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The goal was achieved: four smart grids demonstrators were set in Europe until 2017: Bilbao (Spain), Lisbon (Portugal), Åmål (Sweden) and Gdynia (Poland). Three years later, the European project UPGRID ended and the final event was held on 21 February at Iberdrola headquarters in Madrid.
14th March 2018
The European project SmartGuide (Defining Planning and Operation Guidelines for European Smart Distribution Systems), presented on the 25th and 26th of January the results to the development of tools to plan and operate smart electric networks.
31st January 2018
In the scope of the work developed at the Centre for Power and Energy (CPES) of INESC TEC, João Peças Lopes, Administrator of INESC TEC and Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP), Carlos Moreira, also Professor at FEUP, and André Madureira, all researchers at CPES, are the authors of the article “Defining control strategies for MicroGrids islanded operation”, available at IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Xplore Digtal Library.
29th January 2018
The new European project in the area of energy systems is called FEEdBACK (Fostering Energy Efficiency and BehAvioural Change through ICT) and is led by INESC TEC. The kick-off meeting was held on 2 and 3 November in the city of Porto.
18th December 2017
INESC TEC’s most recent project is called EU-SysFlex and it started in November.
15th December 2017
Bruna Tavares, researcher at the Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) of INESC TEC, has won the oldest existing Portuguese science award. This ceremony took place on the afternoon of 17 November at the Hotel Ritz, in Lisbon.
14th December 2017
INESC TEC hosted the "InteGrid Day" on the afternoon of 23 November at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.
06th December 2017
INESC TEC participated in the Porto Water Innovation Week (PWIW), an initiative that transformed the city of Porto into the European capital of water and innovation, which took place between the 24th and the 30th of September at the Alfândega Porto Congress Centre.
06th October 2017
Espinho was the location chosen by INESC TEC to hold the 10th Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control Symposium – IREP’2017, devoted to the theme “The Power System of the Future: Global Dynamics arising from Distributed Actions”, which took place between the 27th of August and the 1st of September.
28th September 2017
Leonel Carvalho, researcher at the Centre for Power and Energy (CPES) of INESC TEC, and Vladimiro Miranda, member of INESC TEC’s board, won once more an international competition organised by the biggest professional association in the world, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
28th July 2017
To develop, integrate and test new technologies in the field of energy and to apply them in analysis and consequent change of behaviours, these are the main goals of FEEdBACk – Fostering Energy Efficiency and BehAvioural Change through ICT, the new approved European project in the Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) of INESC TEC.
20th June 2017
The INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems started this month with the project MedTSO. The project proposes to evaluate the viability and the technical impact of the construction of several electric connections between the south of Europe and the Norte of Africa.
24th May 2017