Tomás Gómez presented last 13 of July the study «The new electric utitlity» (MIT-Comillas) in the summer course «Els Juliols:the energy transition and electric markets» Programme here.
IIT participate actively on «Industre» proyect. The flexibility of the industrial electricity demand has been identified as a potential that through innovative business models can facilitate further growth of variable renewable energy, while reducing the industrial electricity costs and contributing to the European energy policy goals. In this project the large industry is working with the renewable energy community to identify and implement business models for supplying variable renewable electricity to industrial users with flexibility in their demand, creating win-win situations. Several variations of the business models will be described covering different options like on and off-site renewable energy production. The business models will be adapted to 5 industrial sectors (chemicals, non-ferrous metals, cold storage, steel, and water treatment) and 6 target countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK). More information here.
Last 29 of June was celebrated the Closure of 1st edition of Celeraton, an event destinate to promote the interdisciplinary research in Spain through the emulation of Hackatones of entrepreneurs and the formula that they use in the prestigious Santa Fe Institute. This initiative, led by Sara Lumbreras Sancho of the IIT and promoted by the Celera Association by Francisco Martínez, has been supported by Rafael del Pino Foundation, Pontificial Comillas University and Pons Foundation, has provided a total of 5 projects.
Iberdrola and MIT Energy Initiative announce $10.3 million collaboration. This expanded collaboration follows Iberdrola’s multi-year sponsorship of MITEI’s Utility of the Future study and the corresponding report released in December 2016. The study — which MITEI conducted with Spain’s Institute for Research in Technology at Comillas Pontifical University (IIT-Comillas) — highlighted emerging trends in the electric power sector, where decarbonization, digitization, renewable energies and energy storage will continue to define the industry and determine a more flexible and efficient consumption of energy. More information here and here.
Tomás Gómez participated last 21 and 22 of June in «EUSEW 2017», the most important European conference dedicated to sustainable energy policy issues. Programme here.
Pedro Ciller y Rafael Espejo, which are currently research assistants at IIT, attended to the presentation of the Cotec report 2017 the 12-th of June at the Vicente Calderón Stadium. This event was presided by the king of Spain Felipe VI. The Cotec report presents each year, since 1996, all the data, analysis, opinions and proposals necessary to make innovation a true driver of economic and social change in Spain. More information here.
Tomás Gómez participated last 14 of June on the workshop «Future of the European energy industry» organized by FEEM, Bruegel and the Florence School of Regulation. Programme here.
Ignacio P. Arriaga presented at IESE Business School the report "Utility of the future: an MIT Energy Initiative response to an industry in transition". More information here.
Recently published the report authored by several researchers from IIT, and led by Ignacio P. Arriaga, for IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency) «Adapting market design to high shares of variable renewable energy». Liberalised electricity markets require timely adaptation to support higher shares of variable renewable (solar and wind) energy and distributed power generation. This study from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) presents the latest knowledge on the adaptation process for such markets, aiming to inform policy makers, regulators and system operators on the options available..
The report analyses challenges and solutions, and provides recommendations, on how to adapt electricity market design to high shares of variable renewable energy.
Tomás Gómez participated last 30-31 of May on the JRC-CAS Symposium on Smart Grids «Smart grid research and innovation: challenges and prospects for China and Europe» organised by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. Programme here.
Tomorrow will begin WINDFARMS 2017 - International Colloquium on «Large Wind-Power Plants: Interaction, Control and Integration» hosted by Andrés Ramos, Sara Lumbreras y Benjamin F. Hobbs. More inforamtion here.
Alvaro Sánchez hosted last 23 and 24 of May in IIT - Comillas a technical meeting of the UPGRID projectt, to evaluate its impact from the social, economic and environmental point of view. Information about the project here.
The Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) will celebrate next 26 of May its 12th Workshop Annual Josite 2017 on industrial systems and energy technologies. The objective of the 12th edition of this workshop is to provide an adequate forum for the presentation of the latest research, the exchange of ideas, and to encourage the collaboration among all the IIT members and invited participants.
Following the initiative launched in the framework of the Aristos Campus Mundus 2015 Project, Campus of International Excellence, Josite’2017 is open to researchers from University of Deusto, Universidad Pontificia Comillas and Universitat Ramon Llull. Programme here.
IIT hosts the conference WINDFARMS 2017 - International Colloquium on «Large Wind-Power Plants: Interaction, Control and Integration» that will be celebrated from 31 of May to 2 of June. More information here.
RNM: Reference Network Model 
SIMPRIME: SimPRIME 
CANDY: Catenary Non-linear Dynamics 
OWL: Offshore Windfarm Layout optimizer