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Following the establishment of the Laboratory of Microgeneration and Electric Vehicles, INESC TEC will be joining the DERlab - European Distributed Energy Resources Laboratories, an association that gathers the most important laboratories and research institutes in the areas of distributed energy resources. INESC TEC is the first Portuguese institution to be part of this network.
07th May 2013
Last March, Vladimiro Miranda, director of INESC Porto (the entity coordinating the INESC TEC Associate Laboratory), was elected to receive the IEEE Power & Energy Society Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award.
07th May 2013
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
João Peças Lopes, senior scientist in the Power and Energy Unit and director of INESC Porto, edited the book Electric Vehicle Integration into Modern Power Networks, together with Rodrigo Garcia Valle of the Technical University of Denmark.
01st February 2013
In 2012, BIP featured several (good) news about researchers awarded for their work in different components. Literary awards, Best Papers Awards, winning projects and other distinctions, they all illustrate the research potential of this Associate Laboratory. The BIP team made a list of last year’s awards and we came up with a staggering number of 31 awards received by our collaborators. It is safe to say that excellence lives at INESC TEC!
24th January 2013
On 30 November, INESC TEC presented the preliminary results obtained following the contract signed between INESC Porto (the coordinating entity of INESC TEC) and the EDP Distribuição (Portuguese electricity utility) in April this year. The results were presented in a workshop which took place in Guimarães. The event was attended by about 60 senior managers at the EDP Distribuição, as well as two members of the Board of Directors.
02nd January 2013
The European project TWENTIES and the national project InovGrid (led by the EDP Distribution), which include the participation of INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE), were recently distinguished by the European Electricity Grid Initiative (EEGI).
30th November 2012
INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE) has recently concluded a study for the integration of the Alto da Coutada wind park (located between the municipalities of Valpaços and Vila Pouca de Aguiar) in the Portuguese Distribution Grid (Rede Nacional de Transporte – RNT).
01st October 2012
INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE) has recently started providing consulting services to IBERWIND, which specialises in promoting, developing and exploring renewable energy projects, namely related to wind parks.
28th September 2012
The Brazilian company Tractebel Energia (of the GDF Suez group) has requested INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit to provide advanced training services on Microgeneration and Microgrids. This traning activity took place between 10 and 13 de July.
02nd August 2012
On 2 and 3 July, INESC TEC hosted the second technical meeting of the European project "CitInES - Design of a decision-support tool for sustainable, reliable and cost-effective energy Strategies in cities and industrial complexes," in which INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE) is involved. The aim with this project is to design tools that will support the implementation of sustainable and efficient energy strategies in cities and large industrial complexes.
27th July 2012
INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE) is now part of two consortiums which were formed for the EC calls in the smarts grids area. The project proposals associated to each project were approved and the negotiation stage with the European Commission started on 22 June.
17th July 2012