LIREI structures its work around three major research programs, expressed through doctoral projects and collaborations, and spanning a broad range of areas of expertise.
Our work is organized around three major research programs. Each program brings together doctoral projects and collaborations that explore its different facets.
2023-2028 research program with Hydro-Québec's LTE/IREQ and Polytechnique Montréal: unlocking customer energy flexibility through local energy service markets and hierarchical distribution grid management.
Partners : CRSNG (programme Alliance), Mitacs, Hydro-Québec (LTE/IREQ), Polytechnique Montréal, Ecosystem, Stelpro, Elmec
Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
A communication ontology that lets residential resources take part in the flexibility markets of an open platform simply and automatically.
Amen Bakpo — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Electric vehicles and smart mobility Active
Optimal sizing and operation of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to integrate EV fast charging into smart grids.
Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
Quantifying what a group of customers can genuinely offer the grid, and how fast it responds to a transactive signal — the measurement without which no local market can be sized.
Electric vehicles and smart mobility Active
EV charging coordination within the transactive energy framework, accounting for residential distribution grid constraints.
Rasmane Bandé — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
Interdependency models to coordinate local flexibility markets and the provision of distribution grid services.
Michael Arenas Florez — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
Setting the tariffs and incentives that make a customer willing to take part — and the constraints that keep that participation from destabilising the grid.
Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
Making cells that each decide for themselves work together: how interactions between aggregations propagate, and what they contribute — or cost — in overall performance.
Machine learning and consumption monitoring Active
Stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) of HVAC systems leveraging probabilistic occupancy models for institutional buildings.
Juan Diego Caballero Peña — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Smart grids and simulation platforms Active
Looking for where a flexibility mechanism can be made to fail — by an outage, by strategic behaviour or by an attack — before it fails in service.
Residential energy management Active
Development of energy management systems for residential buildings in cold climates: demand response, thermal storage and distributed stochastic load coordination.
Partners : Hydro-Québec
Machine learning and consumption monitoring Active
Digital twin of UQTR's Tapan K. Bose building: live BACnet data, a multi-ontology knowledge graph and AI-assisted natural-language querying.
Partners : UQTR
Smart grids and simulation platforms Active
Representing the distribution network as a set of cells with differing degrees of autonomy, then simulating management topologies to measure what aggregates and coalitions are actually worth.
Smart grids and simulation platforms Active
Grid restoration strategies leveraging the flexibility of residential loads and electric vehicles against the Cold Load Pickup phenomenon.
Mourad Belkassemi — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
Large-scale transactive flexibility management method based on hierarchical spectral clustering of flexibility providers.
Naren Arley Mantilla Ramírez — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Program targeting greenhouse energy efficiency and yield in northern climates: predictive energy and climate management, robustness to uncertainty and intelligent anomaly diagnosis.
Partners : Université Laval
Machine learning and consumption monitoring Active
Uncertainty-aware probabilistic AI framework for detecting and diagnosing anomalies in smart greenhouse energy systems.
Zahra Farahzadi — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Smart grids and simulation platforms Active
Predictive energy management and climate control strategy for greenhouses, robust to weather uncertainty and resilient to anomalies.
Kossi Landry Adjanohun — dir. Prof. Sousso Kelouwani
Program on microgrids for remote communities and sites: replacing diesel with hybrid renewable systems and storage, reliable even under extreme northern conditions.
Partners : CRSNG, Réseau ACET — Université de Victoria, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, Institut de recherche sur l'hydrogène (IRH)
Hydrogen and fuel cells Active
Sizing and management algorithms for hybrid storage systems supporting the energy transition of Quebec's isolated mines.
Jersson Garcia — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou · en collaboration avec le Prof. Daniel R. Rousse (groupe t3e, ÉTS)
Partners : École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal
Hydrogen and fuel cells Active
Sizing and management of hybrid hydrogen-integrated systems: renewable backup for microgrids, shared storage and fuel cell vehicles.
Partners : Institut de recherche sur l'hydrogène (IRH)
The technical capabilities our programs rest on. Some belong to a single program, others run through all of them.
Design and simulation of smart power grids that use computing to better manage consumption and energy exchanges between suppliers and consumers. Two-level coordination and control of distributed systems.
smart gridssimulationcoordinationcontrol
Energy management systems for residential buildings: demand response, thermal storage, consumption monitoring and occupant comfort.
demand responsethermal storageenergy efficiency
Application of machine learning to non-intrusive load monitoring, occupancy detection and stochastic modeling of electrical loads.
machine learningoccupancy detectionstochastic modeling
Integration of hydrogen and fuel cells into energy systems, in synergy with renewable energy and the work of the Hydrogen Research Institute.
hydrogenfuel cellsrenewable energy
Transactive energy mechanisms and local flexibility markets: convex optimization, economic analysis, equity and multi-agent coordination of distributed energy resources.
transactive energyconvex optimizationflexibility marketsmulti-agent
Optimization of energy use in electric and hydrogen vehicles, and integration of vehicles into the grid as flexibility providers.
electric vehiclessmart chargingsustainable mobility
What each program draws on, and where one capability serves several programs.
| Cross-cutting capabilities | Energy flexibility | Quebec greenhouses | Remote communities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transactive markets and mechanisms | 7 | — | — |
| Smart grids and simulation platforms | 3 | 2 | — |
| Machine learning and consumption monitoring | 2 | 1 | — |
| Hydrogen and fuel cells | — | — | 3 |
| Electric vehicles and smart mobility | 2 | — | — |
| Residential energy management | 1 | — | — |
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Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
A communication ontology that lets residential resources take part in the flexibility markets of an open platform simply and automatically.
