INESC TEC provides energy services in the Balkans
Nuno Fidalgo, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE), travelled recently to Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, to provide consulting services on Load Research, in cooperation with the Regulatory and Energy Assistance Project (REAP), an initiative sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
06th March 2013
The aim with this consulting contract is to help energy companies and regulatory bodies in the Balkans conduct studies and develop projects towards the implementation of a liberalised energy market in the future. Nuno Fidalgo was responsible for assessing the evolution of these projects, presenting suggestions to optimise procedures and identifying the fundamental developments for future stages.
It is important to highlight that INESC TEC’s work in the Balkans is not recent. In 2008, INESC Porto (the entity coordinating of INESC TEC) started working on two energy projects as part of the TEMPUS project. The first one, entitled JADES – Joint Advanced Doctoral Degree in Energy Systems, followed a previous work, the CEFES - Cost Effective and Environmentally Friendly Energy Systems, and provided and master’s programme for the Universities of Tuzla (Bosnia), Novi Sad (Serbia) and St. Kiril i Methodius (Macedonia). The second project, entitled SEECEN – South East Europe Continuing Education Network, provided advanced training on electrical power systems to technical staff of companies in this sector, as well as to governmental and regulatory bodies.
More recently, INESC TEC signed
an advanced consulting contract to directly support electrical system operators
and regulatory bodies in Bosnia-Herzegovina in developing consumption profiles
for the operation of the electrical market. The aim was also to define methodologies
that make it possible to quantify the costs associated to different types and
groups of consumers.