Full name: Nicolas F Honing
Formal name: Drs. N.F Honing
Function: PhD student

Email: N.F.Honing@cwi.nl
Telephone +31(0)20 592 4330
Room:  M365
Homepage:  http://www.nicolashoening.de
Research groups:
(SEN4) Multi-agent and adaptive computation

Research

I examine market-based approaches to tackle the uncertainty for decentralised players in the domain of smart grids and energy systems. Currently, the uptake of intermittent generation and market liberalisation in electricity systems poses new challenges and opportunities. Agent-based markets in smart grids are an important approach to address them.

Three projects that I work on:

I investigate novel market models (auctions) which bundle the day-ahead power market with the reserve market. During a day-ahead phase, bids of power generators and consumers are used to clear (and co-optimise) both markets.

I study how retail contracts using a partially dynamic pricing regime affect flexible and non-flexible energy consumers.

I model a distributed and stochastic scheduling problem of electricity consumers sharing a limited cable connection and ask if there is a pricing strategy that is both allocatively efficient and fair.

As a contemporary observer, I am interested in the dynamic interoperability of our energy systems and how they change as we speak. I comment on the most interesting developments in a dedicated blog.

Career

2009 - 2013

PhD student SEN4 - Multi-agent and Adaptive Computation

Recent Publications

Nicolas Höning, J.A. La Poutré. Reduction of Market Power and Stabilisation of Outcomes in a Novel and Simplified Two-Settlement Electricity Market. Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology 2012, Macau, 2012.

Nicolas Höning, J.A. La Poutré. Flexible Consumers Reserving Electricity and Offering Profitable Downward Regulation. Proceedings of the Third IEEE PES Conference On Innovative Smart Grid Technologies 2012, Berlin, Germany, 2012.

Nicolas Höning, H. Noot, J.A. La Poutré. Integrating power and reserve trade in electricity networks. Proceedings of the 23rd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Gent, Belgium, 1–463, 2011.

Nicolas Höning, H. Noot, J.A. La Poutré. Integrating power and reserve trade in electricity networks. Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2011 (10), Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011.

Nicolas Höning, M.C. Schut. Modelling Dynamic Forgetting in Distributed Information Systems. KES-AMSTA 2010, Lecture notes in artificial intelligence 6071, Gdynia, Poland, 2010.

All publications (link to repository)