Hongyu Zhang
About
Dr Hongyu Zhang has a PhD in operational research from NTNU, an MSc in operational research with data science from the University of Edinburgh, and a BSc in mathematics and applied mathematics from Huaqiao University. His expertise is operational research in the energy industry.
Research activities (2023 - 2024):
- Energy system planning with hydrogen integration: NordicH2ubs (lead WP4 energy system modelling)
- Energy system modelling, optimisation and planning tools: iDesignRES
- Power Markets and digitalisation: PowerDig
Please check his personal website for more details.
Publications
2025
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Quinton, Finley Alexander;
Myhr, Per Arne Sevle;
Barani, Mostafa;
Crespo del Granado, Pedro Andres;
Zhang, Hongyu.
(2025)
Quantum annealing applications, challenges and limitations for optimisation problems compared to classical solvers.
Scientific Reports
Academic article
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Wang, Shengshi;
Fang, Jiakun;
Wu, Jianzhong;
Ai, Xiaomeng;
Cui, Shichang;
Zhou, Yue.
(2025)
Learning-based spatially-cascaded distributed coordination of shared transmission systems for renewable fuels and refined oil with quasi-optimality preservation under uncertainty.
Applied Energy
Academic article
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Zhang, Hongyu;
Grossmann, Ignacio E.;
McKinnon, Ken;
Knudsen, Brage Rugstad;
Nava, Rodrigo Garcia;
Tomasgard, Asgeir.
(2025)
Integrated investment, retrofit and abandonment energy system planning with multi-timescale uncertainty using stabilised adaptive Benders decomposition.
European Journal of Operational Research
Academic article
2024
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Zhang, Hongyu;
Mazzi, Nicolò;
McKinnon, Ken;
Nava, Rodrigo Garcia;
Tomasgard, Asgeir.
(2024)
A stabilised Benders decomposition with adaptive oracles for large-scale stochastic programming with short-term and long-term uncertainty.
Computers & Operations Research
Academic article
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Zhang, Hongyu;
Grossmann, Ignacio E.;
Tomasgard, Asgeir.
(2024)
Decomposition methods for multi-horizon stochastic programming.
Computational Management Science
Academic article
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Predel, Johannes Norbert;
Xiong, Bobby Yuxiang;
Crespo del Granado, Pedro Andres;
Egging-Bratseth, Ruud;
Zhang, Hongyu.
(2024)
Congestion Management Based on Power-to-Gas – Opportunities and Challenges in European Electricity Markets.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2023
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Durakovic, Goran;
Zhang, Hongyu;
Knudsen, Brage Rugstad;
Tomasgard, Asgeir;
Crespo del Granado, Pedro Andres.
(2023)
Decarbonizing the European energy system in the absence of Russian gas: Hydrogen uptake and carbon capture developments in the power, heat and industry sectors.
Journal of Cleaner Production
Academic article
2022
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Zhang, Hongyu;
Tomasgard, Asgeir;
Knudsen, Brage Rugstad;
Grossmann, Ignacio E..
(2022)
Offshore Energy Hubs in the Decarbonisation of the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Zhang, Hongyu;
Tomasgard, Asgeir;
Knudsen, Brage Rugstad;
Svendsen, Harald Georg;
Bakker, Steffen J.;
Grossmann, Ignacio E..
(2022)
Modelling and analysis of offshore energy hubs.
Energy
Academic article
2021
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Zhang, Hongyu.
(2021)
Offshore energy hubs: a useful tool to decarbonise the Norwegian continental shelf’s energy system.
#SINTEFblog
Popular scientific article
Journal publications
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Quinton, Finley Alexander;
Myhr, Per Arne Sevle;
Barani, Mostafa;
Crespo del Granado, Pedro Andres;
Zhang, Hongyu.
(2025)
Quantum annealing applications, challenges and limitations for optimisation problems compared to classical solvers.
Scientific Reports
Academic article
-
Wang, Shengshi;
Fang, Jiakun;
Wu, Jianzhong;
Ai, Xiaomeng;
Cui, Shichang;
Zhou, Yue.
(2025)
Learning-based spatially-cascaded distributed coordination of shared transmission systems for renewable fuels and refined oil with quasi-optimality preservation under uncertainty.
Applied Energy
Academic article
-
Zhang, Hongyu;
Grossmann, Ignacio E.;
McKinnon, Ken;
Knudsen, Brage Rugstad;
Nava, Rodrigo Garcia;
Tomasgard, Asgeir.
