Andrew Hamann

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About

Andrew Hamann is a Senior Engineer in the Transmission System Planning group at the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) in Austin, Texas. His role is to plan the electrical transmission system owned and operated by LCRA to ensure that it delivers safe, reliable, and affordable electricity. Andrew received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich in 2018. His research formulated real-time and day-ahead optimization programs to plan and operate a hydropower cascade and to coordinate hydro and wind resources, as applied to the Mid-Columbia hydropower system in Washington state. Andrew received the MSc in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014 and the BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012.

Publications during PhD

Hamann, A., & Hug, G. (2016). Integrating variable wind power using a hydropower cascade. Energy Procedia, 87, 108-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.12.339

Hamann, A., Hug, G., & Rosinski, S. (2017). Real-time optimization of the Mid-Columbia hydropower system. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 32(1), 157-165. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2016.2550490

Conferences during PhD

Hamann, A., & Hug, G. (2014). Real-time optimization of a hydropower cascade using a linear modeling approach. 2014 Power Systems Computation Conference. https://doi.org/10.1109/pscc.2014.7038354

Hamann, A., & Hug, G. (2016). Using cascaded hydropower like a battery to firm variable wind generation. 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). https://doi.org/10.1109/pesgm.2016.7741913