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We are happy to have a new team member onboard! Since 1 June 2023, Jean-Luc Timmermans has joined DemandFlex as a PhD researcher in Engineering.
Jean-Luc will be conducting his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Prof. Pierre Henneaux, focusing on technical aspects of demand side flexibility.
Jean-Luc holds a MSC degree in Electromechanical Engineering from from Université catholique de Louvain.
His full research and CV can be found here

Welcome Jean-Luc!

On 20 February 2023, Irmak Naz Karakislak from Department Environmental Psychology at IZES gGmbH will give us a presentation on her PhD thesis topic.
The title of her presentation will be "Participation in German renewable energy cooperatives: Potentials and vulnerabilities" which will include the gender implications on renewable energy cooperatives in Germany as well.

Interested to join and participate in the discussions? Please register by sending an email to demanflex@ulb.be

On 10 November 2022, Leticia and Marie, PhD students in Economics and Law respectively, were interviewed by Radio Campus, a French-speaking radio from the ULB, to present and discuss their research on the consumer-side of electricity markets.
They discuss the rising interest for “demand-side flexibility” in the current electricity crisis, the benefits this flexibility can bring to the system and to consumers, and put forward some barriers restraining the use of demand-side flexibility to its full potential.

The complete interview is available here (link is still missing)

We are happy to have a new team member onboard! Since 1 October 2022, Elise Viadere has joined DemandFlex as a PhD researcher in Economics.
Elise will be conducting her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Estelle Cantillon, focusing on regulation of electricity markets and demand side flexibility.
Elise holds a M.Res. in Quantitative Economics from Université Paris-Dauphine PSL.
Her full research and CV can be found here

Welcome Elise!

In the BEAMS department of the École polytechnique de Bruxelles of the Université libre de  Bruxelles (ULB), we have a fully-funded PhD position in the framework of the DemandFlex research project funded by the Belgian Federal Energy Transition Fund, and we are looking for a motivated PhD candidate with an interest in techno-economic optimization of electricity markets.
The prospective PhD candidate will work on the technical aspects of demand flexibility foreseen in the DemandFlex project research under co-supervision of Pierre Henneaux and Mohammad Moradzadeh. The detailed job description and application procedure can be found here

We are happy to have a new team member onboard! Since 1 January 2022, Marie Beudels has joined DemandFlex as a PhD researcher in law.
Marie graduated in 2019 from a Master degree in law from the University of Liège and in 2020 from a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Harvard Law School. Marie will be working on WP2 (T2.1, T2.2) of DemandFlex project under the supervision of Prof. Emmanuel Slautsky and will analyse the Belgian regulatory restrictions to the flexibility of electricity demand. Prior to joining the ULB and DemandFlex, Marie has worked as a lawyer at the Brussels bar and as legal researcher at the KU Leuven Center for IT & IP law.
Welcome Marie!

We are happy to have a new team member with us! Since 1 October 2021, Leticia Pieraerts has joined DemandFlex. Leticia will be working on WP3 (T3.1, T3.2).
Her full research and CV can be found here.
Welcome Leticia!

On 1 October 2021, project "Improved Security of Electricity Supply by Demand Flexibility (acronym DemandFlex)“ formally started. It is a 5-year Energy Transition Fund (ETF) project funded by FPS Economy
with a total budget of EUR 1.15 m.
Making demand more flexible can be an essential lever to ensure the reliability of the electricity network without requiring massive investments in capacity.
However, there are still legal, economic and technical obstacles exploiting the full potential of flexible demand. DemandFlex project aims to study these obstacles, to provide solutions in order to make demand as flexible as possible and to demonstrate the beneficial effect of these solutions on the security of supply in electricity and the balance of the transmission network.