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How can we improve renewable energy forecasts without undermining competitiveness between companies? Luís Rodrigues, researcher at INESC TEC, seems to have an answer - and his idea has been recognised with the Vestas Award for best master’s thesis.
12th December 2025
Two days, more than 50 participants, and one conviction: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly one of the most powerful allies in Europe’s energy transition. The second Energy & Green AI workshop - organised by INESC TEC and SINTEF Digital under the European project ENFIELD - brought together experts from several countries to discuss the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of AI and energy systems.
12th December 2025
The goal? To advance the development of a European foundation model of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for energy grids - a strategic project for the future of the European Union’s (EU) energy system. The means? The “Workshop on the European AI Foundation Model for Energy Grids”, organised by the European Commission, Fraunhofer FIT, INESC TEC and NTUA (namely DG ENER) on 8 December, in Brussels. The actors? First and foremost, INESC TEC, which played an active and key role at the event, with researcher Ricardo Bessa representing the Institute, but also electricity distribution and transmission system operators (DSOs and TSOs), other research institutions, European AI Factories, sector associations and representatives of the European Commission.
11th December 2025
Another INESC TEC researcher has been elevated to IEEE Fellow – one of the most prestigious recognitions in the field of engineering: Ricardo Bessa, a researcher at INESC TEC - where he leads the Power & Energy Systems area -, was acknowledged for his “contributions to renewable energy forecasting and the integration in decision-support tools,” as stated in the note sent by Kathleen A. Kramer, IEEE President and CEO.
04th December 2025
Bilbao hosted Europe’s largest energy event - Enlit Europe. Over three days (18-20 November), the Spanish city brought together thousands of people dedicated to research, industry, and public policies, among others, with clear goals: to connect stakeholders, inspire action, and help Europe continue to build an energy system based on decarbonisation and digitalisation. INESC TEC once again answered the call and was represented across several domains.
28th November 2025
From Porto to Viana, with a stop in Aguçadoura: this is the route towards the future of renewable energy. Over two days, the EnerTEF consortium – with INESC TEC as a member - had the opportunity to discuss the project’s achievements and visit one of the Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) based in Portugal - a site where it will be possible to test, validate, and certify Artificial Intelligence solutions applied to the energy sector.
07th November 2025
160 participants, seven pitches, a roundtable with five experts, a technology showcase, and a unifying theme: Power & Energy. At the second edition of INESC TEC’s Energy Technology Open Day, the present and future of the energy sector took centre stage, with discussions on topics like energy communities, electric mobility, digitalisation and renewable energy integration.
28th October 2025
A world powered by hydrogen? The road ahead has some challenges, but also major opportunities – especially those emerging from the collaboration between Europe and the United States. INESC TEC took part in Hydrogen Day 2025 at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), an event that brought together industry, academia and international experts to help build a more sustainable energy future.
21st October 2025
How can we bring science and culture closer together? The answer may now be reached more quickly - with the appointment of INESC TEC researcher Susana Bayo as a member of the Consello da Cultura Galega, the advisory body of the Autonomous Community of Galicia responsible for promoting knowledge and advising the regional government on cultural matters.
07th October 2025
Managing an energy community could become even more efficient thanks to a set of digital tools that INESC TEC is developing within the European EMPEDOFLEX project. There are at least 10 interoperable applications in development, which will be validated in four real-world cases, designed to help municipalities, grid operators, and energy community managers reduce costs, integrate more renewable energy sources, and increase network resilience.
29th September 2025
Recently, INESC TEC researchers collaborated with the Smart Grid Interoperability Laboratory of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) - the EC’s science and knowledge service that supports public policy development - to train the technical staff in semantic interoperability, a key technology for the digitalisation of Europe’s energy sector.
29th September 2025
The delay in generating synthetic data for time series – fundamental elements in energy forecasting scenarios – was one of the motivations for GENESIS, a project that aims to provide local electricity markets with contextual synthetic data and reliable artificial intelligence models.
22nd September 2025