Organising risky decisions on hydrogen transmission capacity: Transposing comparative insights from the EU-US fossil gas transmission sectors towards the economic question of making hydrogen transmission capacity available

Renewable hydrogen is seen as an important element of a future decarbonized European Union. To reach the European Union’s ambitious goals for renewable hydrogen, a framework for regulating its hydrogen transmission infrastructures has been proposed, shaping how hydrogen transmission capacity via pipelines should be made available throughout the...

Reinforcement Learning Methodology for Electricity Market Simulation

This work seeks to resolve an outstanding problem in the use of reinforcement-learning methods for the simulation of economically-rational agents. We discuss the problem of non-stationarity, and how this subsequently limits market simulation capabilities. After explicating and isolating the source of the problem for a day-ahead electricity...

Enabling a decentralized architecture for data marketplaces

Data Marketplaces are emerging digital platforms in data management. These platforms enable the infrastructure for data exchange, offering the opportunity for data providers to commercialize their datasets and save time for data consumers in identifying appropriate datasets. Conceptually, data marketplaces provide data exchange services as their...

Electricity Market Design for African Power Pools: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead

The situation of power system reforms in Africa displays incomplete reform steps and unfulfilled goals. The performance statistics of the power system are very low and tremendous efforts remain to be exerted to bridge the gap. Reforms in Africa were pursued with the end goal of creating an electricity market on both the national and the regional...

The architecture of markets: Comparing the organization of street markets to the market building

Market structures have taken many forms. To understand the organization and architecture of markets, the research will question to which extent markets require the architecture of market buildings by studying the markets of the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The street markets of Rotterdam have advanced at a steady pace and proved that...

Decentralized market platforms for energy sharing in remote islanded DC microgrids

In 2018, 1.1 billion people still lacked access to energy services. Most of these people are located in remote areas which are hard to reach, especially with conventional methods of grid extension. Even if the number of people without energy access is decreasing and the number of people gaining access to electricity through renewable sources is...

Co-designing Blockchain and Market in the Dutch Electricity Sector: Creating a conceptual market design for the Dutch intraday market based on the effects of blockchain facilitated data coordination

Blockchain technology provides new methods of value transferring and data coordination, which could potentially benefit the changing management needs for the Dutch electricity sector. However, little research is done on how such a blockchain should be implemented and how it could best cooperate with the electricity markets. The goal of this...