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University of Colorado Boulder
Power systems, Optimization, Machine learning
Constance is a postdoctoral researcher at CU Boulder, working with Professor Kyri Baker. She received both Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Oxford, in 201 and 2020 respectively. At the end of her PhD, she spent a year working with the UK Government Energy Department advising on policy related to transport, energy markets, and power infrastructure. Her research focuses on the integration of flexible electricity demand into power systems, in order to ease the transition to renewable energy.
Low Carbon Electricity Networks with Human-in-the-loop
Decarbonization of the power sector is crucial to combat climate change, so our power grid operation must urgently adapt. The introduction of smart devices (such as electric vehicle charging) adds volatility, but also flexibility to consumer demand, presenting both liability and opportunity to the system operator. My research investigates how this flexibility can be safely exploited, protecting both the power infrastructure and the privacy/autonomy of the consumer. I aim both to accurately quantify the potential of flexible demand, and to develop methods which can realistically dispatch it.