(2025)
Integrated investment, retrofit and abandonment energy system planning with multi-timescale uncertainty using stabilised adaptive Benders decomposition.
European Journal of Operational Research
Academic article
-
Zhang, Hongyu;
Mazzi, Nicolò;
McKinnon, Ken;
Nava, Rodrigo Garcia;
Tomasgard, Asgeir.
(2024)
A stabilised Benders decomposition with adaptive oracles for large-scale stochastic programming with short-term and long-term uncertainty.
Computers & Operations Research
Academic article
-
Zhang, Hongyu;
Grossmann, Ignacio E.;
Tomasgard, Asgeir.
(2024)
Decomposition methods for multi-horizon stochastic programming.
Computational Management Science
Academic article
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Durakovic, Goran;
Zhang, Hongyu;
Knudsen, Brage Rugstad;
Tomasgard, Asgeir;
Crespo del Granado, Pedro Andres.
(2023)
Decarbonizing the European energy system in the absence of Russian gas: Hydrogen uptake and carbon capture developments in the power, heat and industry sectors.
Journal of Cleaner Production
Academic article
-
Zhang, Hongyu;
Tomasgard, Asgeir;
Knudsen, Brage Rugstad;
Svendsen, Harald Georg;
Bakker, Steffen J.;
Grossmann, Ignacio E..
(2022)
Modelling and analysis of offshore energy hubs.
Energy
Academic article
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Zhang, Hongyu.
(2021)
Offshore energy hubs: a useful tool to decarbonise the Norwegian continental shelf’s energy system.
#SINTEFblog
Popular scientific article
Part of book/report
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Predel, Johannes Norbert;
Xiong, Bobby Yuxiang;
Crespo del Granado, Pedro Andres;
Egging-Bratseth, Ruud;
Zhang, Hongyu.
(2024)
Congestion Management Based on Power-to-Gas – Opportunities and Challenges in European Electricity Markets.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Zhang, Hongyu;
Tomasgard, Asgeir;
Knudsen, Brage Rugstad;
Grossmann, Ignacio E..
(2022)
Offshore Energy Hubs in the Decarbonisation of the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Outreach
2024
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Academic lecturePredel, Johannes; Xiong, Bobby; Del Granado, Pedro Crespo; Egging-Bratseth, Ruud; Zhang, Hongyu. (2024) Congestion management based on Power-to-Gas – Opportunities and challenges in European electricity markets. 20th International Conference on the European Energy Market 2024-06-10 - 2024-06-12
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu; Grossmann, Ignacio E.; Knudsen, Brage Rugstad; McKinnon, Ken; Nava, Rodrigo Garcia; Tomasgard, Asgeir. (2024) Modelling and analysis of multi-timescale uncertainty in energy system planning. European Conference on Stochastic Optimization and Computational Management Science (ECSO-CMS 2024) 2024-07-04 - 2024-07-05
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu; Grossmann, Ignacio E.; Knudsen, Brage Rugstad; McKinnon, Ken; Nava, Rodrigo Garcia; Tomasgard, Asgeir. (2024) Integrated energy system planning under short-term and long-term uncertainty: Modelling and algorithms. 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming 2024-07-21 - 2024-07-26
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PosterZhang, Hongyu; Del Granado, Pedro Crespo; Lædre, Sigrid. (2024) Nordic Hydrogen Hubs – Roadmaps Towards 2030 and 2040 (NordicH2ubs). NETI NTNU Energy Transition Week 2024 , Trondheim 2024-03-12 - 2024-03-15
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu. (2024) Modelling and analysis of multi-timescale uncertainty in energy system planning. Carnegi Mellon University Center for Advanced Process Decision-making seminar 2024-10-18 - 2024-10-18
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu. (2024) Integrated energy system planning: uncertainty, modelling, and algorithms. NordNet PhD autumn school 2024-10-21 - 2024-10-25
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu; Grossmann, Ignacio E.; Knudsen, Brage Rugstad; Nava, Rodrigo Garcia; Tomasgard, Asgeir. (2024) Integrated energy system planning under multi-timescale uncertainty: Modelling and algorithms. INFORMS Annual Meeting 202 2024-10-20 - 2024-10-23
2023
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu; Grossmann, Ignacio E.; Knudsen, Brage Rugstad; McKinnon, Ken; Nava, Rodrigo Garcia; Tomasgard, Asgeir. (2023) Integrated investment, retrofit and abandonment planning of energy systems with short-term and long-term uncertainty using enhanced Benders decomposition. The stochastic programming society 2023 XVI International Conference Stochastic Programming , Davis, California 2023-07-24 - 2023-07-28
