PhD Position Future Energy Infrastructure Planning Under Uncertainty in collaboration with Stedin
open universiteit · Delft, NL
Do you want to develop innovative solutions to support urgent energy infrastructure planning challenges? Do you want to have direct real world impact by working closely with the Dutch distribution grid operator Stedin? Job description Grid operators, such as Stedin, must urgently plan near term investments in energy infrastructure to ensure a carbon neutral, robust, adequate, cost effective, and socially acceptable system in the long term, with impacts, opportunities, and barriers extending beyond 2050. This planning task is extremely challenging due to deep uncertainty regarding technological and societal developments across all sectors of the economy that influence the energy system's demand, as well as parallel planning decisions taken by other system actors. A relevant case in point of the complex and uncertain interdependency between energy planning and socio technical developments is the greenhouse horticulture sector, which in the Netherlands significantly contributes to both the economy and the energy system. Greenhouses currently meet their local electricity, heating, and CO2 needs via gas fuelled combined heat and power CHP plants, which can operate flexibly and thereby a