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The kick-off meeting of European project InteGrid took place on 12 and 13 January, in Lisbon. The project is coordinated by EDP Distribuição and has been approved by the European Commission, as part of the European programme Horizon 2020, with a budget of 15 million Euros and a duration of 42 months.
20th January 2017
INESC TEC, represented by its Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES), has been participating since September 2013 in project evolvDSO - Development of Methodologies and Tools for New and Evolving DSO Roles for Efficient DRES Integration in Distribution Networks.
02nd January 2017
INESC TEC, together with EDP Distribuição, Withus - Inovação e Tecnologia and NOS, is conducting a national survey in order to understand the country’s knowledge of smart grids.
01st December 2016
João Abel Peças Lopes, member of the Board of INESC TEC and full professor at FEUP, has been appointed member of the Power System Dynamic Performance Committee (PSDP) of the IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
09th November 2016
One of the best ways of obtaining larger rates of renewable energy integration in the power grid is investing in microgrids and energy storage. Microgrids can autonomously supply energy to remote regions, whether they are connected to the main grid or not.
02nd August 2016
In June, INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) started an R&D consulting project on wind power forecasting for EDP Renováveis.
01st July 2016
Project REStable (Improvement of Renewables-based System Services Through Better Interaction of European Control Zones), which features INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES), received the Franco-German Innovation Award, promoted by Dena (Germany’s Energy Agency), together with the Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie (ADEME, France) and the German-French Office for Renewable Energies (DFBEE).
01st July 2016
INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) has organised the training session “Risk Management in Power Systems: from Theory to Practice”, which took place between 15 and 17 June at INESC TEC as part of the EES-UETP (Electric Energy Systems – University Enterprise Training Program) consortium.
28th June 2016
The project, which started in January 2012, has a total budget of 19.4M, €13.2M of which funded by the European Union.
31st May 2016
Project SuSTAINABLE (Smart distribution system operation for maximizing the integration of renewable generation), which began in January 2013, has come to an end. The goal with this project was to develop advanced algorithms and features to support the operation of the distribution network in order to maximise the integration of renewable energies in a safe and sustainable way. The closing event took place on 30 and 31 March in Lisbon and Évora, respectively.
31st March 2016
European energy project, UPGRID, features INESC TEC as partner
03rd March 2016
INESC TEC will participate in the 2016 Green Business Week 2016 – National Week for Green Growth, which takes place between 1 and 3 March 2016 at the Lisbon Congress Centre.
29th February 2016