Publications by Paul Michael Stadler

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

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

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

Grid-Aware Layout of Photovoltaic Panels in Sustainable Building Energy Systems

François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler, Luise Middelhauve, Francesco Baldi

In the context of increasing concern for anthropogenic CO2 emissions, the residential building sector still represents a major contributor to energy demand. The integration of renewable energy sources, and particularly of photovoltaic (PV) panels, is becom ...

2021

Optimal integration of sustainable multi-energy systems in districts

François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler

The integration of renewable energy sources within the built environment is a compelling challenge to tackle. With the recent climate targets aiming at a carbon neutral energy supply by the mid-century, a modern building energy system (BES) should maximize ...

ECOS 2020 Organizing Committee2020

Systematic Integration of Energy-Optimal Buildings With District Networks

Luc Girardin, François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu, Ivan Daniel Kantor

The residential sector accounts for a large share of worldwide energy consumption, yet is difficult to characterise, since consumption profiles depend on several factors from geographical location to individual building occupant behaviour. Given this diffi ...

2019

Model-based sizing of building energy systems with renewable sources

Paul Michael Stadler

The built environment currently represents the largest sector in terms of final energy consumption, both in Switzerland and the European Union. Most of the associated energy services, such as space heating and potable hot water preparation, are mainly sati ...

EPFL2019

SCCER JA-RED - Detailed evaluation of the grid operation bottlenecks and load shifting potential for the reference system - Deliverable 1.2.2

Luc Girardin, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Paul Michael Stadler, Jordan Holweger, Luise Middelhauve

Based on the analysis of the reference case, models developed at the PVLAB-EPFL and IPESEEPFL have been valued and improved to assess the impact of distributed generation and ancillary services on REel demonstrator. The models are used to evaluate solution ...

2019

SCCER-FURIES - Design of Sizes for Buildings Energy Systems as a Function of the Grid Evolution - Deliverable 1.4.1a

Luc Girardin, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Paul Michael Stadler, Jordan Holweger, Hervé Tommasi, Luise Middelhauve

The increasing use of renewable energy is a deep going trend mainly supported by the sustained annual growth rate of solar photovoltaic, wind power and biogases. The expansion and evolution of the distribution grids is therefore a key issue to ensure a sec ...

2018

Contribution of Model Predictive Control in the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources within the Built Environment

Luc Girardin, François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler, Araz Ashouri

Integrating intermittent renewable energy sources has renders the power network operator task of balancing electricity generation and consumption increasingly challenging. Aside from heavily investing in additional storage capacities, an interesting soluti ...

2018

SCCER-FURIES - Report on the role of multi-carrier, multi-services, multi-grids integrated energy conversion systems and their possible role in the Swiss energy 2050 - Deliverable D1.5.3

Luc Girardin, François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler

The optimisation of distributed and renewable energy systems in buildings has shown that zero energy systems, using existing technologies, is within reach in the household sector where the thermal and the systems can support each other to increase renewabl ...

2017

SCCER-FURIES - A decision support tool for the geo-localised design and assessment of the integration of multi-carrier/multi-services/multi-grids innovative energy conversion systems in urban systems and industrial clusters - Deliverable 1.5.4

Luc Girardin, François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler

The computing platform (OSMOSELua) has been developed in the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group IPESE at EPFL as a flexible and robust tool for the design of complex integrated energy systems. The decision tool has been developed using ...

2017

The swiss potential of model predictive control for building energy systems

Luc Girardin, François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler

This paper presents a preliminary assessment of the potential economic benefit resulting from the use of smart energy management systems in buildings. The proposed approach relies on the application of model predictive control (MPC) and a self-consumption ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2017

Towards energy-autonomous cities using CO2 networks and Power to Gas storage

François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler, Araz Ashouri, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

Under Energy Strategy 2050, the federal government of Switzerland plans to greatly reduce per capita energy consumption, decrease the share of fossil fuels, and replace the nuclear electricity generation by gains in efficiency and use of renewable energy s ...

2016

Model-based optimization of distributed and renewable energy systems in buildings

François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler, Araz Ashouri

In order to fully exploit the potential of renewable energy resources (RERs) for building applications, opti- mal design and control of the different energy systems is a compelling challenge to address. This paper presents a two-step multi-objective optimi ...

2016

Distributed model predictive control of energy systems in microgrids

François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler, Araz Ashouri

This paper presents a flexible and modular control scheme based on distributed model predictive control (DMPC) to achieve optimal operation of decentralized energy systems in smart grids. The proposed approach is used to coordinate multiple distributed ene ...

IEEE2016