News & Events
Up one level4 large smart grid demonstrators will be installed in Europe until 2017
European energy project, UPGRID, features INESC TEC as partner
INESC TEC participates in 2016 Green Business Week
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.
Member of the Board of INESC TEC appointed IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
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.
INESC TEC develops innovative algorithms for wind power forecasting in Spain
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.
INESC TEC proposes energy management using computational intelligence
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.
INESC TEC researchers awarded by REN
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.
INESC TEC develops solar power forecasting system for distribution networks
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).
INESC TEC organises meeting on European Project SENSIBLE
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.
INESC TEC develops unique solar power forecasting system
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.
INESC TEC leads European energy project as part of the H2020
Until 2017, all homes will benefit from an intelligent metering technology that will allow significant energy savings.
INESC TEC participates in Green Business Week 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.