Tatiana González Grandón
About
I am a mathematician and economist specializing in participatory climate and energy modeling to support decision-making under uncertainty and risk. My work foregrounds spatial dynamics by examining how infrastructures, ecologies, and livelihoods intersect across scales, from rural villages to national planning, and how these geographies shape and are shaped by global climate and energy transitions.
With six years of experience in rural electrification planning, development financing, and water-energy-food nexus projects across Togo, Nigeria, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Niger, I bring an explicitly place-based approach to development practice. My collaborations with organizations such as the United Nations and GIZ have focused on how infrastructure investments and policy decisions are embedded in territorial politics, regional ecologies, and transboundary resource systems.
My research is organized around three interconnected areas.
- I develop participatory climate and energy modelling approaches that broaden the production of knowledge beyond expert communities. By integrating quantitative modelling with qualitative inquiry, collective deliberation, and local forms of knowledge, I explore new ways of understanding uncertainty and supporting collective decision-making.
- I investigate the political economy of infrastructure finance, examining how financial and monetary arrangements shape the infrastructures through which climate and development futures are materialized.
- I engage in action-oriented research with energy communities and community currencies to study how citizens collectively create alternative economic institutions. Focusing on processes of commoning, monetary innovation, and collective ownership, I explore how new forms of economic coordination emerge and how they reshape relationships between energy, value creation, and local development.
Research
Principal Investigator of OPEN4CEC- NTNU
Principal Investigator of SPECTRUM: South’s Pluriverse Electrification for ClimaTe-Resilient rUral CoMmunities
Principal Investigator of Stochastic Quantum Optimization group at NTNU.
Research Lead: PGMO- Sizing and Dispatch of Decentralized Energy Systems with Chance Constraints
Researcher at ENERGICA-Climate and Energy Modelling
Publications
2025
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Barani, Mostafa;
Löffler, Konstantin;
Granado, Pedro Andres Crespo del;
Moskalenko, Nikita;
Panos, Evangelos;
Hoffart, Franziska M..
(2025)
European energy vision 2050 and beyond: Designing scenarios for Europe’s energy transition.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Academic article
2024
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Ouanes, Nesrine;
Grandón, Tatiana Carolina González;
Heitsch, Holger;
Henrion, René.
(2024)
Optimizing the economic dispatch of weakly-connected mini-grids under uncertainty using joint chance constraints.
Annals of Operations Research
Academic article
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Grandón, Tatiana Carolina González;
Schwenzer, J.;
Steens, T.;
Breuing, J..
(2024)
Electricity demand forecasting with hybrid classical statistical and machine learning algorithms: Case study of Ukraine.
Applied Energy
Academic article
Journal publications
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Barani, Mostafa;
Löffler, Konstantin;
Granado, Pedro Andres Crespo del;
Moskalenko, Nikita;
Panos, Evangelos;
Hoffart, Franziska M..
(2025)
European energy vision 2050 and beyond: Designing scenarios for Europe’s energy transition.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Academic article
-
Ouanes, Nesrine;
Grandón, Tatiana Carolina González;
Heitsch, Holger;
Henrion, René.
(2024)
Optimizing the economic dispatch of weakly-connected mini-grids under uncertainty using joint chance constraints.
Annals of Operations Research
Academic article
-
Grandón, Tatiana Carolina González;
Schwenzer, J.;
Steens, T.;
Breuing, J..
(2024)
Electricity demand forecasting with hybrid classical statistical and machine learning algorithms: Case study of Ukraine.
Applied Energy
Academic article
Teaching
Courses
PhD course: Planning Under Uncertainty in energy Markets (IØ8811)