energy-economics

Code and data for the article "Reliable frequency regulation through vehicle-to-grid: Encoding legislation with robust constraints" by Dirk Lauinger, François Vuille, and Daniel Kuhn available at https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/msom.2022.0154 and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.06042v4.pdf. This project was funded by the Institut VEDECOM.

Code and data for the article "Frequency Regulation with Storage: On Losses and Profits" by Dirk Lauinger, François Vuille, and Daniel Kuhn, available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.03.022 and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.02987v2.pdf. This project was funded by the Institut VEDECOM.

Open Python toolkit for EU ETS analysis. Verified TNAC reference series, EEX auction prices, and MSR mechanism helpers from free public sources.

Code for the paper "Non-Constant Elasticity of Substitution and Intermittent Renewable Energy"

Where a BESS earns its day-ahead arbitrage revenue in Japan — JEPX FY2017–FY2025 (plus a partial FY2026) decomposed: not spikes but solar shape, scaled by fuel. With a cross-market ceiling table (arbitrage vs capacity vs balancing) and a documented cautionary tale.

Five-layer quantitative analytics platform for European gas and power markets. Covers cointegration scanning, forward curve PCA (TTF M+1 to M+18), Nordic price decomposition, ML regime detection (LSTM/HMM/FinBERT), VaR simulation, and BESS project finance. 31 modules, 9 live data sources.

Open-source techno-economic model and interactive LCOE calculator for UK Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP), covering launch cost, system mass, efficiency, lifecycle and finance.

Fusion fuel-supply and deployment-economics model: how much fusion capacity can exist by year X under fuel limits

Integrated research workflow hub: panel econometrics, energy & environmental economics, literature management (Zotero), LaTeX manuscripts, Stata/R/Python pipelines

Repository for data and code for: Rigaux, B., Hamels, S., & Ovaere, M. (2025). The proof of the pudding is in the heating: A field experiment on household engagement with heat pump flexibility. Energy Economics, 108, 108565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108565. Accepted preprint version at: https://ideas.repec.org/p/rug/rugwps/24-1101.html

Do fuel prices in Portugal rise faster than they fall? Weekly pass-through analysis of gasoline and diesel since 2019, with a Tableau dashboard.

Petroleum Market Intelligence System analyzing 25 years of U.S. fuel pricing data (2000-2024). Features EIA API integration, interactive visualizations, and automated market analysis revealing regional disparities and volatility patterns across PADD regions. Python | Pandas | Plotly

Techno-economic PyPSA model for post-subsidy operation strategies of an agricultural PV system.

File of analysis from my 3rd chapter of my doctoral thesis

How electricity-market pricing rules move money between the posted price and hidden side payments, and what a grid battery could earn.

Reverse-engineering Vattenfall's 2026 Danish offshore wind CfD bids (Nordsøen Midt 504, Hesselø 542 DKK/MWh): implied capex, WACC and yield

Long-term Generation Expansion Planning (GEP) for a 20-year horizon: Evaluating optimal energy mix (Gas, Coal, Nuclear, Solar, Wind) using economic optimization and cost-minimization models.

Volatility connectedness across the four submarkets of the Brazilian power system — Diebold-Yilmaz on half-hourly DESSEM marginal cost, 2021-2026

Repository for data and code for: Rigaux, B., Hamels, S., & Ovaere, M. (2025). Survey evidence on cost-effective residential flexibility contracts for electric vehicles and heat pumps. Working Paper 25/1130. Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.