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Building decision systems for electricity markets and energy assets

I work at the boundary of power-market research, market practice, and AI systems for energy operations. This site is my public layer for essays, research, publications, media links, and collaboration.

Portrait of Hou Shengren
Research trainingTU Delft PhD
Market practiceFormer European power-market quantitative trader
Decision systemsFounder and operator
Public researchAdjunct researcher at Tsinghua EE Dept

Focus

What I work on

Electricity Markets

Market design, cross-border mechanisms, short-term market behavior, price formation, and the rules that shape decisions.

Energy AI

Forecasting, probabilistic modeling, optimization, reinforcement learning, and safe decision systems for energy operations.

Storage & Flexibility

Battery dispatch, flexibility strategy, and market participation under operational and regulatory constraints.

Research Translation

Turning strong methods into public writing, useful workflows, and decision systems that can be examined.

Current work

The decision layer for market-facing energy assets

Power markets are becoming more operational, more volatile, and more data-driven. Energy assets now need better ways to combine market rules, forecasts, strategy, execution, and risk review.

My work focuses on that decision layer: how market-facing energy assets can reason about prices, constraints, uncertainty, and accountability with support from research methods and AI systems.

Research details

Decision systems

From market facts to accountable action

The public framing behind my current work: decision agents should help energy teams connect evidence, constraints, decisions, and review instead of only generating analysis.

  1. 01

    Rules

    Market design, tariffs, bidding constraints, asset limits, and operational boundaries.

  2. 02

    Forecasts

    Prices, uncertainty, renewable output, demand, flexibility, and scenario distributions.

  3. 03

    Strategy

    Dispatch logic, participation choices, risk appetite, and portfolio-level priorities.

  4. 04

    Execution

    Human-reviewed actions, operating receipts, exceptions, and traceable workflow states.

  5. 05

    Risk control

    Policy boundaries, anomaly checks, override paths, and failure-mode awareness.

  6. 06

    Review

    Post-event learning, model feedback, decision records, and accountable improvement.

Experience

Public background

The through-line is research training, market practice, AI decision-system building, and public writing.

Founder and operator

Building energy decision workflows and public-facing research translation around market operations.

European power-market practice

Former European power-market quantitative trader, with practical exposure to short-term markets and price behavior.

Research training

TU Delft PhD, with public research across energy systems, AI, optimization, and decision methods.

Academic role

Adjunct researcher at Tsinghua, with public work connected to energy AI and electricity-market decisions.

Selected work

Publications and writing

Representative public research and long-form writing on energy systems, storage, and decision methods.

Publications

  • RL-ADN: A high-performance Deep Reinforcement Learning environment for optimal Energy Storage Systems dispatch in active distribution networks

    Energy and AI, 2025.

  • Safe Imitation Learning-based Optimal Energy Storage Systems Dispatch in Distribution Networks

    arXiv, 2024.

Browse publications

Contact

Open to public conversations around energy technology, power markets, and AI decision systems.

If your work touches electricity markets, storage, energy AI, speaking, or research translation, email is the cleanest starting point.

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