Jack Simpson

I had a fantastic time touring the wind farms at Palm Springs in California today.

During my PyCon presentation on Mathematical optimisation, I used the example of the knapsack problem to walk people through the structure of a linear program.

When I was at PyCon, I had a number of people ask me what resources they could use to to learn more about mathematical optimisation.

In November I was fortunate to have the opportunity to present at PyCon AU in Melbourne, Australia.

Earlier this week I came across an article about how New England Solar was planning to sell off its solar farms in Australia due to the impact of network congestion: New Energy Solar’s CEO Liam Thomas said a flood of new projects had resulted in curtailme…

Since the energy sector is full of optimisation problems, I thought I’d share some talks from JuliaCon 2021 that touch on the topic.

Every 5 minutes, AEMO will dispatch generators across the National Electricity Market (NEM) in order to meet demand.

In the National Electricity Market (NEM), power stations can bid in their availability in 10 different pricing tranches.

One of the fun things about playing with hundreds of millions of rows of energy market data is that you can just go hunting through it for interesting anomalies.

Here’s a few interesting pieces of energy-related content I’ve come across this week. 1.