Rate My Professor Erik Delarue

Delarue's research specializes in energy systems modeling, including operational optimization via mixed-integer linear programming for unit commitment, expansion planning models like TIMES, equilibrium models for market interactions, agent-based models for policy impacts, and data-driven approaches. His analyses address energy policy and market design topics such as storage roles, demand-side flexibility, sector coupling of electricity, gas, and heat, EU Emissions Trading System effects, renewable support mechanisms, adequacy assessment, capacity mechanisms, and cross-border balancing. He supervises projects including Accemo on offshore wind impacts, NEPTUNE for North Sea wind energy transition, AMIGDALA for industrial decarbonization modeling, and REINVENT for Belgian sector coupling roadmaps. Key publications encompass "Assessing the need and design of industrial decarbonisation policy beyond carbon pricing" (2026, PhD thesis supervision), "Managing connection queues in distribution networks with flexible connection agreements" (2025, Applied Energy), "Carbon Contracts for Difference Design: Managing carbon price risk in a low-carbon industry" (2025), and "Barriers to efficient carbon pricing: policy risk, myopic behaviour, and financial constraints" (2025).