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Dr. Rafael Cossent Arín

Current position:
Research Associate Professor
Research Area:
Distributed Resources, Networks and Flexibility; Energy Systems Modeling and Policy Analysis
Association date:
02/Jul/2007
Location:
RF4. P1.27
Phone extension number:
+34 91 542-2800 ext. 2753
Email:
rafael.cossent@iit.comillas.edu
ORCID:
0000-0002-5740-9689
Researcher ID:
H-9259-2012
Google Scholar ID:
YX-Xh_QAAAAJ&hl
SCOPUS:
25929093100
IEEE:
37398964900
LinkedIn:
rafaelcossent
Academic Report:
Review

Biography:

Rafael Cossent is a Researcher at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) of ICAI School of Engineering at Comillas Pontifical University, where he acted as coordinator of the Research Unit on Smart and Sustainable Grids between 2016 and 2021. Additionally, he currently is the Codirector of the Chair for Hydrogen Studies and he has previously acted as coordinator of the BP Chair in Energy and Sustainability. Besides his research activities, he teaches on the regulation of network activities in the power sector. Rafael holds an Industrial Engineering degree from Comillas Pontifical University-ICAI and a PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university. Throughout his academic career, he has participated in over 50 research and consultancy projects dealing with power sector economics and regulation, integration of renewable and distributed generation, electric mobility, smart grids, and decarbonization and energy transition. He has published over 50 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings on these topics. Rafael Cossent has been a visiting researcher at INESC (Porto-Portugal) and at Heriot-Watt University (Edimburgh-Scotland), and he has contributed to the on-line education program of the Florence School of Regulation.


Areas of interest:

Power system economics and regulation, energy transition, integration of renewable and distributed generation, smart grids, hydrogen and decarbonization.


Highlighted Publications

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Journal Publications

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Projects

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Conference Papers

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Books and Book Chapters

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International Exchanges

  • Jun - Sep 2011, School of Management & Languages; Chair in Energy Economics, Heriot-Watt University. Edinburgh (United Kingdom).
  • Aug - Sep 2010Porto Power System Unit, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência (INESC-TEC). Porto (Portugal).
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Invited Conferences and Seminars

