Publications de Alessio Santecchia

The critical role of electricity storage for a clean and renewable European economy

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Paul Michael Stadler, Alessio Santecchia

A fully renewable Europe is a major climate goal and an assumed priority by the European Union. However, intermittent renewables require hefty backup power sources to compensate for sudden generation shortfalls, ensuring grid stability and balance across t ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

Industrial Flexibility as Demand Side Response for Electrical Grid Stability

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Alessio Santecchia

Electricity markets are currently experiencing a period of rapid change. The intermittent nature of renewable energy is disrupting the conventional methods used in operational planning of the electrical grid, causing a shift from a day-ahead forecast polic ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Enabling renewable Europe through optimal design and operation

Alessio Santecchia

Europe is currently transitioning from fossil energy sources to renewable generation of electric power. Although fundamental to reach net-zero targets, intermittent renewables are disrupting conventional methods used in operational planning and design of p ...

EPFL2022

Key Performance Indicators for Decision Making in Building Energy Systems

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Luise Middelhauve, Alessio Santecchia

Policy makers and energy operator have the responsibility to select indicators for their mission to lead the renewable energy transition ensuring energy independence and security of supply in the context of decarbonisation of the energy mix and and/or nucl ...

2020

Industrial flexibility as demand-side response for electrical grid stability

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Alessio Santecchia

Electricity markets are currently experiencing a period of rapid change. The intermittent nature of renewable energy is disrupting the conventional methods used in operational planning of the electrical grid, causing a shift from a day-ahead forecast polic ...

ECOS 2020 Local Organizing Committee2020

Application of data reconciliation methods for performance monitoring of power-to-gas plants

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Jonas Schnidrig, Alessio Santecchia

Power-to-gas plants have recently gained more attraction as these storage systems can be deployed in the European energy grid to ease the integration of renewable energy sources. Most studies in this field address several aspects, from their technical perf ...

ECOS 2020 Local Organizing Committee2020

Long- and short-lists of key performance indicators in industry and for industrial symbiosis

François Maréchal, Hür Ebuzer Bütün, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Alessio Santecchia, Jean-Loup Sylvain Robineau, Franz Wolf

2019

Thermal profile construction for energy-intensive industrial sectors

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde, Maziar Kermani, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Hür Ebuzer Bütün, Alessio Santecchia, Franz Wolf

Industrial plant data are difficult to find in academic literature for a number of reasons such as confidentiality, and thus intentional masking, or problem size reduction. These common practices limit the ability of researchers to apply novel methods to r ...

2018