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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.
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- 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.
- A research team from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) has participated in the M3LEC project, coordinated by the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), a joint centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), with the Universidad de Sevilla (US) / Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla (IMSE) also participating. M3LEC aimed to contribute to the characterisation of the Martian atmosphere and meteorology, and to investigate new instrumentation for future planetary exploration missions.
- The Interdisciplinary Group on Building Science and Technology (GICITED) and the Energy, Catalysis, Process and Reaction Engineering (ENCORE) research group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) are participating in the European ArchiSpace project, to develop infrastructure prototypes for human settlements in extraterrestrial environments using materials and conditions analogous to those on the Moon and Mars.
