Publications de François Richard Vuille

Reliable Frequency Regulation through Vehicle-to-Grid: Encoding Legislation with Robust Constraints

François Richard Vuille, Dirk Lauinger, Daniel Kuhn

Problem definition: Vehicle-to-grid increases the low utilization rate of privately owned electric vehicles by making their batteries available to electricity grids. We formulate a robust optimization problem that maximizes a vehicle owner’s expected profi ...

2024

Frequency Regulation with Storage: On Losses and Profits

François Richard Vuille, Dirk Lauinger, Daniel Kuhn

Low-carbon societies will need to store vast amounts of electricity to balance intermittent generation from wind and solar energy, for example, through frequency regulation. Here, we derive an analytical solution to the decision-making problem of storage o ...

2024

Dataset for the article "Frequency regulation with storage: On losses and profits"

François Richard Vuille, Dirk Lauinger, Daniel Kuhn

This dataset complements the article "Frequency regulation with storage: On losses and profits" by Dirk Lauinger, François Vuille, and Daniel Kuhn, available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02987. The dataset contains the following files: 1.

Zenodo2023

Future Urban Charging Solutions for Electric Vehicles

Vincent Kaufmann, François Richard Vuille, Dominic Villeneuve, Vincent Moreau, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

The numbers of electric vehicles (EV) will increase as many countries perceive EVs as a solution to reduce the emissions of transportation and therefore incentivize their adoption. However, the deployment of public charging infrastructure is lagging behind ...

2020

Hire fast, fire slow: the employment benefits of energy transitions

François Richard Vuille, Marc Vielle, Yann Füllemann, Vincent Moreau

The transition towards decarbonized and efficient energy systems has broad socio-economic implications. We estimate the potential impacts on employment from efforts in energy efficiency in industry, transport and buildings as well as substituting local ren ...

2020

Is decoupling a red herring? The role of structural effects and energy policies in Europe

François Richard Vuille, Vincent Moreau

2019

Enough Metals? Resource Constraints to Supply a Fully Renewable Energy System

François Richard Vuille, Vincent Moreau, Piero Carlo Dos Reis

The transition from a fossil fuel base to a renewable energy system relies on materials and, in particular, metals to manufacture and maintain energy conversion technologies. Supply constraints shift from fossil fuels to mineral resources. We assess the av ...

2019

On the Assessment of the CO2 Mitigation Potential of Woody Biomass

François Richard Vuille, François Maréchal, Emanuela Peduzzi, Victor Codina Gironès

Woody biomass, a renewable energy resource, accumulates solar energy in form of carbon hydrates produced from atmospheric CO2 and H2O. It is, therefore, a means of CO2 mitigation for society as long as the biogenic carbon released to the atmosphere when de ...

2018

Decoupling energy use and economic growth: Counter evidence from structural effects and embodied energy in trade

François Richard Vuille, Vincent Moreau

2018

Electric Vehicle Urban Charging by 2035 Preliminary Report

Vincent Kaufmann, François Richard Vuille, Dominic Villeneuve, Vincent Moreau, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

In this report the research team from the 2035 Urban Charging Research Project from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) presents a list of potential electric vehicle charging solution that could be implemented by 2035 in urban setting ...

2018

Coming Full Circle Why Social and Institutional Dimensions Matter for the Circular Economy

François Richard Vuille, Vincent Moreau

In light of the environmental consequences of linear production and consumption processes, the circular economy (CE) is gaining momentum as a concept and practice, promoting closed material cycles by focusing on multiple strategies from material recycling ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2017

Exergy assessment of future energy transition scenarios with application to Switzerland

Daniel Favrat, François Richard Vuille, François Maréchal, Victor Codina Gironès, Matteo Allais

Using an exergy based indicator is highly desirable to compare future national energy strategies. A new web- based information platform called energyscope.ch, informing the general public on the Swiss energy transition was presented at ECOS2016. This paper ...

2017

The information platform energyscope.ch on the energy transition scenarios

Daniel Favrat, François Richard Vuille, François Maréchal, Victor Codina Gironès

Switzerland like many countries plans to undertake an energy transition and the government proposes different paths for 2035 and 2050 to achieve it. However the authors of this paper felt the need for a better information of the public on the energy matter ...

2016

The critical role of risk in setting directions for water, food and energy policy and research

François Richard Vuille

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) challenge markets, regulators and practitioners to achieve multiple objectives on water, food and energy. This calls for responses that are coordinated and scaled appropriately. Learning from water-energy-food nexus ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Study of the drivers and asset management of pumped-storage power plants historical and geographical perspective

François Avellan, François Richard Vuille, Massimiliano Capezzali, Mélanie Guittet, Franco Romerio, Ludovic Gaudard

PSP (Pumped-storage power plants) represent the only mature option for large-scale electricity storage, and offer a wide range of grid management services, ranging from peak power production to ancillary services. This technology has undergone drastic prog ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Opportunities for Switzerland to Contribute to the Production of Algal Biofuels: the Hydrothermal Pathway to Bio-Methane

François Richard Vuille, Christian Ludwig, Mariluz Bagnoud, Dominik Refardt

Microalgae have a significant potential to be a sustainable source of fuel and thus are of interest in the transition to a sustainable energy system, in particular for resource-dependent countries such as Switzerland. Independence of fossil fuels, consider ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2015

Analyse des barrières à l'assainissement énergétique des bâtiments dans le canton de Vaud

Philippe Thalmann, François Richard Vuille, Philippe Bélanger

Les propriétaires immobiliers du canton de Vaud font très peu appel aux subventions du Programme Bâtiments qui encourage les rénovations énergétiques. L’étude «Analyse des barrières à l'assainissement énergétique des bâtiments dans le canton de Vaud» manda ...

2014

A quasi-Delphi study on technological barriers to the uptake of hydrogen as a fuel for transport applications : production, storage and fuel cell drivetrain considerations

François Richard Vuille

The introduction of hydrogen in transport, particularly using fuel cell vehicles, faces a number of technical and non-technical hurdles. However, their relative importance is unclear, as are the levels of concern accorded them within the expert community c ...

Elsevier2009