On 1 October, DTU Management Engineering welcomed Frits Møller Andersen as professor in Applied Econometrics and Energy Demand Modelling.
Planning the future energy system requires evaluations of future energy demand. Applying econometrics to analyses past developments reveals behavioural patterns that may be used to model and forecast energy demand. Among other research activities Frits has been involved in the development of the EMMA-model used for official projections and analyses of energy demand by the Danish Energy Agency and Energinet.dk. Frits has also analysed electricity demand with an hourly resolution and developed methods to forecast the profile of hourly electricity consumption both at a national level and in local areas. Another application of econometrics has been analyses of waste generation and the development of the Frida model used by the Danish Environmental Agency.
Who is Frits Møller Andersen
Frits Møller Andersen holds a master in economics from the University of Aarhus (1980) and has been employed as scientist/senior scientist at Energy Systems Analysis, Risø National Laboratory (1980-1992), Senior scientist at Department of Policy Analysis the National Environmental Research Institute(1992-1997) and as Head of Research Program at Energy Systems Analysis, DTU Management Engineering (1997-2013). His research include macro-econometric modelling, econometric modelling and analysis of energy demand and waste generation. He has been project director for an EU-Pre-Accession project for the Lithuanian Ministry of Economy, and is at present heading the DSF-project ENSYMORA, WP-leader in the DSF-project TopWaste, and leading the maintenance and further development of the EMMA-model. He is member of the board of the Danish Energy Economic Society, Member of the advisory council on energy savings for the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Buildings (Energisparerådet) and member of the Danish Econometric Society.