Biography:
Mohamed Abbas Eltahir Elabbas studied Sustainable Energy Technology master’s program at TU Delft. He did his master thesis on regional electricity market design with a focus on Africa. He graduated with Cum Laude and was nominated for the best graduate student in his program. He has an electrical engineering background and worked for one and half year as a system engineering in his home country Sudan. He worked as an intern with IRENA and specialized in long-term energy modelling and geospatial analysis of renewable energy, focusing on Africa. He is currently a full-time Ph.D. student at the Technology Research Institute (IIT) of Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid carrying on with the same topic of regional electricity market design in Africa.
Areas of interest:
Energy economics. Energy planning models. Integration of renewable energies. Regulation of the energy sector.
Experience:
Teaching Assistant, University of Khartoum, 2017
System Engineer, MT Industrial Supply, 2018
Teaching Assistant, Delft University of Technology, 2020
Intern, TenneT TSO Holding B.V, 2020
Intern, IRENA, 2021
Skills:
Institutional analysis, Geospatial analysis (GIS), Python programming, Energy planning and capacity expansion, Optimization and Agent-based modelling.
Current research interests:
Transmission of electricity. Power economics. Operation, planning and regulation of electric power systems
Elabbas, M.A.E., Vries, L.J. de, Correljé, A., African power pools and regional electricity market design: taking stock of regional integration in energy sectors. Energy Research & Social Science. Vol. 105, pp. 103291-1 - 103291-18, November 2023. [Online: September 2023] 
JCR: 6,900 Q1 (2023); - SJR: 2,320 Q1 (2023); Sterl, S., Hussain, B., Miketa, A., Li, Y., Merven, B., Ben Ticha, M.B., Elabbas, M.A.E., Thiery, W., Russo, D., An all-Africa dataset of energy model “supply regions” for solar photovoltaic and wind power. Scientific data. Vol. 9, pp. 664-1 - 664-12, December 2022. [Online: October 2022]
JCR: 9,800 Q1 (2022); 5,800 Q1 (2023) - SJR: 2,410 Q1 (2022); 1,937 Q1 (2023) 
