Opportunities and challenges for enabling flexibility solutions in electricity systems
ComillasDescripcion del curso
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of flexibility and regulation in the energy sector, covering topics from residential consumers to business models and regulation. It is divided into five main modules. The first module addresses residential consumers and their interaction with grid flexibility. The second module discusses incentives for Small Load Flexibility Providers (SLFPs), detailing the incentive framework and providing practical examples. The third module covers mechanisms for acquiring flexibility, including network tariffs, connection agreements, and local markets. The fourth module focuses on regulation, covering energy communities, aggregators, submetering, and remuneration of Distribution System Operators (DSOs). The final module explores various business models in the energy sector.Lo que aprenderás
- Understand how residential consumers interact with grid flexibility and identify opportunities for enhancing their participation in energy management.
- Learn about the incentive structures for SLFPs, including the components of the incentive framework and practical examples of implementation.
- Gain knowledge on various mechanisms for acquiring flexibility, such as network tariffs, connection agreements, and local markets, and understand their combined use.
- Understand regulatory aspects of the energy sector, including the roles of energy communities, aggregators, submetering, and remuneration of Distribution System Operators (DSOs).
- Explore different business models in the energy sector and understand their application and impact on energy management and distribution.
Instructores
Carmen Valor Martínez
IIT Comillas
Ph.D. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, MBA Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, MSc Business and Community Bath University. Associate Professor in the Business School Universidad Pontificia Comillas. She has been visiting lecturer in severla universities such as University of Bath, Queen Mary University of London, Universidad de DEUSTO, Universidad de Valencia, Universidad de Alcalá and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. She has published more than 100 papers and book chapers in leading journals such as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Business Ethics, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Cleaner Production, inter alia. Since 2020, she is associate editor of the International Journal of Consumer Studies.
Valeria Karina Moreno
IIT Comillas
Valeria Karina Moreno is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) at the Engineering School (ICAI) of the Comillas Pontifical University. She is an Industrial Engineer from the National Technical University (UTN) of Argentina. In 2018 she graduated with an M.Sc. Degree in Energy Engineering, with a specialization in Renewable Energy, taught by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).
Matteo Troncia
IIT Comillas
Matteo Troncia is Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) at the Engineering School (ICAI) of the Comillas Pontifical University. In 2021, he received the PhD degree (Doctor Europaeus) in industrial engineering from the University of Cagliari (Italy) with a thesis on the methodologies for appraising smart grid projects in which flexibility competes with grid expansion. He is an electrical engineer; he received his Master’s Degree (cum laude) in 2017 from the University of Cagliari. During his PhD, Matteo has been part of the Power System group of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE). In 2014, he was a student intern at the Department of Energy Management and Power System Operation (e²n) at the University of Kassel (Germany). In 2020, Matteo joined the Smart and Sustainable Grids research area of IIT as postdoctoral researcher. His activity mainly concerns research projects regarding power system decarbonisation and electricity markets for integrating renewables and distributed energy resources in the electricity sector. From January 2021, he is operating agent of ISGAN Academy of the International Smart Grid Action Network, which is a Technology Collaboration Programme supported by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Eliana Carolina Ormeño Mejía
IIT Comillas
Eliana Ormeño Mejía, completed her bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil-Ecuador. She got a Master's Degree in Energy Engineering, specialization in Renewable Energy, at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and a Diploma in Electricity Markets of the Future and its Regulation at Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. She currently works as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT). Her research focuses on exploring how several mechanisms for acquiring flexibility from third-party resources can interact to provide system services to the distribution network, transitioning from a single-mechanism approach to an efficient combination of acquisition mechanisms.
Tomás Gómez San Román
IIT Comillas
Tomás Gómez San Román is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the Engineering School of Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain. He obtained the Degree of Doctor Ingeniero Industrial from Universidad Politécnica, Madrid, in 1989, and the Degree of Ingeniero Industrial in Electrical Engineering from Comillas in 1982. He joined the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) in 1984. He has served as Director of IIT, and Vice-Rector of Research, Development, and Innovation of Comillas. Prof. Gómez has a large experience in industry joint research projects in the field of Electric Energy Systems in collaboration with Spanish, Latin American, and European institutions. He has been project manager and/or principal investigator in more than 80 research projects. His areas of interest are operation and planning of transmission and distribution systems, power quality assessment and regulation, and economic and regulatory issues in the electrical power sector. He has published more than 100 articles in different specialized magazines such as IEEE PES Transactions and Conference proceedings, and has co-authored the book «Electricity Economics: Regulation and Deregulation» in Wiley-IEEE Press. He is a senior member of IEEE. He is president of the Council of the Power System Computation Conference and belongs or has belonged to the Technical Committees of other Conferences: Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems and IEEE Power Tech. He has been visiting researcher at the Energy Analysis Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. From May 2011 to October 2013 he served as commissioner at the Spanish Energy Regulatory Commission (CNE).