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu. (2023) Investment planning under uncertainty of energy systems: modelling and algorithms. NTNU Energy Transition Initiative, SINTEF Energy Research NTNU Energy Systems Seminar 2023-03-31 - 2023-03-31
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu. (2023) Investment planning under uncertainty of energy systems: modelling and algorithms. School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Group in Optimisation Seminar 2023-03-29 - 2023-03-29
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu. (2023) Investment planning under uncertainty of energy systems: modelling and algorithms. Department of Computing, Imperial College London Computational Optimisation Group Seminar 2023-03-24 - 2023-03-24
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu. (2023) The European energy transition. NTNU, UiB, UiO, NMBU UiT and UiA. NorRen summer school 2023 2023-08-21 - 2023-08-25
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu. (2023) Oil and gas infrastructure in the European energy transition . LowEmission Research Centre LowEmission research centre webinar series 2023-10-17 - 2023-10-17
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu. (2023) Investment planning under uncertainty of energy systems: modelling and algorithms. The Ohio State University Department of Integrated Systems Engineering seminar 2023-05-15 - 2023-05-15
2022
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu; Mazzi, Nicolò; McKinnon, Ken; Nava, Rodrigo Garcia; Tomasgard, Asgeir. (2022) A stabilised Benders decomposition with adaptive oracles applied to investment planning of multi-region power systems with short-term and long-term uncertainty. INFORMS Annual Meeting 2022 , Indianapolis 2022-10-16 - 2022-10-19
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu. (2022) Modelling and analysis of offshore energy hubs. NTNU Energy Transition Initiative (NETI), SINTEF Energy NTNU Energy Systems Seminar , Trondheim 2022-03-25 - 2022-03-25
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu; Tomasgard, Asgeir; McKinnon, Ken; Mazzi, Nicolò; Nava, Rodrigo Garcia. (2022) Investment planning of multi-region power systems with uncertainty using stabilised Benders decomposition with adaptive oracles. EURO Working Group on Stochastic Optimization (EWGSO) European Conference on Stochastic Optimization & Computational Management Science Conference 2022 (ECSO-CMS 2022) , Venice 2022-06-29 - 2022-07-01
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu; Tomasgard, Asgeir; Knudsen, Brage Rugstad; Grossmann, Ignacio E.. (2022) Offshore energy hubs in the decarbonisation of the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME 41st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2022) , Hamburg 2022-06-05 - 2022-06-10
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu. (2022) Offshore energy hubs in the decarbonisation of the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The LowEmission Centre The LowEmission Centre Spring 2022 Webinar Series , Trondheim 2022-06-23 - 2022-06-23
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Programme participationZhang, Hongyu. (2022) Accelerating Transition at NTNU Energy Transition Conference 2022. Trondheim Trondheim [Internet] 2022-03-30
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu; Tomasgard, Asgeir; Knudsen, Brage Rugstad; Grossmann, Ignacio E.. (2022) The Impact of Decarbonising Offshore Fields on Investment Planning of the North Sea Energy System. 43rd IAEE International Conference , Tokyo 2022-07-31 - 2022-08-04
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu; McKinnon, Ken; Nava, Rodrigo Garcia; Mazzi, Nicolò; Tomasgard, Asgeir. (2022) Stabilised Benders decomposition with adaptive oracles. The TACEMM (Trans-Atlantic cooperation on energy market models) winter school organising committee TACEMM winter school/workshop 2022 , Oppdal, Norway 2022-02-28 - 2022-03-04
2021
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu. (2021) Modelling and analysis of offshore energy hubs. IØT, NTNU Bedøk lunch seminar , Trondheim 2021-11-02 - 2021-11-02
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Academic lectureZhang, Hongyu; Tomasgard, Asgeir; Knudsen, Brage Rugstad; Svendsen, Harald Georg; Bakker, Steffen J.. (2021) Decarbonised offshore energy hubs: modelling, optimisation and sensitivity analysis. The Norwegian Operations Research Society NORS Annual Conference 2021 , Bergen 2021-11-17 - 2021-11-18