  • Chair in "Round table: Barriers and opportunities for accelerating the replacement of distribution transformers" 1er Workshop de EU-TRACE en España «El papel de los transformadores en la mejora de la eficiencia energética» . Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Oct 2026.
  • Seminar "Spain’s Renewable Fuel Shake-Up: What RED III Really Means". Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Dec 2025.
  • Round table "GdO-PoS Integration" 13ª sesión del Comité de Sujetos del Sistema de Garantías de Origen (GdO). Enagás GTS. Madrid (Spain). Dec 2025.
  • Conference "Public presentation of the 2024-2025 Annual Report of the Centre for Low Carbon Hydrogen Studies: Electrolytic hydrogen in Spain through projects, regulation and markets ". Cátedra de Estudios sobre el Hidrógeno. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Nov 2025.
  • Round table "Hydrogen Talk: Powering Hydrogen – Easing access to electricity". Hydrogen Europe. Online. Nov 2025.
  • Conference "Public presentation of the 2023-2024 Annual Report of the Centre for Low Carbon Hydrogen Studies ". Cátedra de Estudios sobre el Hidrógeno. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Feb 2025.
  • Round table "H2V price" Congreso Nacional de Hidrógeno Verde. Federación Onubense de Empresarios - FOE. Huelva (Spain). Feb 2025.
  • Presentation "Transposition of RED III and compliance schemes applied in Europe for the incorporation of new gaseous fuels" Asamblea General. Gasnam-Neutral Transport. Madrid (Spain). Dec 2024.
  • Presentation "Current state and future of sustainable transportation technologies: implications for logistics decarbonization" 8ª Jornada Logística Sostenible. Asociación Española de Codificación Comercial - AECOC. Madrid (Spain). Nov 2024.
  • Round table "Digitalisation of electricity distribution networks: indicators and investments" Presentación de informe. . Fundación Naturgy. Madrid (Spain). Jul 2024.
  • Conference "Regulatory treatment of new transport fuels. Guide on new renewable and synthetic fuels" Programa Green Gas Mobility Summit 2024. Gasnam Neutral Transport. Madrid (Spain). Jul 2024.
  • Conference "An orderly transition to the decarbonisation of transport" 23º Foro Nacional del Transporte. AECOC. Madrid (Spain). Mar 2024.
  • Conference "Presentation" Presentación del Informe Anual de la Cátedra de Estudios sobre el Hidrógeno 2023 . Cátedra de Estudios sobre el Hidrógeno. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Oct 2023.
  • Plenary conference "New propulsion technologies" Curso de verano «La innovación del autobús en el transporte público». Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain). Jul 2023.
  • Round table "Energy in the bus of the future in the short and medium term. Science and application" Curso de verano «La innovación del autobús en el transporte público». Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain). Jul 2023.
  • Conference "Divide and conquer: dealing with nonlinearities in electrolyser performance under demand fluctuations. Session: The hydrogen economy" Climate finance and the hydrogen economy 2023. Universidad Pontificia Comillas; y AM Fresh Group. Madrid (Spain). May 2023.
  • Round table "Panel of experts : Open innovation, talent and data" Innovation Week. Iberdrola. Bilbao (Spain). Nov 2022.
  • Conference "Public presentation of the 2021-2022 Annual Report of the Centre for Low Carbon Hydrogen Studies ". Cátedra de Estudios sobre el Hidrógeno. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Oct 2022.
  • Workshop "Regulatory and policy issues" EUniversal Workshop 2022. European project Euniversal. Porto (Portugal). May 2022.
  • Conference "Public presentation of the Report of the Observatory on Energy and Sustainability in Spain. Report based on indicators. 2021 edition". Cátedra BP de Energía y Sostenibilidad. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Apr 2022.
  • Conference "Review of Flagships proposed for the Spanish case" Accelerating Climate Action. Key transformative investment opportunities under the Green transition Analysis of the Spanish case. Agora Energiewend; y Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Nov 2021.
  • Conference "Public presentation of the Report of the Observatory on Energy and Sustainability in Spain. Report based on indicators. 2020 edition". Cátedra BP de Energía y Sostenibilidad. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Apr 2021.
  • Conference "Public presentation of the Report of the Observatory on Energy and Sustainability in Spain. Report based on indicators. 2019 edition". Cátedra BP de Energía y Sostenibilidad. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Jun 2020.
  • Conference "New business models for distribution grid stakeholders under high penetration of DER" Webinar. European Copper Institute. Online. May 2020.
  • Conference "New services that industrial demand can provide to network operators. Practical cases of the InteGrid and CoordiNet European Projects." Jornada Técnica IIT-AEGE. Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica. Universidad Pontificia Comillas; y Asociación de Empresas con Gran Consumo Energético (AEGE). Madrid (Spain). Sep 2019.
  • Conference "Public presentation of the Report of the Observatory on Energy and Sustainability in Spain. Report based on indicators. 2018 edition". Cátedra BP de Energía y Sostenibilidad. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Apr 2019.
  • Conference "Integration of PV and EVs in unbalanced residential LV networks and implications for the smart grid and advanced metering infrastructure deployment" 5th Armand Peugeot Chair International Conference - Electromobility: Challenging Issues. Governance and Regulation; y Vedecom Institute. Paris (France). Dec 2017.
  • Seminar "The structure of the electricity tariff in Spain: energy and non-energy costs" Generación eléctrica distribuida y autoconsumo: evaluación técnica y económica. Fundacion Gas Natural Fenosa; Gobierno de Navarra. Pamplona (Spain). Apr 2016.
  • Seminar "Adapting distribution network regulation to the upcoming challenges" Next Generation of Researchers in Power Systems 2012. Universidad Pontificia Comillas; y Universidad Castilla-La Mancha. Villarino de los Aires (Spain). Oct 2012.
  • Seminar "Reference Network Models: A Tool to Regulate Electricity Networks and Other Applications". Heriot-Watt University. School of Management and Languages. Edinburgh (United Kingdom). Sep 2011.
  • Conference "Electricity distribution network regulation in times of fundamental technological change: previous experience and some unanswered questions" Workshop "Decarbonisation of the power sector". British Embassy in Hungary; Climate Strategies; y REKK. Budapest (Hungary). Jul 2010.
  • Conference "Minimizing the cost of integrating DG and incentives for localisation of DG investments in networks" Workshop "The future of EU electricity grids: who will benefit from smart grids and at what costs?". CEPS. Brussels (Belgium). Mar 2010.
  • Conference "Case studies of system costs on DSO level" IMPROGRES Midterm Conference. IMPROGRES project. Salzburg (Austria). May 2009.
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Organization of Scientific Meetings

