BEEBOP LABS
We build learned, physics-grounded models of energy systems, and study how to make millions of decisions a second, under uncertainty, on the real grid.
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RMSE Day-ahead
98%
Dispatch reliability
3,000+
CITATIONS
200K+
Assets contracted
The Problem
The grid is becoming a decision problem.
Energy is the most important problem of our time. Food, water, security and computation all depend on solving it. The flexible capacity to solve it is already installed at the edge of the grid. Using it means making millions of decisions a second, under uncertainty, across markets, within physical limits.
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Sequential decision making
Open challenge: scaling. the unsolved problem at the heart of the field. Harnessing ever-larger pools of assets while complexity grows super-linearly.
Multi asset and multi market optimisation
Open challenge: scaling. the unsolved problem at the heart of the field. Harnessing ever-larger pools of assets while complexity grows super-linearly.
Data Center energy management
Open challenge: scaling. the unsolved problem at the heart of the field. Harnessing ever-larger pools of assets while complexity grows super-linearly.
rESEARCH
Research Threads
Our research starts with problems from the field, pursued together with an international network of leading institutes and a working academic lab. These are living threads, not finished features. Some will reach the grid. All of them teach us how energy systems actually behave.
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T01
World models for energy
learned, physics-grounded models of how energy systems behave, from a household to a fleet to a market. They capture the underlying dynamics, not just patterns, so they generalise across hardware, geographies and market regimes. The same family of model-based planning that produced the frontier results in game-playing and autonomous systems, applied to the grid.
T02
Predictive asset detection.
trading and control where the world is stochastic and the model is not linear. Reinforcement learning, probabilistic forecasting and mathematical programming, combined with expert domain knowledge.
T03
Cross-asset and cross-market optimisation
co-optimising heterogeneous assets across multiple market products through a single compact representation. (Project ACCORD in the UK, EMUFlex in Belgium - note both are unconfirmed)
T04
Data-centre energy management
the fastest-growing load on the grid is changing how the grid operates. Data centres can be coupled with distributed capacity to offset local congestion, and they themselves are transitioning from grid burdens to assets.
T05
Sequential decision-making under uncertainty
trading and control where the world is stochastic and the model is not linear. Reinforcement learning, probabilistic forecasting and mathematical programming, combined with expert domain knowledge.
T06
Standardising energy software infrastructure
OpenConnect, Market Coupling, providing connectivity abstraction, Market Design (tariff designer), (Engie FlexHub project - tbd)
Research infrastructure
Frontier research needs standard rails. Alongside the threads above, we build shared infrastructure the field is missing: connectivity abstraction across device makers, interfaces that couple assets to markets, and tools for tariff and market design. Engineering in service of the science.
Selected work
Published, cited, in use
Our research starts with problems from the field, pursued together with an international network of leading institutes and a working academic lab. These are living threads, not finished features. Some will reach the grid. All of them teach us how energy systems actually behave.
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Physics informed neural networks for control oriented thermal modeling of buildings
Gokhale G., Claessens B., Develder C. · Applied Energy · 2022
Arxiv
The Bench
The people behind the models
This team has scaled flexibility platforms from zero to millions of assets, twice. Backgrounds span Tesla, Palantir, Centrica, Goldman Sachs and Bain.
10+
Phds in AI, energy systems and optimisation
3000+
Academic Citations
15+
Years Operating GW-Scale Flexibility
2
VPP Exits
#1
Ranked VPP Technology Globally by Guidehouse
4
Continents of GW-scale operations
Chief product officer
Bert Claessens
3,000+ citations in physics-informed AI for power systems. Fifteen years of published research, in production.
Title
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trading and control where the world is stochastic and the model is not linear. Reinforcement learning, probabilistic forecasting and mathematical programming, combined with expert domain knowledge.
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Name Nameson
OpenConnect, Market Coupling, providing connectivity abstraction, Market Design (tariff designer), (Engie FlexHub project - tbd)
An international research network anchored by a working academic lab. Industry-led problems, peer-reviewed answers.
The Bench
The people behind the models
If they read like your problems too, come and help us.
Join the team
We hire researchers and engineers who want their work on the grid, not just on arXiv. No portal, no cover letters. Tell us what you've built.
Research collaboration
For labs, institutes and industry teams working on adjacent problems.