Matej Pečjak, M.EE.

Researcher, PhD candidate

Matej Pečjak obtained his bachelor’s degree in Physics in 2015 at the Faculty for Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. Three years later he finished his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, with the emphasis on electrical power engineering, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana. Before joining the Laboratory for Energy Policy, he worked at one of the leading Slovenian companies in the field of electricity trading, as a power market analyst.

He is also a PhD candidate, and the topic of his PhD is related to optimal utilization of flexibility in distribution power systems.

He excelled in power network simulations, maintenance and development of forecasting models, also as part of several ongoing and concluded projects within the laboratory, especially in designing the MARKETFLEX product within the project X-FLEX and Wholesale and Ancillary Market toolset in the CROSSBOW project.

He has also taken the leading role in some industrial projects related to the regulation of the relationships between power market participants active in the field of flexibility utilization, and in consulting various companies on increasing their energy self-sufficiency and the use of RES produced energy and battery energy storage systems. Currently, he is active in the STREAM project.