Currently, each European TSO, has a complete control over its national balancing processes: in case of imbalance, the TSO activates unilaterally its domestic resources, if necessary checking that such activation does not result in grid infeasibility. This is about to change in the coming years with the implementation of the European balancing platforms such as […]

Guarantee the security of electricity supply for several million consumers is the daily challenge of the TSO. With the energy transition, new constraints are emerging in the energy landscape with a direct impact on the planning of grid activities requiring outages. In such a context, Elia, one of the European TSO’s, has launched a new […]

FlexPlan project highlighted at Innogrid 2020 The H2020 FlexPlan project aims at developing and testing a new grid planning tool, considering investments in flexibility, storage, grid reinforcements/expansion for transmission and distribution grids. Environmental and security/reliability constraints are also taken into account, as well as the probabilistic nature of the problem (due to the uncertain nature of […]

Join the N-SIDE team at the 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting. WHEN? 07 – 13 November, 2020 | Starting time: 8:30AM EST (2:30PM CET) WHERE? This is a virtual event and all content will be available on demand INFORMS is the leading international association for Operations Research & Analytics professionals. Throughout the week, thousands of students, […]

The Euphemia Lab, providing cutting edge R&D services to bring PCR EUPHEMIA to the next level for the Single Day-ahead Coupling (SDAC) of European electricity markets, has delivered the past months, its first important successes. The target European electricity market model and provisions of the European regulations seek to implement a Single Day-ahead Coupling (SDAC) […]

Adrien Rosen and Pierre Artoisenet, Senior Consultants in our Energy team gave a detailed presentation at E-world 2020 about how to avoid the black-box effect of Artificial Intelligence in time series forecasting. Increasing penetration of intermittent generation leads to increasing market volatility and higher risk in the portfolios. The N-SIDE electricity price forecasts help portfolio managers […]