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UPC and Endesa have signed the renewal of the Endesa Red Chair in Energy Innovation and Sustainability. This continues the collaboration between them that has been in place for over 20 years. The aim of the Chair is to promote research and innovation projects to respond to challenges in the energy sector.
The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) and Endesa have signed the renewal of the Endesa Red Chair in Energy Innovation and Sustainability 2023-2025. Through this Chair (the first of Endesa), since 2005, both institutions have worked together on research and innovation projects to respond to challenges that emerge in the energy sector. In recent years, research has focused on flexibility in the electrical network: the integration into the network of energy from renewable power plants, the increase in energy self-consumption systems in homes and the rollout of charging points for electric vehicles, which are a key element in the energy transition.
In the last three years, the Chair has focused on the development of algorithms to identify the points of the network with the greatest congestion, the network capacity to provide a solution, and network optimisation. This will also make the network capable of absorbing moments of congestion due, for example, to an excess of energy from the renewable power stations at a specific time. This year, research in this field will continue with real data extracted from sensor systems in electrical substations.
The Endesa Red Chair in Energy Innovation and Sustainability has its offices in the Centre for Technological Innovation in Static Converters and Drives (CITCEA) of the UPC, in the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB), and the director is the UPC professor and researcher Andreas Sumper.
Related Projects
- Researchers from the Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (CNDS) research group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) are developing new artificial intelligence-based solutions to obtain more accurate and reliable data from IoT sensor networks, with applications in air quality monitoring, anomaly detection and industrial predictive maintenance.
- The Casa Bosc project explores a lightweight, modular and prefabricated timber construction system designed to reduce the environmental impact of housing while making it easier to build and adapt to different contexts. The project has been developed by researchers from the Architectural Rehabilitation and Restoration Research Group (REARQ) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) and the company ÀGORA.
- The Control, Data and Artificial Intelligence (CoDAlab) research group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) is taking part in the ATHENS project, which is developing recyclable thermoplastic composite materials with advanced real-time monitoring systems to improve the manufacture, safety and service life of lightweight structures.
- The MICROTECH LAB - Microtechnology for the Industry research subgroup, part of the Centre for Advanced Technologies in Mechanics (CATMech) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), is leading the technical development of a minimally invasive platform to monitor biomarkers and physiological indicators related to stress and emotional wellbeing.
