Related publications

This page lists research papers and reports that use PowNet 2.0 (or its predecessor). Please let us know if you would like to add your work to this list.

Research papers

• Bunnak, P., Coniglio, S., & Galelli, S. (2025). Bridging theory and practice: Efficiently solving the unit commitment problem in production cost models. Energy, 322, 135454.

Predecessor to PowNet 2.0

• Arnold, W., Giuliani, M., & Castelletti, A. (2024). Floating photovoltaics may reduce the risk of hydro-dominated energy development in Africa. Nature Energy, 9(5), 602-611.

• Koh, R., & Galelli, S. (2024). Evaluating streamflow forecasts in hydro‐dominated power systems—When and why they matter. Water Resources Research, 60(3), e2023WR035825.

• Koh, R., & Galelli, S. (2023). Evaluating Streamflow Forecasts in Hydro-Dominated Power Systems–When and Why They Matter. Authorea Preprints.

• Koh, R., Kern, J., & Galelli, S. (2022). Hard-coupling water and power system models increases the complementarity of renewable energy sources. Applied Energy, 321, 119386.

• Galelli, S., Dang, T. D., Ng, J. Y., Chowdhury, A. K., & Arias, M. E. (2022). Opportunities to curb hydrological alterations via dam re-operation in the Mekong. Nature Sustainability, 5(12), 1058-1069.

• Chowdhury, A. K., Dang, T. D., Nguyen, H. T., Koh, R., & Galelli, S. (2021). The Greater Mekong’s climate‐water‐energy nexus: How ENSO‐triggered regional droughts affect power supply and CO2 emissions. Earth’s Future, 9(3), e2020EF001814.

• Chowdhury, A. K., Dang, T. D., Bagchi, A., & Galelli, S. (2020). Expected benefits of Laos’ hydropower development curbed by hydroclimatic variability and limited transmission capacity: Opportunities to reform. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 146(10), 05020019.

• Chowdhury, A. K., Kern, J., Dang, T. D., & Galelli, S. (2020). PowNet: a network-constrained unit commitment/economic dispatch model for large-scale power systems analysis. Journal of Open Research Software, 8(1).

Conference presentations

• Galelli, S., Eldardiry, H., & Bunnak, P. (2025). Towards real-time operation of interconnected water-energy systems (No. EGU25-7249). Copernicus Meetings.

• Galelli, S., Bunnak, P., Eldardiry, H., & Koh, R. (2025). Evaluating Streamflow Forecasts in Hydro-Dominated Power Systems (No. EGU25-7232). Copernicus Meetings.

• Eldardiry, H., Bunnak, P., Thomsen, G., & Galelli, S. (2024). Orchestrating Hydropower Dispatch Decisions over Wide-Area Synchronous Grids. AGU24.

• Giuliani, M., Castelletti, A., Carlino, A., & Arnold, W. (2024, April). Reconsidering hydropower in the African energy transition. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 7354).

• Leoni, A., Stevanato, N., Carlino, A., Castelletti, A. F., & Giuliani, M. (2024, April). From multi-decadal energy planning to hourly power dispatch: evaluating the reliability of energy projections in the Southern African Power Pool. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 6025).

• Bunnak, P., Dang, T. D., & Galelli, S. (2022, December). Evaluating the Effect of Climate Change on the Power Systems of Mainland Southeast Asia. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. GC14E-01).

• Feng, Z., Bunnak, P., & Galelli, S. (2022, December). Characterizing Malaysia’s Transition into a Liberalized Electricity Market. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. GC51E-02).