Energies Webinar | Seamless Integration of Distributed Energy Resources
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Prof. Dr. Zita Vale
GECAD-Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development, Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal;
Zita Vale is Full Professor at the School of Engineering (ISEP) of the Polytechnic of Porto (IPP).
Her main interests regard the application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Power systems, including Knowledge based systems, Multi-agent systems, Neural Networks, Meta-heuristics, Optimization, Machine Learning, and Knowledge Discovery Techniques.
She has been involved in more than 60 R&D projects with external funding. She published over 900 works, including more than 200 papers in international scientific journals.
She has been contributing for renowned international conferences as member of the Program Committee, Program Chair, reviewer, and organizing special and panel sessions. She has also been keynote speaker in several conferences and guest editor and/or member of editorial board of scientific international journals. She contributes to several scientific and technical committees and working groups. Currently, she is President of ISAP – Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems and chairs the Working Group on Intelligent Data Mining and Analysis and the Task Force on Open Datasets of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power and Energy Society (PES).
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On Tuesday, 18 January 2022, MDPI and the Journal Energies organized the 6th webinar on Energies, entitled "Seamless Integration of Distributed Energy Resources".
The introduction was held by the Chair of the webinar, Prof. Dr. Zita Vale. She is Full Professor at the School of Engineering (ISEP) of the Polytechnic of Porto (IPP). Her main interests regard the application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Power systems, including Knowledge based systems, Multi-agent systems, Neural Networks, Meta-heuristics, Optimization, Machine Learning, and Knowledge Discovery Techniques.
The first speaker to quick off this webinar was Prof. Dr. Zita Vale, with her presentation "The Importance of Distributed Energy Resources in Smart Grids".
She was followed by Prof. Dr. Hugo Morais with his presentation "Management of Distributed Energy Resources by System Operators". He graduated as Electrical Engineer from the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, ISEP) in 2002 (Bachelor) and in 2005 (Licenciate). In April of 2012 he finished his PhD concerning "Virtual Power Players action in electricity Markets".
The last presentation with the title "The Use of IoT and Control Algorithms to Boost Energy Management in Smart Buildings" was held by Dr. Roberto Casado-Vara. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca in 2019. He received a degree in Mathematics from the University of Salamanca and a Master's degree in Big Data & Visual Analytics from the International University of La Rioja.
The presentations were followed by a Q&A and a discussion, moderated by the Chair Prof. Dr. Zita Vale. The webinar was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found here on Sciforum website. In order to stay updated on the next webinars on Energies be sure to sign up for our newsletter by clicking on “Subscribe” at the top of the page.
Seamless Integration of Distributed Energy Resources
Guest Editors: Dr. Luis Oliveira Gomes & Prof. Dr. Zita Vale
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022