Francisco Fernandes is a Researcher at INESC TEC – CPES (Center for Power and Energy Systems) who has been involved in several RES integration projects, including grid code compliance, frequency and transient stability studies in island power systems and modelling of different Power Systems (Dynamic and Steady-State). He completed his Integrated Master’s in Electrical and Computers Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 2021 with a master’s thesis entitled “Assessment of frequency stability behaviour regarding inertia reduction due to high renewable integration in the Iberian system”, which won the APREN award 2021 and placed 3rd in the REN award 2022. His research interests include power system stability and control and computational intelligence applied to energy systems.

André Oliveira,  Researcher at INESC TEC

André Oliveira received his Masters’ degree in Electrotechnical and Computers Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in 2019. Has joined the Centre for Power and Energy Systems of INESC TEC ever since, mainly focusing its work on wholesale electricity markets, and more precisely, on the use of CEVESA MIBEL market simulator, in coordination with Comillas Pontifical University, in Madrid. Currently, he is enrolled in the Doctoral Program in Sustainable Energy Systems (MIT Portugal) at FEUP, being most of its research focused on electricity markets.

João Peças Lopes, Associate Diretor and Coordinator of the TEC4Energy 

João A. Peças Lopes is Full Professor at Porto University (FEUP) where he teaches in the graduation and post graduation areas and is Diretor of the Sustainable Energy Systems PhD program. He is presently Associate Diretor and Coordinator of the TEC4Energy initiave at INESC TEC, one of the largest R&D interface institutions of the Unversity of Porto. He is also member of the accompanying national committee of the Portuguese recovery and resilience plan. His main domains of research are related with large scale integration of renewable power sources, power system dynamics, storage systems and security of supply, microgeneration and microgrids, smartmetering, electric vehicle grid integration and exploitation of P2P using hydrogen. He is co-editor and co-author of the book “Electric Vehicle Integration into Modern Power Networks” edited by Springer. He is a Fellow from IEEE. He was Adjoint Professor of the Iowa State University and Visiting Professor of University Pontificia Comillas in Madrid. He has been ivolved in studies related with the reduction of inertia in the Iberian power system up 2040 and in the island systems of the Archipelagos of Madeira, Azores and Cabo Verde. Studies have involved the characterization the impacts on the systems like, increase in RoCoF and nadires for frequency stability as well as other stability phenomena, and involved the study of the use of synchronous condensers, provision of inertia from double fed induction machines used as pumps and use of grid forming converters (sizing and location)