Biography:
Javier García González was born in Salamanca in 1972.
He obtained the Industrial Engineer degree, specializing in Electricity, from ETSEIB, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, in 1996.
That year he joined the Institute for Technological Research (IIT) of Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, to carry out his doctorate in the area of decision support models in the electricity sector. He obtained the Ph.D. in 2001 and his thesis was awarded by the Royal Academy of Doctors as the best doctoral thesis in the scientific and technological area in that year.
Currently, he is Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the ICAI School of Engineering, U. Pontificia Comillas.
From 2007 to 2014 he was the Director of the Master in the Electric Power Industry (MEPI), as well as Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Economics and Management of Network Industries (EMIN).
From 2016 until 2022, he was Deputy Director of IIT.
His research activities are developed at IIT within the group "Decision support systems for the energy sector" where he has participated in more than 70 research projects developed mainly for electricity companies and related institutions, being the principal researcher of many of them.
He has supervised five doctoral theses, co-authored 6 book chapters, and more than 30 journal papers.
In 2010 and 2023 he was Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Since 2010, he has been an MIT affiliate as a lecturer of the IAP course "Electric power system modeling for a low carbon economy".
In 2012 he was Visiting Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
His areas of interest include operations, planning, and the economy of power systems.
Areas of interest:
Decision support models in the electric power industry
S.A. Mansouri, A. Ramos, J.P. Chaves, J. García-González, J.A. Aguado, "A DSO-Driven Privacy-Preserving Mechanism for Managing Power Exchanges in Australian Networks", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 21, nº. 11, pp. 8673 - 8683, November 2025. [Online: July 2025] doi: 10.1109/TII.2025.3586048
C. Domínguez-Barbero, J. García-González, M.A. Sanz-Bobi, A. García-Cerrada, "Energy management of a microgrid considering nonlinear losses in batteries through Deep Reinforcement Learning", Applied Energy, Vol. 368, pp. 123435, August 2024. [Online: May 2024] doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.123435
P. Otaola-Arca, J. García-González, P. Linares, "Optimal self-unit commitment with shared asset ownership under realistic taxation in the current decarbonization framework", International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 156, pp. 109713, February 2024. [Online: December 2023] doi: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2023.109713
C. Domínguez-Barbero, J. García-González, M.A. Sanz-Bobi, "Twin-delayed deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm for the energy management of microgrids", Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 125, pp. 106693, October 2023. [Online: July 2023] doi: 10.1016/j.engappai.2023.106693
S.A. Mansouri, E. Nematbakhsh, A. Ramos, J.P. Chaves, J. García-González, J.A. Aguado, "Internet data centers and industrial parks as flexibility providers in modern power systems: An ADMM-based coordination mechanism", Applied Energy, Vol. 407, pp. 127320, March 2026. [Online: January 2026] doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.127320
S.A. Mansouri, A. Ramos, J.P. Chaves, J. García-González, J.A. Aguado, "A DSO-Driven Privacy-Preserving Mechanism for Managing Power Exchanges in Australian Networks", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 21, nº. 11, pp. 8673 - 8683, November 2025. [Online: July 2025] doi: 10.1109/TII.2025.3586048
C. Domínguez-Barbero, J. García-González, M.A. Sanz-Bobi, A. García-Cerrada, "Energy management of a microgrid considering nonlinear losses in batteries through Deep Reinforcement Learning", Applied Energy, Vol. 368, pp. 123435, August 2024. [Online: May 2024] doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.123435
P. Otaola-Arca, J. García-González, P. Linares, "Optimal self-unit commitment with shared asset ownership under realistic taxation in the current decarbonization framework", International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 156, pp. 109713, February 2024. [Online: December 2023] doi: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2023.109713
C. Domínguez-Barbero, J. García-González, M.A. Sanz-Bobi, "Twin-delayed deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm for the energy management of microgrids", Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 125, pp. 106693, October 2023. [Online: July 2023] doi: 10.1016/j.engappai.2023.106693
C. Domínguez-Barbero, J. García-González, M.A. Sanz-Bobi, E.F. Sánchez-Úbeda, "Optimising a microgrid system by deep reinforcement learning techniques", Energies, Vol. 13, nº. 11, pp. 2830, June 2020. [Online: June 2020] doi: 10.3390/en13112830
N. Jovanovic, J. García-González, S. Cerisola, J. Barquín, "Impact of risk aversion on the operation of hydroelectric reservoirs in the presence of renewable energy sources", Energies, Vol. 11, nº. 6, pp. 1389, June 2018. [Online: May 2018] doi: 10.3390/en11061389
M. Chazarra, J.I. Pérez-Díaz, J. García-González, "Deriving optimal end of day storage for pumped-storage power plants in the joint energy and reserve day-ahead scheduling", Energies, Vol. 10, nº. 6, pp. 813, June 2017. [Online: June 2017] doi: 10.3390/en10060813
Z. Khan, P. Linares, J. García-González, "Integrating water and energy models for policy driven applications. A review of contemporary work and recommendations for future developments", Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 67, pp. 1123 - 1138, January 2017. [Online: October 2016] doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.08.043
Z. Khan, P. Linares, J. García-González, "Adaptation to climate-induced regional water constraints in the Spanish energy sector: an integrated assessment", Energy Policy, Vol. 97, pp. 123 - 135, October 2016. [Online: July 2016] doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2016.06.046
M. Chazarra, J.I. Pérez-Díaz, J. García-González, "Economic viability of pumped-storage power plants equipped with ternary units and considering hydraulic short-circuit operation", presented at Hydropower Plants Performance and Flexible Operation Towards Lean Integration of New Renewable Energies Symposium - HYPERBOLE 2017, Porto, Portugal, 02-03 February 2017. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 813, pp. 012013-1/012013-5, doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/813/1/012013
G. Morales-España, R. Baldick, J. García-González, A. Ramos, "Power-Capacity and Ramp-Capability Reserves for Wind Integration in Power-based Unit Commitment", presented at Technical Conference to Increase Real-Time and Day-Ahead Efficiency Through Software - FERC 2016, Washington, United States of America, 27-29 June 2016
M. Chazarra, J.I. Pérez-Díaz, J. García-González, A. Helseth, "Modeling the real-time use of reserves in the joint energy and reserve hourly scheduling of a pumped storage plant", presented at 5th International Workshop on Hydro Scheduling in Competitive Electricity Markets, Trondheim, Norway, 17-18 September 2015. In: Energy Procedia, vol. 87, pp. 53-60, doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.12.357
J. García-González, A. Contreras, E. Saiz, C. Fernandes, M. Vallés, E. Rivero, E. Lobato, A. Ramos, P. Frías, I. Egido, P. Sánchez, A. Altiparmakis, M. Litong-Palima, N. A. Cutululis, P. Sørensen, M. Stryg, J. Hansen, N. Detlefsen, J.C. Villumsen, J. Andersen, S. Wöllner, K.L. Falk, P. Ostos, J. Rivier, I. Azpiri, et al., "Economic impact analysis of the demonstrations in task-forces TF1 and TF3". Project: TWENTIES / WP15 / D15.1. Funded by Comisión Europea whitin "FP7-ENERGY". Nov/2013. IIT-15-016I