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22-09-2026
Jan Brändle explains why knowing how full your battery is remains a guessing game – and how smarter electricity trading can make you better at it
22-09-2026
Congratulations to Jan Brändle, who took the award for his paper “Optimal Battery Bidding under Decision-Dependent State-of-Charge Uncertainties”
21-09-2026
Using more solar power without expanding the electricity grid: researchers at the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA) have shown that the capacity of existing grids can be increased significantly through the coordinated control of solar installations.