NEWS
- Conference: IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2021, October 18-21, 2021
Zahra Forouzandeh attended the IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2021, presenting the research works: “Optimal Contract Power and Battery Energy Storage System Capacity for Smart Buildings”, (online presentation). Check here for details.
- Conference: EPIA 2021 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence – September 7-9, 2021
João Soares attended the EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, presenting the research work: “Optimizing Energy Consumption of Household Appliances Using PSO and GWO” (online presentation). Check here
- Conference: ICREPQ´21 – 19th International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality, July 28-20, 2021
Sérgio Ramos and João Soares attended the 19th International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICREPQ´21), Almeria, Spain, presenting the research works: “Shared PV Production in Energy Communities and Buildings Context”; “Intelligent Resource Management in the context of a Microgrid of Smart Buildings”. Check here for more information.
- Workshop – Intelligent Buildings Management and Trusted Local Energy Markets” – ISEP, Online, 12th January 2021
The workshop ” Intelligent Buildings Management and Trusted Local Energy Markets” has been held on 12th January 2021, in online format, as part of the SAIT-FCT BeNeFICE project, together with SPET project. The presentations involved forecasting and optimization techniques for energy building management and local energy markets simulators. Check the agenda here
- Conference: 14th International Symposium INTELS’20 – December 14-16
Sérgio Ramos attended the INTELS 2020 conference on December 14-16, 2020 presenting the research work: “Data mining techniques for electricity customer characterization” (online presentation). This paper was published in Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 186, January 2021, pp. 475-488, ISSN 1877-0509. doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2021.04.168. (online presentation). Check here for details and for online presentation check here.
- Conference: AIPES – Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems – 4th September 2020
Zahra Forouzandeh participated in the ECAI 2020 Workshop AIPES – Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems (24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2020) in 4th September 2020 presenting the research work: “The Effect of Charging and Discharging Processes of Electric Vehicles and Battery Energy Storage in the Energy Management of Smart Buildings” (online presentation). Check here for more information.
- BeNeFICE participates in I Luso-Brazilian Workshop – 17th of January 2020
Professor Sérgio Ramos participated in first Luso-Brazilian workshop on the premises of School of Engineering (ISEP) of Polytechnic of Porto, namely in GECAD – Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development) and UNESP, São Paulo, will be travelling to the Portuguese partner to join the discussion and present their ideas on the topics of the CENERGETIC project. The scope of BENEFICE Project was presented.
Agenda
- 14h00 – 14h30 Participants registration and networking
- 14h30 – 14h40 Opening session
- João Soares, GECAD, ISEP, Politécnico do Porto
- Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, ISEP, Politécnico do Porto
- 14h40 – 15h00 CENERGETIC in a glance and first-year progress
- Joao Soares, GECAD, ISEP, Politécnico do Porto
- Ruben Romero, UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil
- 15h00 – 15h20 Overview of the application of the metaheuristics used in the optimization of electric power systems.
- Ruben Romero, UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil
- 15h20 – 16h00 HyDE-DF: a new evolutionary algorithm for optimization in smart grids
- Fernando Lezama, GECAD, ISEP, Politécnico do Porto
- 16h00 – 16h30 Networking and coffee break
- 16h30 – 16h50 Research on electric vehicles developed at LAPSEE
- John Fredy Franco, UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil
- 16h50 – 17h10 Distribution Network Operation and Reconfiguration in a Smart Grid Context Using Dynamic-Based EV Charging Price
- Bruno Canizes, GECAD, ISEP, Politécnico do Porto
- 17h10 – 17h30 Cyber Security for Smart Grids Connected to Renewable Energy
- Bruno Ferreira, Vestas Wind Systems, Portugal
- 17h30 – 17h50 Energy resource management in a building context
- Sérgio Ramos, GECAD, ISEP, Politécnico do Porto
- 17h50 – 18h00 Closing
- IEEE PES GTD ASIA 2019 (19-23 March)
Sérgio Ramos and João Soares attended the IEEE PES GTD ASIA 2019 Conference presenting the recent results of BeNeFICE Project 19-23 March 2019. An oral presentation was done concerning the proposed research paper, i.e. the methodology based on the knowledge discovery process to support electricity customer characterization. It also presents a Data Mining review, based on clustering and classification techniques. In the poster session, a poster was presented concerning an introduction to the linear programming optimization (LP) method and review the main works related to the scope of Smart Buildings energy resources optimization modeled as LP, with the objective to analyze different approaches taken to meet their goals.
- BeNeFICE participates in 2019- DREAM-GO Workshop: Demand response approaches for real-time renewable energy integration – 16th and 17th of January 2019
Professor Sérgio Ramos participated in 2019 DREAM-GO Workshop, regarding demand response approaches for real-time renewable energy integration, belonging to panel: Sustainable and intelligent buildings. Check the full program of the 2019 DREAM-GO Workshop days in here.
- Researchers from BeNeFICE teams visited Honda Research Institute (HRI) – Offenbach am Main, Germany – 26th November 2018
The visit has been held in Honda RI premises involving researchers from HRI and 3 researchers from GECAD: Sérgio Ramos, João Soares, and Fernando Lezama. Subjects concerning the integration of EVs in the grid and computational intelligence for energy resource management in buildings were discussed. Previously, the team had the opportunity to meet HRI researchers and their work at GECCO 2017 and WCCI 2018 (last July in Rio de Janeiro).
- Kick-off – July 2018
The BeNeFICE team has met on 4th July of 2018 at 14h30 (Lisbon Time) in GECAD facilities for the kick-off of the project. The team has discussed the planning details of the several activities and proposed milestones to be achieved. The budget for the Portuguese team is around 240 mil euros, from FCT funding agency. The kick-off slides can be found here.
AWARDS
- BEST POSTER AWARD
The European Association for the Development of Renewable Energy, Environment and Power Quality (EA4EPQ) to the authors of one of three best posters presented at the “International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICREPQ´21)” that has been held in the University of Almeria (Spain), from 28th to 30th of July, 2021, with the title: “Intelligent Resource Management in the context of a Microgrid of Smart Buildings”, and authors: Sérgio Ramos, João Soares, Zahra Forouzandeh, Inês Tavares, António Gomes.
