The course aims at preparing the student to deal with the energy planning of an area either it is an industrial site, or it is a territory. The energy conversion stream can flow from conventional sources (i.e. thermal, hydro), from alternative/renewable sources (wind, solar, co-generation) down to the energy service at the end user. The modelling will be used to investigate technical, economic, environmental and energy aspects. The topics cover an introduction to planning (useful information from energy balance), optimization techniques (LP, ILP, MILP, GP, MOLP) and the use of scenarios for the modelling and sensitive analysis. Overview on energy models like Osemosys, Markal/Times
Course Prerequisites
Preliminary knowledge of the following courses is highly recommended: technical physics, mathematical modeling, economics, energy conversion systems, energetics. Additionally, thermal machines.
Teaching Methods
Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 37 Practical/ Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 23
Assessment Methods
The final exam consists of a session on PC where the candidate shall demonstrate his/her knowledge on the matter and be ready to formulate and solve an optimization problem.
Texts
All the materials are posted on the KIRO course website .
Contents
Recalls to basic energy knowledge. The role of international agreements for energy planning. The energy national balance and the statistics on the electricity national production. Introduction to mathematical programming (LP, ILP, MILP, GP MOLP) and a few solver methods (simplex and branch&bound). Osemosys: introduction to its framework, input and output.
Examples of linear constrained optimization, problems formulation and solution on Excel.
