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Publication Type	Funded research projects
Year of Publication	2022
Authors	F.-Javier Heredia; Marlyn Dayana Cuadrado Guevara
Type of participation	Leader
Duration	01/23-12/24
Call	PROYECTOS DE TRANSICIÓN ECOLÓGICA Y TRANSICIÓN DIGITAL 2021
Funding organization	MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA E INNOVACIÓN
Partners	IREC, Universitat de Girona, Universidad Comillas.
Full time researchers	2,5
Budget	149.500€
Project code	TED2021-131365B-C44
Key Words	research; TED2021-131365B-C44; energy communities; electricity markets; bilevel stochastic programming
Abstract	The general purpose of this subproject is to study the participation of energy communities in the multimarket structure of the wholesale electricity market in order to develop mathematical models and computational tools for the optimal bid to wholesale markets. From the point of view of the wholesale electricity market, all the complexity of the inner structure of energy communities (dispatchable and nondispatchable generation, storage, demand,) can be conceptually understood as a single virtual programming unit ( a Community Virtual Programming Unit, CVPU) that participate in the wholesale electricity multimarket structure (spot and ancillary-services markets). The final goal of this project is to develop a multi-stage stochastic-programming model for the Multimarket Optimal Bid of Energy Communities (MOBEC) problem that will be validated with real data from the Iberian Electricity Market (MIBEL). Conceptually speaking, energy communities are a complex energy system comprising dispatchable and non-dispatchable generation, energy storage systems and an own demand, that participate in the wholesale electricity market. Based on the experience of previous studies the extension of stochastic programming models to energy communities is a fairly natural and a sounded research methodology. First, the participation of energy communities in spot markets will be analysed. Spot markets (day and intraday) are the most important one in terms of the amount of energy traded. A CVPU will be defined allowing the energy community to submit bids to the single day ahead and to the multiple intraday markets, according to the MIBEL rules. Second, the participation of energy communities in ancillary services markets will be studied. Dispatchable generation units (thermal) together with storage devices and demand flexibility provide the energy community with reserve capabilities that can be bid to the secondary reserve market. The reserve of the CVPU will be defined, formulated and integrated in the (MOBEC) optimization model. The resulting model will be implemented and validated with real data from the real energy communities and the MIBEL. Multi-stage stochastic programming optimal bid models have been successfully developed so far for generation+storage units and will be extended in this project and adapted to the specific features of an energy community through a CVPU that participates in the wholesale electricity market as a single programming unit.
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Publication Type	Tesis de Grau i Màster // BSc and MSc Thesis
Year of Publication	2021
Authors	Ignasi Mañé Bosch
Director	F-Javier Heredia
Tipus de tesi	MSc Thesis
Titulació	Master in Statistics and Operations Reseafrch
Centre	Facultat de matemàtiques i Estadística
Data defensa	18/10/2021
Nota // mark	9.5
Key Words	teaching; electricity markets; multistage stochastic programming
Abstract	For many political and economic reasons, over the last decades, electricity markets in developed countries have been liberalised. Markets regulated by governments in which prices were set by the competent authority are now the exception. In this new setting, electricity agents, both consumers and producers, compete to maximise their protability in a series of auctions designed to efficiently match supply and demand. Many energy producers manage together wind and thermal generation units to meet their contractual obligations such as bilateral contracts, as well as bid on the electric market to sell their production capacity. This master thesis explore different multi-stage stochastic programming models for generation companies to nd optimal bid functions in electric spot markets. The explored models not only capture the uncertainty of electric prices of different markets and financial products, but also couples together wind and thermal generation units, offering producers that combine both technologies a more suitable approach to nd their best possible bidding strategy among the space of possible actions.
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Last July 21th, the work "Multistage Scenario Trees Generation for Electricity Markets Optimization" was presentated at the 31st European Conference on Operational Research  in an invited session of the stream "Stochastic and Robust Optimization". This study is a result of the PH.D. Thesis of Ms. Marlyn D. Cuadrado on scenarios trees generation for multistage stochastic programming in optimal electricity bid problems.

On November 30th 2020 took place the defense of the Ph.D. Thesis entittled "Multistage Scenario Trees Generation for Renewable Energy Systems Optimization", authored by Ms. Marlyn D. Cuadrado Guevara and advised by prof. F.-Javier Heredia. In this thesis a new methodology to generate and validate probability scenario trees for multistage stochastic programming problems arising in two different energy systems with renewables are proposed. The first problem corresponds to the optimal bid to electricity markets of a virtual power plant that consists on a wind-power plant plus a battery storage energy systems. The second one is the optimal operation of a distribution grid with some photovoltaic production.

