4 papers
Technology configurations for decarbonizing residential heat supply through district heating and implications for the electricity network
Christian Doh Dinga, Francesco Lombardi, Roald Arkesteijn +4
District heating networks (DHNs) have significant potential to decarbonize residential heating and accelerate the energy transition. However, designing carbon-neutral DHNs requires…
Coordinated planning of European charging infrastructure and energy system for optimal V1G and V2G deployment
Francesco Sanvito, Francesco Lombardi, Stefan Pfenninger-Lee
Vehicle charging infrastructure targets in Europe currently rely on uniform benchmarks and overlook the flexibility that could be provided by future smart charging (V1G) and vehicl…
Optimising for the long game: methodological challenges in energy system optimisation pathways
Ivan Ruiz Manuel, Meijun Chen, Francesco Lombardi +1
Pathways that describe the optimal evolution of energy systems across multiple decades are important in energy system research and policy literature, with net-zero and similar clim…
Funplex: A Modified Simplex Algorithm to Efficiently Explore Near-Optimal Spaces
Christoph S. Funke, Linda Brodnicke, Francesco Lombardi +1
Modeling to generate alternatives (MGA) is an increasingly popular method in energy system optimization. MGA explores the near-optimal space, namely, system alternatives whose cost…