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INESC TEC has recently signed a contract with EDA - Electricidade do Açores (electricity provider in the Azores islands) for the provision of specialised technical consultancy services. As part of this contract, INESC TEC will be conducting different studies to find solutions for building pure reversible hydroelectric power plants on the islands of São Miguel and Terceira.
24th February 2016
Vladimiro Miranda, Member of the Board of INESC TEC and Full Professor at FEUP, has been nominated by the IEEE as a Distinguished Lecturer of Power Engineering Society.
19th January 2016
INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) has recently started an R&D consulting project for the Spanish company Meteobit. The goal with this project is to develop new wind forecasting models and to produce a manual of good practices to address this problem.
17th December 2015
Managing energy through computational intelligence, as if it were a brain – is the goal that Portugal wants to achieve and the theme discussed at the ISAP 2015 (International Conference on Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems, Conference and Debate), organised by INESC TEC in the city of Porto, which took place between 11 and 17 September. This was the 18th edition of the forum. The last edition took place in Tokyo.
25th September 2015
João Silva and Rui Pinto, researchers at INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) have won first and second places of the REN’15 Awards for best master’s degrees in energy.
24th September 2015
INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) has recently started a demonstration, for EDP Distribuição, of an innovative solar power forecasting system, as part of the European Project SuSTAINABLE - Smart Distribution System OperaTion for MAximizing the INtegration of RenewABLE Generation (funded by the 7th Framework-Programme).
03rd August 2015
Between 14 and 16 July, INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) organised, together with EDP LABELEC and EDP Distribuição, a meeting on European project SENSIBLE – Storage-Enabled Sustainable Energy for Buildings and Communities, in the area of small scale and distributed storage. The project is funded by the European Commission, as part of Horizon 2020 – Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
29th July 2015
In March, INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) concluded project PREVSol (PREVisão da Produção de Energia Elétrica de Base SOLar), where the goal was to create a solar power forecasting system.
17th April 2015
Until 2017, all homes will benefit from an intelligent metering technology that will allow significant energy savings.
03rd March 2015
On 5 December 2014, INESC TEC signed a letter of intent to cooperate with the AIP Foundation (structure belonging to the Portuguese Industrial Association) in the Green Business Week 2015 - National Week for Green Growth, which will take place between3 and 5 March 2015, at the Centro de Congressos de Lisboa.
19th January 2015
The President of INESC TEC, José Manuel Mendonça, directors João Peças Lopes and Vladimiro Miranda, and the coordinator of the Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES), Manuel Matos, as well as the researcher Carlos Moreira, participated in LABORA 2014, an international forum that took place in Cascais on 16 October.
13th October 2014
In September, INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) started working on a project with REN (Portuguese Electricity Networks) to develop a probabilistic forecasting tool for power generation in special scheme.
05th September 2014