Workshop - Smart grids energy and big data analytics challenges, opportunities, and solutions

From distribution systems to pan-European system

The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology will organise this workshop on November 9th, 2016 with two invited speakers,Prof. Damien Ernst and Prof. Louis Wehenkel from University of Liège.

Programme

13.50 - Introduction

Prof. Lucien Hoffmann – Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology (LIST), Director of the Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) Department

14.00 - The GREDOR project: Redesigning the decision chain for managing distribution networks

Prof. Damien Ernst – University of Liège

14.45 - Improving the integration of high shares of photovoltaics into energy systems -  forecasting, simulation and measurement of PV systems from system level to national scale

Daniel Koster – LIST, ERIN, researcher

15.00 - Some smart solutions for boosting renewable energy sources hosting capacity of distribution systems

Florin Capitanescu – LIST, ERIN, researcher

15.15 - Coffee-break

15.30 - Big data, machine learning, and optimization, for power systems reliability

Prof. Louis Wehenkel – University of Liège

16.15 - Data analytics and visualization for the energy sector

Benoît Otjacques – LIST, ERIN, Head of e-Science research unit

16.30 - Cocktail

INVITED SPEAKERS - SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Damien Ernst is a Professor at the University of Liège. He received the M.S. and PhD. degrees in engineering from the University of Liège in 1998 and 2003, respectively. His doctoral thesis focused on reinforcement learning to solve control and decision-making problems in electricity networks. Before being Professor at the University of Liège, he was a Research Fellow of the FNRS and before this, Assistant Professor at SUPELEC, a French "Grande Ecole pour Ingénieurs". He has also held positions as visiting researcher at CMU in Pittsburgh, ETH in Zurich and MIT in Boston. Prof. Ernst is well-known for his research work in reinforcement learning and power system control. He has co-authored more than 200 papers and 2 books. He has also received numerous awards for his research work. Prof. Ernst is also regularly consulted by the press, the industry and governments for his deep understanding of the mutations the energy sector is currently facing.

Louis Wehenkel is full Professor of Stochastic Methods at the Montefiore Institute (Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science) of the University of Liège, where he currently teaches probability, statistics, stochastic processes, information theory and machine learning. He graduated as an Electrical Engineer (electronics) from the University of Liège in 1986, and obtained his PhD from the same University in 1990, on the application of artificial intelligence to power systems transient stability assessment. His research interests lie in machine learning, simulation, and optimisation, and their applications in different practical contexts, such as maintenance and reliability management of electric power systems, bioinformatics, and computer vision.