Publication Type	Journal Article
Year of Publication	2020
Authors	Mattia Barbero; Cristina Corchero; Lluc Canals; Lucia Igualada; F.-Javier Heredia
Journal Title	Applied Energy
Volume	264
Journal Date	04/2020
Publisher	Elsevier
ISSN Number	0306-2619/
Key Words	Demand Aggregator; Regulatory framework; Ancillary Services; Demand Response; Tertiary building management; research; paper
Abstract	European Directives are incentivizing consumers to play an active role in the electricity system and to collaborate to maintain its stability, which has been historically provided by large generation power plants. However, it is not easy for the System Operator to handle the coexistence of consumers and generators in the same markets. Under these circumstances, a new actor allows small residential and commercial consumers to participate in flexibility markets: The Demand Aggregator. However, balancing markets opened to Demand Aggregators still present several barriers that do not allow their practical participation. This study analyzes barriers and enablers of four European electricity markets and proposes a new market framework that would enhance Demand Aggregators’ participation. To validate the proposed market and to understand the economic potentials of aggregated small tertiary buildings, a Demand Aggregator is simulated using real building’s consumption data. Results show that technical requirements to participate in balancing markets such as the minimum bid size, the symmetricity of the offer and the product resolution strongly affect incomes for Demand Aggregators. However, neither in the proposed market, the creation of a Demand Aggregator whose business model is focused on small tertiary buildings does not seem realistic due to low incomes in comparison to the fixed costs necessary to enable Demand Response, especially if only the air conditioning system is considered.
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DOI	10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.114707
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Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2018
Authors	Cristina Corchero; Josep Homs-Moreno; F.-Javier Heredia; Lucia Igualada; Mikel de Prada
Conference Name	23th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming
Conference Date	01-06/07/2018
Conference Location	Bordeaux
Type of Work	contributed presentation
Key Words	research; hybrid AC-DC; offshore wind power plant; local branching
Abstract	The current study analyses a hybrid o↵shore wind farm design in which individual wind turbine power converters are removed from wind turbines and are installed on intermediate o↵shore collector platforms. In this study a compact and small-sized mixedinteger linear optimisation model makes four decisions with the goal of minimising installation and operation costs: the location and the number of o↵shore platforms and power converters to be installed, the optimal wind farm cable layout and the cluster optimal operating frequency of each wind turbine. The solutions found either for small and large o↵shore wind farms improve notoriously real-world designs, reducing up to 8 percent installation and maintenance costs. On the optimization technical results, a variant of Local Branching has been developed, reducing in some cases more than half of computing time with respect to default Local Branching. The model developed serves as a mathematical tool to provide rigorous evidences of the suitability of the hybrid design versus traditional o↵shore wind farm designs.
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Publication Type	Journal Article
Year of Publication	2018
Authors	F.-Javier Heredia; Marlyn D. Cuadrado; Cristina Corchero
Journal Title	Computers and Operations Research
Volume	96
Pages	316-329
Journal Date	08/2018
Publisher	Elsevier
ISSN Number	0305-0548
Key Words	research; Battery energy storage systems; Electricity markets; Ancillary services market; Wind power generation; Virtual power plants; Stochastic programming; paper
Abstract	The recent cost reduction and technological advances in medium- to large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) makes these devices a true alternative for wind producers operating in electricity markets. Associating a wind power farm with a BESS (the so-called virtual power plant (VPP)) provides utilities with a tool that converts uncertain wind power production into a dispatchable technology that can operate not only in spot and adjustment markets (day-ahead and intraday markets) but also in ancillary services markets that, up to now, were forbidden to non-dispatchable technologies. What is more, recent studies have shown capital cost investment in BESS can be recovered only by means of such a VPP participating in the ancillary services markets. We present in this study a multi-stage stochastic programming model to find the optimal operation of a VPP in the day-ahead, intraday and secondary reserve markets while taking into account uncertainty in wind power generation and clearing prices (day-ahead, secondary reserve, intraday markets and system imbalances). A case study with real data from the Iberian electricity market is presented.
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DOI	10.1016/j.cor.2018.03.004
Preprint	http://hdl.handle.net/2117/118479
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Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2018
Authors	F.-Javier Heredia
Conference Name	Maths for Industry 4.0
Conference Date	19/02/2018
Conference Location	Barcelona
Type of Work	Round table
Key Words	research,; industrial mathematics; industry 4.0; BGSMath
Abstract	“Maths for Industry 4.0” will showcase how academic excellence at BGSMath is helping companies becoming digital. Join us to learn about successful collaborative initiatives, such as industrial doctoral theses, as well as the range of expertise you could benefit from. The workshop will be closed by a round table on Data Analytics. Our experts will discuss common challenges and trends across sectors, and how mathematical creativity enable solutions for supply chain, risk management, control and monitoring. This activity belongs to the Mobile Week Barcelona and it’s an open space for reflexion on digital transformation through art, science and technology.
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The Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics (BGSMath ) organized last February 19 2018 the workshop "Maths for Industry 4.0 " to showcase how academic excellence at BGSMath is helping companies becoming digital through several successful collaborative initiatives, such as industrial doctoral theses or consultancy and development projects of the BGSMaths's research groups in Data Science and Optimization. The workshop will be closed by the round table "Optimising data analytics for industry 4.0" where I was invited to participate as expert in supply chain optimization. This activity is embedded into the Mobile Week Barcelona and it's an open space for reflexion on digital transformation through art, science and technology. More photos of the event at this link .