electricity generation leads to more complex and decentralized energy systems. It is no longer sufficient to centrally optimize large controllable units. As electricity systems cannot be controlled from a top-down perspective anymore, the consumer behavior moves into focus and it is becoming an i...

The transition to a more renewable energy system comes with the challenge of designing appropriate transmission grids. Most uniform-price electricity market rely on redispatch to cure short-time congestion when grids cannot absorb all intermittent generation. Such redispatch mechanisms potentially affect the behavior of market participants. The beh...

The increasing penetration of renewable generation in electricity markets as well as the rising number of electric vehicles pose new challenges for transmission grids. Additional demand and regionally clustered generation force system operators to consider costly expansion plans and employ expensive redispatch measures in the meantime. In this pape...

The changing topologies of electricity generation and the lagging expansion of transmission grids in Europe lead to a resurfacing of the debate over power market designs. This debate has been led as the "Nodal-Bilateral Debate" with proponents of a market with a central ISO on one side and a market based on decentralized contracts on the other side...

The transition to more sustainable energy generation challenges transmission system operators to include intermittent renewable generation as well as electric vehicles into the power system. Especially in uniform-price power markets, this results in the need for unpopular grid expansions to overcome grid congestion. We analyze the ability of the ex...

Data about the energy consumption of buildings contains valuable information which is essential for the future energy system and smart cities. However, only few researchers publish the data on which their methods and analysis is based. This lack of publicly available data sets, makes it difficult to compare strategies and results, and hinders a str...

The increasing share of renewable energy generation in the electricity system comes with significant challenges, such as the volatility of renewable energy sources. To tackle those challenges, demand side management is a frequently mentioned remedy. However, measures of demand side management need a high level of flexibility to be successful. Altho...