Transactive markets and mechanisms Active
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)
The energy transition is driving major changes in distribution grids: integration of distributed energy resources, electrification of transport and heating, and winter peak management. Building energy flexibility emerges as a promising solution, but exploiting it requires new management mechanisms able to coordinate a very large number of actors without compromising grid reliability or economic efficiency.
Led by LIREI in collaboration with Hydro-Québec's LTE/IREQ and Polytechnique Montréal, this program develops the transactive approach along three axes: 1) local energy service platforms that unlock customer flexibility and motivate participation (service portfolios, customer behaviour models, decision-support tools, electrothermal models of Quebec buildings); 2) hierarchical organization of the distribution grid for management purposes (topologies, aggregation, distributed computing); 3) co-optimization of energy and ancillary service markets and improved resilience, including coordinated post-outage recovery.
Develop an open platform to articulate customer flexibility and motivate participation: customer-resource ontology, economic models, decision-support interfaces, service portfolios, behaviour models and electrothermal models of Quebec buildings.
Establish and evaluate a hierarchical structure to organize and aggregate flexible resources: management topologies, characterization of cluster flexibility, hierarchical and dynamic coordination, information networks and multi-agent systems.
Develop strategies for co-optimizing heterogeneous markets (energy and ancillary services) and improving grid reliability: interdependency models, bidding algorithms for aggregators, forward- and spot-contract dynamics, and coordinated post-outage recovery.
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.
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
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
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
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
