Biography:
Shilpa Bindu obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT) - Calicut, India. She did an EIT- Innoenergy double Master’s degree in Energy for Smart Cities at KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm and Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) Barcelona. After finishing her final degree project on ‘Energy Storage Systems for Smart Meter Privacy’, she joined Instituto de Energía Solar (IES- UPM) as a research engineer. Her work involved designing solar simulators for characterizing hybrid solar modules consisting of concentrated and non-concentrated solar cells. Currently, she is working at IIT as a predoctoral research focused on the design of short-term energy markets.
Areas of interest:
Electricity Markets, Congestion management, System balancing, Ancillary services
Skills:
Bilevel optimization, Market analysis, Power flow simulations, Market design, Regulatory analysis
S. Bindu, L. Olmos, J.P. Chaves, "The Devil in the details: the factors determining the selection of intrazonal congestion management methods across Europe", Heliyon, Vol. 10, nº. 4, pp. e26610, February 2024. [Online: February 2024] doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26610
JCR-JIF: 3,600 Q1 (2024); - SJR: 0,644 Q1 (2024); S. Bindu, J.P. Chaves, L. Olmos, "Factors affecting market participant decision making in the Spanish intraday electricity market: auctions vs. continuous trading", Energies, Vol. 16, nº. 13, pp. 5106, July 2023. [Online: July 2023] doi: 10.3390/en16135106
JCR-JIF: 3,000 Q3 (2023); 3,900 Q3 (2025) - SJR: 0,651 Q1 (2023); 0,748 Q1 (2025) 