José Pablo Chaves Ávila
IIT Comillas
José Pablo Chaves Ávila is a professor at the Engineering School (ICAI) and a researcher at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) at the Comillas Pontifical University. In 2008, he obtained the Bachelor in Economics from the University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica). As part of the Erasmus Mundus master in Economics and Management of Network Industries, he holds the Master in the Electric Power Industry from ICAI and the master in Digital Economics and Network Industries from Paris Sud-11 University (Paris, France). In 2014 he obtained the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate on Sustainable Energy Technologies and Strategies Degree at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), a joint program with Comillas Pontifical University and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. His areas of interest are Energy Economics, integration of renewable resources and distributed energy resources in the electricity sector, smart grids and regulation of the electricity and other energy sectors. He has over 80 national and international publications in journals and conference proceedings on these topics. José Pablo has been visiting scholar at the European University Institute (Italy), the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. During his postdoctoral research, he participated in the Utility of the Future project, a joint project between IIT and MIT. From September 2016, he is lead and operating agent of the ISGAN Academy of the International Smart Grid Action Network. In August 2020 he was selected as a member of the Expert list of the Regional Commission of the Electrical Interconnection for Central American (CRIE) and in September 2021 was appointed as a member of the ACER Expert Group on Demand Side Flexibility for EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). From October 2020 he is Deputy Director of the Institute for Research in Technology.
Miguel Ángel Ruiz Hernández
IIT Comillas
Miguel Ángel Ruiz is a research assistant at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) at the Engineering School (ICAI) of the Comillas Pontifical University. In 2017, He received his MsC in industrial engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, focusing his research in optimization modeling and clustering techniques applied to the agricultural sector. In 2012, he received his bachelor´s degree in industrial engineering from the university Carlos III of Madrid (uc3m). Miguel has experience in the private sector, in the healthcare and banking industry. He also has experience as entrepreneur.
José Villar
INESC TEC
José Villar is Senior Researcher at INESC TEC in its Centre for Power and Energy Systems where he manages the area of Electricity Markets. He has participated in more than 80 research projects with industry and administrations and is co-author of more than 150 papers in international journals and conferences. Born in 1967 in Madrid, he received the degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991 and his Ph.D in 1997 from ICAI, the school of Engineering of Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid. From 1997 to 2017 he was Researcher at the IIT, the research of ICAI, IIT Deputy Director from 2004 to 2016, and Senior Associate Professor at ICAI until 2017. His areas of interest include electricity markets modelling and regulation, and the operation and strategic planning of power systems in the current context of energy transition.
Luís Rodrigues
INESC TEC
Luís Rodrigues holds a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). Currently, he works as a researcher at INESC TEC, where he is a member of the Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES). His research focuses on power systems, renewable energy integration, and energy markets. In addition, he has authored or co-authored multiple articles published in international journals and conferences.
Fábio Coelho
INESC TEC
Fábio Coelho is a senior researcher at HASLab – INESC TEC and University of Minho. He holds a PhD (2018) in Computer Science from the University of Minho, Portugal. His research is focused on cloud-based SQL HTAP databases, cloud computing, distributed systems, benchmarking and interoperability. He has several international publications in top-tier conferences, such as ACM CSurv, SRDS, DAIS and ICPE. He participated in several national and EU H2020 and HEU projects such as CoherentPaaS, LeanBigData and CloudDBAppliance, Integrid and InterConnect coordinated by INESC TEC. Currently he participates in HEU Enershare, BeFlexible, Hedge.IoT and GreenDat.Ai EU projetcs. (ORCID: 0000-0002-0188-6400; Google Scholar: OxbiNgAAAAJ&hl , Scopus Author: 56770825600).