Theotime COUDRAY

theotime-coudray

Smart Energy

Campus: Toulon
+336.18.07.61.04

Sobriety and efficiency, for a better understanding of scarcity.

Core business

In a world in upheaval, access to clean, affordable and safe energy is a major challenge. It is not simply a matter of finding new sources of energy to exploit, but rather of changing our consumption patterns in order to achieve energy balance. With the support of technology, it is possible to optimize our systems, on any scale, to make them more adapted to the constraints we face today.

It is in this context that my R&D activities are placed within the ISEN Yncréa Méditerranée. At the crossroads of technological, environmental and economic issues, I seek to identify new energy approaches based on local, participative and renewable resources.

Prospective

The efficient use of energy depends in particular on users' ability to modulate their consumption according to various parameters: availability of renewable resources, dynamic prices or network constraints. To achieve this, we need not only to educate people, but also to make available tools that enable them to obtain information in real time and act on their consumption. This is where the interoperability of different energy uses comes into its own. For example, having access to a single platform for controlling the use of your various electrical appliances enables you to take effective action on your energy consumption, for example by heating your cumulus at peak sunshine times, when the sun's resources are most available. Thanks to this type of tool, players are becoming aware of the technological, social and environmental pillars underpinning the energy transition.

360°

The interoperability of energy uses is still in its infancy. If many tools have already been developed, it is now necessary to be able to make them communicate with each other to meet various use cases. Self-consumption is also still underdeveloped and needs to be promoted to individuals. In the near future, we can imagine that all new buildings will meet strict environmental standards, and will tend to be positive in terms of their energy balance. When electricity production becomes variable and intermittent, it is indeed a whole system logic that needs to be rethought, in particular by promoting flexibility of use or by developing storage means.

About me

After graduating with a master's degree in energy economics, I embarked on a career in research by starting a doctoral thesis. Still in the field of energy economics, this thesis deals with the integration of renewable energies in the electricity mix of the Occitanie region. After three years of work on the subject, during which I developed a forecasting tool for intermittent energy produced by solar and wind power plants in the region, I decided to continue in this direction by becoming a Smart Energy Teacher-Researcher at the ISEN.

Areas of expertise

My areas of interest are energy system modeling, artificial neural network forecasting and efficient use of flexibility sources. I also have a good knowledge of the functioning of energy markets as well as a solid foundation in microeconomics, statistics and Python programming.

Research and development activities

My research focuses on the evaluation of energy and non-energy services that can be provided by an interoperability platform. To do so, I try to quantify the energy savings realized thanks to the platform, but also to measure the change in comfort level that can be induced by the use of this platform. At the same time, I accompany and connect different actors from the industrial, academic and public world to develop new use cases around energy flexibility.

Teaching activities

I am currently teaching practical work to students in the Smart Energy option. These practical works aim at making students familiar with the use of solar kits and electric vehicle charging stations. These courses are also an opportunity to introduce students to the concepts of self-consumption, flexibility and energy sobriety.

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