June 30, 2025: Funding granted! Our project “Data Unlocked: Privacy Preservation, Public Sharing, and Added Value Creation” has been awarded funding by EUDP. The total grant amounts to 9.5 million DKK (approximately 1.27 million EUR), with 61% allocated to the EMA section. We are excited to collaborate with our industrial partners: Energinet, NeoGrid, Enfor, Green Power Denmark, Watts, PowerLab DK, and Radius. Looking forward to embarking on this important project!
June 30, 2025: Funding granted! Our Industrial PhD project with Energinet has been awarded funding by Innovation Fund Denmark. Under the project titled “Dynamic and Multi-Area Reserve Dimensioning for Balancing of the Electricity Grid”, Valdemar Søgaard will pursue his PhD, supervised by Lesia Mitridati (DTU), Thomas Dalgas (Energinet), Anders Runge Walther (Energinet), and myself.
June 30, 2025: Elevated to senior member of INFORMS.
May 19-23, 2025: The 8th edition of the DTU PES Summer School took place. You can read more in my LinkedIn post [ here ]. Video recordings are publicly available [ here ].
May 8, 2025: Video recordings of all my lectures for the MSc course "Renewables in Electricity Markets" are now publicly available [ here ].
May 8, 2025: Accepted! Our paper "Betting vs. trading: Learning a linear decision policy for selling wind power and hydrogen" by Yannick Heiser, Farzaneh Pourahmadi, and JK has been accepted for presentation at the 12th Bulk Power System Dynamics and Control Symposium (IREP 2025). See you in Sorrento, Italy this June! [ arXiv | GitHub ]
May 8, 2025: Accepted! Our paper "Day-ahead bidding strategies for wind farm operators under a one-price balancing scheme" by Max Bruninx, Timothy Verstraeten, JK, and Jan Helsen has been accepted for presentation at the ACM e-Energy 2025, The 6th International Workshop on Energy Data and Analytics (EDA). See you in Rotterdam, Netherlands this June! [ arXiv ]
April 9, 2025: Delivered an invited talk on "Data-driven optimization with contextual information for selling wind power and hydrogen" at the NTNU/NHH Winter School 2025 in Kvitfjell, Norway [ slides ].
April 8, 2025: Accepted! Our paper "Learning prosumer behavior in energy communities: Integrating bilevel programming and online learning" by Bennevis Crowley, JK, Lesia Mitridati, and Mahnoosh Alizadeh has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].
April 5, 2025: Accepted! Our paper "Aggregator of electric vehicles bidding in Nordic FCR-D markets: A chance-constrained program" by Gustav Lunde, Emil Damm, Peter A. V. Gade, and JK has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems [ link | arXiv | GitHub | video ].
April 2, 2025: Accepted! Our paper "Contracting strategies for electrolyzers to secure grid connection: The Dutch case" by Thomas Swarts, JK, Wouter van den Akker, Johan Morren, Arjan van Voorden, Han Slootweg has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE PowerTech Conference 2025. See you in Kiel, Germany in June! [ arXiv ]
March 24, 2025: Joined the Expert Group on "EU-wide Flexibility Needs Assessment" at the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) [link].
February 10, 2025: Two PhD positions are now open for application at the EMA section: