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The Power Systems Unit (USE) and the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) at INESC Porto LA will be taking part in project SIMULESP (Simulador Especialista de Tempo Real Para Apoio A Decisão), in collaboration with Eletropaulo (São Paulo, Brazil).
02nd May 2011
With the help of INESC Porto’s Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG), the Power Systems Unit (USE) coordinated and prepared a proposal for the European Programme NER300, on behalf of the Public Power Corporation (PPC), the largest Greek electricity company.
10th March 2011
In this year, so notoriously marked by the economic crisis, INESC Porto has increased its budget from 10 to 12.5 million Euros. However, this is actually one of the most conservative budgets so far: close to 90% of the predicted income has been contractually guaranteed since the beginning of the year. With his feet firmly on the ground the INESC Porto President admits that despite INESC Porto having practically doubled in size over the last five years, “this does not mean an obsession with records”. José Manuel Mendonça explains that a group effort from all of the collaborators will be necessary to maintain this sustainable growth and he recognises that guaranteeing a high level of quality while growing so rapidly will be an enormous challenge.
10th February 2011
The Power Systems Unit (USE) will begin a project with MARTIFER RENEWABLES to develop and elaborate studies analysing the impact of introducing electricity generation by wind power and solar photovoltaic on various Cape Verde islands.
23rd January 2011
The Power Systems Unit (USE) of INESC Porto has recently concluded the first stage of studies regarding the integration of renewable sources of energy for the islands of Cape Verde.
12th November 2010
In the context of its activity in the European project More MicroGrids, the Power Systems Unit (USE) will participate in the organisation of the international workshop MICROGRIDS – Novel Architectures for Future Power Systems, which will take place in Paris, on 29 January 2010.
25th February 2010
The Power Systems Unit (USE) of INESC Porto is preparing to develop a set of studies on the dynamic behaviour of the electrical systems of the Madeira and Porto Santo islands.
27th December 2009
The Power Systems Unit (USE) has recently handed in the final version of the report of the project "Study on the impact of large renewable deployment on European Electricity Higher Voltage Systems", requested by the Institute for Energy of the Joint Research Centre (JRC-IE) of the European Commission.
26th December 2009
The Power Systems Unit (USE) of INESC Porto will be participating in another collaborative project in the context of the Energy 2009 programme (FP7) entitled TWENTIES (“Transmission system operation with large penetration of Wind and other renewable Electricity sources in Networks by means of innovative Tools and Integrated Energy Solutions”).
03rd November 2009
The Hungarian Energy Authority has announced that a call for applications for the installation of wind production in the country will be launched. The definition of the limits for the wind power to be installed in Hungary was the result of a study that the Power Systems Units (USE) developed for this Energy Authority in 2008.
30th September 2009
Joel Soares and Pedro Almeida, researchers at INESC Porto’s Power Systems Unit (USE) and Ph.D. students of the MIT|Portugal Programme, were the winners, together with Miguel Moreira da Silva (also Ph.D. student of the MIT|Portugal Programme), of best presentation award at an international conference, organised by the Chamber of Commerce of Angra do Heroísmo, Azores.
28th May 2009
The search for the ultimate wind forecasting model got a boost at the end of 2008 when DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) began collaborating with a Portuguese research institute, INESC Porto (Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto) to develop a new platform for making such predictions.
14th May 2009