Olivier Bahn

Member, GERAD

Director, HEC Montréal

olivier.bahn@hec.ca

Phone: 514 340-6053 x6041

Phone: 514 340-6503

Fax: 514 340-5665

Office 4461

Other titles and affiliations

Full Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal

Research Axes

Axis 2: Decision support made in complex systems
Axis 3: Decision support made under uncertainty

Research Applications

Energy, environment and natural resources

Publications

Feb 2022

Affine Decision Rule Approximation to Address Demand Response Uncertainty in Smart Grids’ Capacity Planning

Sajad Aliakbari Sani, Olivier Bahn, and Erick Delage

To appear in: European Journal of Operational Research, 2022 BibTeX reference

Jan 2022

The contribution of forest-based bioenergy in achieving deep decarbonization: Insights for Quebec (Canada) using a TIMES approach

Hamed Kouchaki-Penchah, Olivier Bahn, Kathleen Vaillancourt, and Annie Levasseur

Energy Conversion and Management, 252, Paper no: 115081, 2022 BibTeX reference

Dec 2021

Robust Enough? Exploring Temperature-Constrained Energy Transition Pathways under Climate Uncertainty

Claire Nicolas, Stéphane Tchung-Ming, Olivier Bahn, and Erick Delage

Energies, 14(24), Paper no: 8595, 2021 BibTeX reference

47 publications

News

Doctoral thesis defence of Sajad Aliakbari Sani, March 2, 2022

Feb 24, 2022

Wednesday March 02, 2022 at 9h00

Thesis title: A Robust Integration of Demand Response into Smart Grid's Capacity Expansion Planning: Considering the Uncertainty of Electric Vehicle's Charging Behavior

A special issue for the 40th of GERAD in Environmental Modeling & Assessment

Feb 14, 2022

Michèle Breton and Olivier Bahn published a special issue to celebrate the 40th anniversary of GERAD in Environmental Modeling & Assessment, Volume 26, Number 6, December 2021.

Modelling the reduction of greenhouse gases

Jan 13, 2021

GERAD researchers have developed models to identify the most economically efficient GHG reduction scenarios and the optimal time to implement them.

Read the article.

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Events

May 4, 202211:00 AM — 12:00 PM

Analyse de données physiologiques appliquée en UX

“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Marc Fredette – Full Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal

Online meeting

Apr 20, 202211:00 AM — 12:00 PM

Decision Rule-Based Methods for Multistage Adaptive Optimization

“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Said Salim Rahal – HEC Montréal

Online meeting

Apr 6, 202211:00 AM — 12:00 PM

5G, 3 challenges

“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
Brunilde Sansò – Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal

Online meeting

49 activities

Cahiers du GERAD

Dec 2021

G-2021-66
The contribution of forest-based bioenergy in achieving deep decarbonization: Insights for Quebec (Canada) using a TIMES approach

Hamed Kouchaki-Penchah, Olivier Bahn, Kathleen Vaillancourt, and Annie Levasseur

This study assesses the contribution of various forest-based bioenergy technologies when transitioning to a low carbon economy. A detailed modeling of differ...

BibTeX reference

Aug 2021

G-2021-44
Robust integration of electric vehicles charging load in smart grids capacity expansion planning

Sajad Aliakbari Sani, Olivier Bahn, Erick Delage, and Rinel Foguen Tchuendom

Battery charging of electric vehicles (EVs) needs to be properly coordinated by electricity producers to maintain the network reliability. In this paper, we ...

BibTeX reference

Nov 2020

G-2020-62
Affine decision rule approximation to immunize against demand response uncertainty in smart grids' capacity planning

Sajad Aliakbari Sani, Olivier Bahn, and Erick Delage

Generation expansion planning (GEP) is a classical problem that determines an optimal investment plan for existing and future electricity generation technolo...

BibTeX reference

42 Papers