Persons

prof. Ing. Oldřich Starý, CSc.

Archive of PhD students

Ing. Pavel Náplava, Ph.D.

Real Options and their Usage in Information Technologies

Ing. Lukáš Dvořáček, Ph.D.

Department of Economics, Management and Humanities

Optimizing electric vehicle charging infrastructure: enhancing efficiency, utilizing alternative energy sources and addressing transaction costs

Dissertation topics

Agent systems used in energy sector

  • Branch of study: Economics of Energy and Electrical Engineering
  • Department: Department of Economics, Management and Humanities
    • Description:
      The thesis is aimed at utilization of artificial intelligence for forecasting of electricity prices, other energy commodities prices, electricity supply and demand.

Artificial intelligence and its use in decision processes in energy sector

  • Branch of study: Economics of Energy and Electrical Engineering
  • Department: Department of Economics, Management and Humanities
    • Description:
      Thesis is focused on energy decision processes supported by artificial intelligence. It should be aimed primarily on electricity prices forecasting, behavior prediction of electricity markets as well as EU ETS markets.

Economic and financial analysis of projects - risk, prediction, benchmarking

  • Branch of study: Economics of Energy and Electrical Engineering
  • Department: Department of Economics, Management and Humanities
    • Description:
      The topic includes, among other things, methods of economic evaluation of the development of projects in the field of production and supply of electricity and heat, including RES. The topic includes methods of risk analysis of projects, modeling of energy commodity prices (electricity, allowances, biomass, etc.). The topic also includes benchmarking applications for evaluating project efficiency, particularly in the field of electricity distribution.

Economic aspects of electricity distribution and transmission - smart grids, operational management of the system operation.

  • Branch of study: Economics of Energy and Electrical Engineering
  • Department: Department of Economics, Management and Humanities
    • Description:
      The theme includes, among others, the methods of economic and systemic impacts of smart grids and smart metering, methods for optimizing the economic management of the operation of ES (production units, distribution and transmission systems, specific electricity sales on voltage levels of the system).

Economic context of reliability of electricity supply

  • Branch of study: Economics of Energy and Electrical Engineering
  • Department: Department of Economics, Management and Humanities
    • Description:
      The topic includes, among other things, the methods of economic evaluation of investments in relation to the reliability of the supply of electricity from the transmission and distribution system. It also includes methods for economically evaluating the benefits of storage technologies and smart grids for the reliability of electricity system.

Electricity trading

  • Branch of study: Economics of Energy and Electrical Engineering
  • Department: Department of Economics, Management and Humanities
    • Description:
      The main aim of the thesis is to analyze electricity markets behavior, electricity prices forecasting under the massive RES utilization. Other issues to be covered are connected with risk hedging with the help of power derivatives, futures contracts etc.

EU electricity markets

  • Branch of study: Economics of Energy and Electrical Engineering
  • Department: Department of Economics, Management and Humanities
    • Description:
      The main of the thesis is to find proper and fair methods how to manage and operate EU electricity markets with the special focus on the local transmission operators. Issues such as bidding zones optimization, natural power flows, transmission rights etc. should be taken into account.

EU electricity markets

  • Branch of study: Economics of Energy and Electrical Engineering
  • Department: Department of Economics, Management and Humanities
    • Description:
      The main of the thesis is to find proper and fair methods how to manage and operate EU electricity markets with the special focus on the local transmission operators. Issues such as bidding zones optimization, natural power flows, transmission rights etc. should be taken into account.

Optimal renewal of long-term assets in the energy sector

  • Branch of study: Economics of Energy and Electrical Engineering
  • Department: Department of Economics, Management and Humanities
    • Description:
      The topic includes, among other things, methods of economic evaluation of energy system development, link to the regulatory environment, evaluation of efficiency of new technologies based on smart grids, methods of evaluating the efficiency of investments in relation to system reliability, methods for optimization of asset renewal.

Tariff systems in electric power system.

  • Branch of study: Economics of Energy and Electrical Engineering
  • Department: Department of Economics, Management and Humanities
    • Description:
      The theme includes, among other things, the creation of tariffs for individual groups of customers segmented by type of consumption, according to the amount of consumption and the voltage level. Includes methods of analyzing specific revenue at individual voltage levels and linking to tariffs. It also includes the influence of the regulatory environment for the transmission and distribution of electricity, including the connection to the regulatory environment in the heat industry (cogeneration production of electricity).

Responsible person Ing. Mgr. Radovan Suk