Amen Bakpo — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Machine learning and consumption monitoring Active
Uncertainty-aware probabilistic AI framework for detecting and diagnosing anomalies in smart greenhouse energy systems.
Zahra Farahzadi — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Electric vehicles and smart mobility Active
Optimal sizing and operation of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to integrate EV fast charging into smart grids.
Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
Quantifying what a group of customers can genuinely offer the grid, and how fast it responds to a transactive signal — the measurement without which no local market can be sized.
Electric vehicles and smart mobility Active
EV charging coordination within the transactive energy framework, accounting for residential distribution grid constraints.
Rasmane Bandé — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
Interdependency models to coordinate local flexibility markets and the provision of distribution grid services.
Michael Arenas Florez — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
Setting the tariffs and incentives that make a customer willing to take part — and the constraints that keep that participation from destabilising the grid.
Smart grids and simulation platforms Active
Program targeting greenhouse energy efficiency and yield in northern climates: predictive energy and climate management, robustness to uncertainty and intelligent anomaly diagnosis.
Prof. Sousso Kelouwani et Prof. Kodjo Agbossou · Farshad Etedadi (stage postdoctoral) · Kossi Landry Adjanohun, Zahra Farahzadi
Partners : Université Laval
Hydrogen and fuel cells Active
Sizing and management algorithms for hybrid storage systems supporting the energy transition of Quebec's isolated mines.
Jersson Garcia — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou · en collaboration avec le Prof. Daniel R. Rousse (groupe t3e, ÉTS)
Partners : École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal
Hydrogen and fuel cells Active
Program on microgrids for remote communities and sites: replacing diesel with hybrid renewable systems and storage, reliable even under extreme northern conditions.
Prof. Kodjo Agbossou · David Toquica (stage postdoctoral) · Jersson Garcia
Partners : CRSNG, Réseau ACET — Université de Victoria, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, Institut de recherche sur l'hydrogène (IRH)
Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
Making cells that each decide for themselves work together: how interactions between aggregations propagate, and what they contribute — or cost — in overall performance.
Hydrogen and fuel cells Active
Sizing and management of hybrid hydrogen-integrated systems: renewable backup for microgrids, shared storage and fuel cell vehicles.
Partners : Institut de recherche sur l'hydrogène (IRH)
Machine learning and consumption monitoring Active
Stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) of HVAC systems leveraging probabilistic occupancy models for institutional buildings.
Juan Diego Caballero Peña — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Smart grids and simulation platforms Active
Looking for where a flexibility mechanism can be made to fail — by an outage, by strategic behaviour or by an attack — before it fails in service.
Residential energy management Active
Development of energy management systems for residential buildings in cold climates: demand response, thermal storage and distributed stochastic load coordination.
Partners : Hydro-Québec
Smart grids and simulation platforms Active
Predictive energy management and climate control strategy for greenhouses, robust to weather uncertainty and resilient to anomalies.
Kossi Landry Adjanohun — dir. Prof. Sousso Kelouwani
Machine learning and consumption monitoring Active
Digital twin of UQTR's Tapan K. Bose building: live BACnet data, a multi-ontology knowledge graph and AI-assisted natural-language querying.
Partners : UQTR
Smart grids and simulation platforms Active
Representing the distribution network as a set of cells with differing degrees of autonomy, then simulating management topologies to measure what aggregates and coalitions are actually worth.
Smart grids and simulation platforms Active
Grid restoration strategies leveraging the flexibility of residential loads and electric vehicles against the Cold Load Pickup phenomenon.
Mourad Belkassemi — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
2023-2028 research program with Hydro-Québec's LTE/IREQ and Polytechnique Montréal: unlocking customer energy flexibility through local energy service markets and hierarchical distribution grid management.
Chercheur principal : Prof. Kodjo Agbossou · Cocandidats : Sousso Kelouwani, Roland P. Malhamé (Polytechnique Montréal) · Collaborateurs : Yves Dubé, Nilson Henao (UQTR), Michaël Fournier, Fatima Amara, Juan Oviedo (LTE — Hydro-Québec)
Partners : CRSNG (programme Alliance), Mitacs, Hydro-Québec (LTE/IREQ), Polytechnique Montréal, Ecosystem, Stelpro, Elmec
Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
Large-scale transactive flexibility management method based on hierarchical spectral clustering of flexibility providers.
Naren Arley Mantilla Ramírez — dir. Prof. Kodjo Agbossou
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