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INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE) has won the first three places in four parameters as part of an international exercise to compare wind power forecasting models.
19th January 2014
INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE), represented by the researcher Nuno Fidalgo, participated in the kick-off meeting of the European project ELECTRA (European Liaison on Electricity grid Committed Towards long-term Research Activities), which took place on 18 and 19 December in Milan, at the facilities of the Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE).
14th January 2014
Diogo Varajão, researcher at INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE), received an award from the ABB Portugal, a company that develops power and automation technology. The researcher received the 2013 ABB Award for his MSc dissertation, titled "Carregador Bidirecional para Veículos Elétricos Baseado em Andar de Conversão Matricial" (Bidirectional Charger for Electric Vehicles Based on a Matrix Converter), for which he received the highest score (20 out of 20).
04th December 2013
On 1 September, INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE) kicked off a new European project where the goal is to develop tools that will allow the distribution system operators to overcome the challenges inherent to managing power grids with a significant integration of new distributed resources, including microgeneration based on renewable energies and electric vehicles.
27th September 2013
In September, INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE) kicked off the European project HYPERBOLE (HYdropower plants PERformance and flexiBle Operation towards Lean integration of new renewable Energies), a project on renewable energies focusing specifically on hydraulic power.
24th September 2013
On 26 and 27 June, INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE) participated in the third edition of the EnergyIN annual conference. At the event, the Unit presented solutions for intelligent electronic interfaces which can maximise the integration of solar and micro wind generation in power grids.
22nd August 2013
INESC Porto will be organising the next edition of the prestigious conference Intelligent System Applications to Power System (ISAP), which will take place between 20 and 23 September 2015. The ISAP is an international conference on the use of intelligent systems in electric power systems.
20th August 2013
On 5 July, INESC TEC welcomed a delegation from the Institut de Recherce en Energie Solaire et en Energies Nouvelle (IRESEN) from Rabat, Morocco. The visit took place after the IRESEN showed interest in INESC TEC’s areas of expertise. The goal is for both institutions to collaborate in projects in the future.
19th August 2013
On 27 June, INESC TEC welcomed a delegation of the Transmissora Aliança de Energia Elétrica S.A (TAESA), one of the largest power transmission companies in Brazil that creates, operates and maintains transmission assets.
16th August 2013
INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE), represented by João Peças Lopes and Luís Seca, participated in a meeting of project SuSTAINABLE, which took place on 26 June at the facilities of the University of Manchester, UK. The purpose of this meeting was to define the architecture for the project and to assess the main tasks developed within the first three months of the project.
02nd August 2013
Jean Sumaili, researcher at INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE), has received the 2010 award for best PhD dissertation on Power Systems presented at an Italian university. The IEEE PES Italian Chapter 2010 Best PhD Thesis in Power Engineering AWARD was awarded to the dissertation “Current Decomposition-Based Loss Partitioning and Loss Allocation in Distribution Systems”.
31st July 2013
INESC TEC has recently integrated the team of the European project ELECTRA – European Liaison on Electricity grid Committed Towards long-term Research Activities. This is an integrated research project (IRP) on smart grids where the main goal is to strengthen the EERA Joint Programme on Smart Grids. The project duration is 48 months.
13th May 2013