Due to recent technical progress, battery energy storages are becoming a viable option in the power sector. Their optimal operational management focuses on load shift and shaving of price spikes. However, this requires optimally responding to electricity demand, intermittent generation, and...

Due to recent technical progress, battery energy storages are becoming a viable option in the power sector. Their optimal operational management focuses on load shift and shaving of price spikes. However, this requires optimally responding to electricity demand, intermittent generation, and...

According to theoretical arguments, a properly designed emission trading system should help reaching pollution reduction at low social burden. Based on the theoretical work of environmental economists, cap-and-trade systems are put into operations all over the world. However, the practice from...

In industrial appli ations, optimal c ontrol problems frequently appear in the c ontext of dec isions-making under inc omplete information. In su ch framework, dec isions must be adapted dynami cally to acc ount for possible regime c hanges of the underlying dynamic s. Using sto hastic filtering...