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How can an energy community be planned so that it not only enables the members to share energy, but also provides services to the power grid while increasing economic benefits? This was the question at the heart of Advanced Optimization Models for Planning Energy Communities with Integrated Flexibility Market Support, the master's thesis by Tiago Pintado - which received the Master's Award, presented by the Ordem dos Engenheiros – Região Norte.
21st July 2026
How can we make better use of energy resources? Over the past three years, INESC TEC set out to answer this question through the European GREEN.DAT.AI project, developing tools that combine Artificial Intelligence (AI), secure data sharing and distributed computing.
16th July 2026
INESC TEC, together with 26 other organisations, published a position paper calling on the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Member States to reinforce support for collaborative research, development and innovation (R&D&I) programmes focused on power system components and grid optimisation technologies. The position paper Securing Europe's Electrified Future through RD&I in Electric Power System Components is available as an open-access publication (here) and has been endorsed by the EERA Joint Programme Smart Grids, featuring INESC TEC is a member.
08th July 2026
Electrical systems are facing unprecedented challenges today, and high-voltage engineering plays a central role in ensuring the reliability, safety and efficiency of power grids. The new book by INESC TEC researcher Filipe Azevedo, High Voltage Engineering: Theory, Systems, and Practice, gathers theoretical foundations and practical applications in an area that is critical to the energy transition.
19th June 2026
From the operation of electricity grids to the forecasting of renewable energy production, through the interoperability of distributed energy resources and demand-side flexibility, INESC TEC has been strengthening its commitment to developing open-source solutions for the energy sector. Currently, three open-source projects are part of the Linux Foundation Energy ecosystem — one of the most relevant international communities dedicated to the development of open-source software for energy systems — whilst a fourth technological output is already being used by the Elia Group, operator of the electricity systems in Belgium and Germany.
17th June 2026