  • Organization of " 1er Workshop de EU-TRACE en España «El papel de los transformadores en la mejora de la eficiencia energética» ". Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Oct 2026.
  • Organization of "2026 Climate and Energy Finance Conference". Universidad Pontificia Comillas; y Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA). Madrid (Spain). May 2026.
  • Organization of "2026 RCEA International Conference in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance - RCEA_ICEEF2026". Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis/Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA); University of California Riverside (UC Riverside); Università degli Studi di Milano (UniMi); y Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). May 2026.
  • Organization of "International Congress on Climate Finance and the Hydrogen Economy". Cátedra de Estudios sobre el Hidrógeno. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). May 2025.
  • Organization of "Climate finance and the hydrogen economy 2023". Universidad Pontificia Comillas; y AM Fresh Group. Madrid (Spain). May 2023.
  • Organization of "Opportunities for green hydrogen in the face of the energy transition and barriers to the development of renewable hydrogen projects in Spain". Cátedra de Estudios sobre el Hidrógeno. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Apr 2022.
  • Organization of "Europe´s energy crisis, geopolitical risk and the role of clean hydrogen under the green transition". Cátedra de Estudios sobre el Hidrógeno. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Mar 2022.
  • Organization of "New business models around hydrogen: analysis from different segments of the supply chain". Cátedra de Estudios sobre el Hidrógeno. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Jan 2022.
  • Organization of "Technical conference IIT-AEGE". Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica. Universidad Pontificia Comillas; y Asociación de Empresas con Gran Consumo Energético (AEGE). Madrid (Spain). Sep 2019.
  • Organization of "SUSPLAN-Regional Workshop on Results. "Energy Infrastructure Scenarios for the South-Western Region”". SUSPLAN EU Project, European Union. Madrid (Spain). May 2010.
  • Organization of "Technical Program Committee «Power System Computation Conference 2008»". Glasgow (United Kingdom). Feb 2008.
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Technical Reports

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Working Papers

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External Training Courses

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External Relevant Positions

  • Member SHYNE - Spanish Hydrogen Network. Madrid (Spain). Oct 2024 - Today.
  • Member of BRIDGE Working Group in representation of Integrid project European Commission. Brussels (Belgium). Apr 2017 - Today.
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Media and research dissemination

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Fellowships and Awards

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Other Activities

  • Doctoral Defense Committee of "Herrero Rozas, L.A. «Modelling The Medium-Term Equilibrium Interactions of Wholesale Electricity and Hydrogen Markets»". Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Sep 2026.
  • Doctoral Defense Committee of "Morell Dameto, N.M. «Distribution network tariff design under decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization»". Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Nov 2023.
  • Doctoral Defense Committee of "Gerres, T. «Understanding the implications of industrial decarbonisation. A multidisciplinary approach towards the transition of the basic materials industry and its impact on our energy systems»". Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Jan 2022.
  • Doctoral Defense Committee of "Abdelmotteleb, I. «Designing electricity distribution network charges for an efficient integration of distributed energy resources and customer response»". Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Dec 2018.
  • Doctoral Defense Committee of "Calvillo Muñoz, Ch. F. «Energy management in smart cities»". Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Nov 2017.
  • Doctoral Defense Committee of "Vallés Rodríguez, M. «Efficient implementation and potential benefits of demand response in electricity distribution networks»". Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid (Spain). Jul 2017.
  • Reviewer in "Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks". Elsevier Science BV. Amsterdam (Netherlands). Dec 2015 - May 2018.
  • Reviewer in "Utilities Policy". Elsevier SCI Ltd. Oxford (United Kingdom). May 2015 - Today.
  • Reviewer in "Applied Energy". Elsevier SCI Ltd. Oxford (United Kingdom). Sep 2014 - Mar 2016.
  • Reviewer in "Energy Policy". Elsevier SCI Ltd. Oxford (United Kingdom). Jun 2012 - Mar 2019.
  • Reviewer in "Energy Economics". Elsevier. Amsterdam (Netherlands). Feb 2012 - Mar 2015.
  • Reviewer in "Electric Power Systems Research". Elsevier Science Ltd. Lausanne (Switzerland). Jun 2011 - Nov 2016.
  • Reviewer in "IEEE transactions on Smart Grid". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. - IEEE. Piscataway (United States of America). Mar 2011 - Apr 2016.
  • Reviewer in "IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution". The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Hertford (United Kingdom). Apr 2010 - Jul 2017.
  • Reviewer in "IEEE Transactions on Power Systems". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. - IEEE. Piscataway (United States of America). Apr 2010 - Oct 2017.
  • Reviewer in "International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems - IJEPES". Elsevier SCI Ltd. Oxford (United Kingdom). Jul 2009 - Jun 2018.
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