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20192026
most citedFuture Deployment and Flexibility of Distributed Energy Resources in the Distribution Grids of Switzerland

7 citations · 32 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

eess.SY2026

Does Central Planning Fail Locally? Evaluating EV Charging Flexibility Optimization Across Grid Levels

Ambra Van Liedekerke, Lorenzo Zapparoli, María Parajeles Herrera +3

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a key enabler of global decarbonization, and their charging flexibility is crucial for integrating high shares of renewable energy into future power sys…

eess.SY2026

Efficient Multi-Market Scheduling of Virtual Power Plants via Spectral Representation of Uncertainty

Lorenzo Zapparoli, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Giovanni Sansavini

As the penetration of distributed energy resources increases, harnessing their flexibility becomes critical for power system operations. Virtual power plants (VPPs) offer a promisi…

eess.SY2026

Risk-Aware Multi-Market Scheduling of Virtual Power Plants with Dynamic Network Tariffs

Lorenzo Zapparoli, Paul Fäth, Blazhe Gjorgiev +1

As the penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) increases, harnessing their flexibility becomes critical for power system operations. Virtual power plants (VPPs) offer a…

eess.SY2026

A day-ahead market model for power systems: benchmarking and security implications

Andrej Stankovski, Blazhe Gjorgiev, James Ciyu Qin +1

Power system security assessments, e.g. via cascading outage models, often use operational set-points based on optimal power flow (OPF) dispatch. However, driven by cost minimizati…

eess.SY2025★ 1 cited

Multi-level informed optimization via decomposed Kriging for large design problems under uncertainty

Enrico Ampellio, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Giovanni Sansavini

Engineering design involves demanding models encompassing many decision variables and uncontrollable parameters. In addition, unavoidable aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties can…

eess.SY2025★ 2 cited

Power Reserve Capacity from Virtual Power Plants with Reliability and Cost Guarantees

Lorenzo Zapparoli, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Giovanni Sansavini

The growing penetration of renewable energy sources is expected to drive higher demand for power reserve ancillary services (AS). One solution is to increase the supply by integrat…

eess.SY2025★ 7 cited

Future Deployment and Flexibility of Distributed Energy Resources in the Distribution Grids of Switzerland

Lorenzo Zapparoli, Alfredo Oneto, María Parajeles Herrera +3

The decarbonization goals worldwide drive the energy transition of power distribution grids, which operate under increasingly volatile conditions and closer to their technical limi…

eess.SY2025

Optimal Duration of Reserve Capacity Ancillary Services for Distributed Energy Resources

Lorenzo Zapparoli, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Giovanni Sansavini

The increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) into power systems presents opportunities and challenges for ancillary services (AS) provision. Technical requirem…

cs.LG2025

Wasserstein-based Kernel Principal Component Analysis for Clustering Applications

Alfredo Oneto, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Giovanni Sansavini

Many data clustering applications must handle objects that cannot be represented as vectors. In this context, the bag-of-vectors representation describes complex objects through di…

physics.soc-ph2024

Policy-relevance of a Model Inter-comparison: Switzerland in the European Energy Transition

Ambra Van Liedekerke, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Jonas Savelsberg +7

The energy transition is reshaping electricity systems, bringing new challenges, and emphasizing the need for strategic planning. Energy policies play a crucial role in guiding thi…

eess.SY2024★ 1 cited

Physics-Informed Graph Neural Networks for Robust AC-Optimal Power Flow

Anna Varbella, Damien Briens, Blazhe Gjorgiev +3

We present PINCO, an unsupervised learning framework that integrates Graph Neural Networks with physics-informed neural networks for AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) solutions. Unlik…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Foundation Models for the Electric Power Grid

Hendrik F. Hamann, Thomas Brunschwiler, Blazhe Gjorgiev +24

Foundation models (FMs) currently dominate news headlines. They employ advanced deep learning architectures to extract structural information autonomously from vast datasets throug…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

PowerGraph: A power grid benchmark dataset for graph neural networks

Anna Varbella, Kenza Amara, Blazhe Gjorgiev +2

Power grids are critical infrastructures of paramount importance to modern society and, therefore, engineered to operate under diverse conditions and failures. The ongoing energy t…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

An Improved Anomaly Detection Model for Automated Inspection of Power Line Insulators

Laya Das, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Giovanni Sansavini

Inspection of insulators is important to ensure reliable operation of the power system. Deep learning is being increasingly exploited to automate the inspection process by leveragi…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Uncertainty-aware deep learning for digital twin-driven monitoring: Application to fault detection in power lines

Laya Das, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Giovanni Sansavini

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are often coupled with physics-based models or data-driven surrogate models to perform fault detection and health monitoring of systems in the low data…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Object detection-based inspection of power line insulators: Incipient fault detection in the low data-regime

Laya Das, Mohammad Hossein Saadat, Blazhe Gjorgiev +2

Deep learning-based object detection is a powerful approach for detecting faulty insulators in power lines. This involves training an object detection model from scratch, or fine t…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 6 cited

Neural tangent kernel analysis of PINN for advection-diffusion equation

M. H. Saadat, B. Gjorgiev, L. Das +1

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) numerically approximate the solution of a partial differential equation (PDE) by incorporating the residual of the PDE along with its initi…

cs.MA2020

Multi-agent maintenance scheduling based on the coordination between central operator and decentralized producers in an electricity market

Pegah Rokhforoz, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Giovanni Sansavini +1

Condition-based and predictive maintenance enable early detection of critical system conditions and thereby enable decision makers to forestall faults and mitigate them. However, d…

eess.SY2019

Can models for long-term decarbonization policies guarantee security of power supply? A perspective from gas and power sector coupling

Andrea Antenucci, Pedro Crespo del Granado, Blazhe Gjorgiev +1

The assessment of adequacy and security of the energy system requires the detailed knowledge of physical and operational characteristics. In contrast, studies concerning energy tra…