F.-Javier Heredia - Academic web site

El passat 17 de juliol es va celebrar a la seu d'ACC1Ó una jornada de treball per a la preparació de propostes de projectes europeus en l'àmbit de l'energia (agenda de la jornada). Vaig participar en la sessió temàtica 2 sobre smartgrigds presentant les aportacións del grup GNOM-Energy als diferents temes de la convocatòria  relacionats amb gestió òptima d'smartgrids i la seva integració en el sistema energètic.

L'alumna del Màster en Estadística i Investigació Operativa (MEIO) i llicenciada en matemàtiques Lucia Igualada va presentar el passat 4 de juliol la seva tesi final de màster Optimal Management of Microgrids. La Lucia Igualada ha desenvolupat aquesta tesi com a becaria del grup d'Economia de l'Energia de l'Intitut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya (IREC) amb la col·laboració amb el Group on Numerical Optimization and Modeling de la UPC (GNOM - Energy), sota la co-direcció de la Dr. Cristina Corchero, professora de GNOM i investigadora de l'IREC, i jo mateix. Aquest treball va obtenir la nota màxima 10 i guardonada amb la menció de matrícula d'honor otorgada per la Comissió de Matrícula d'Honor del MEIO.

The European Energy Market conference (EEM) has achieved a considerable success over the past eight years. Its main topics covers electricity and gas market policies, security of supply, climate change and many other developments at a European level. In May 2012 this event was hosted in Florence, Italy, by the Florence School of Regulation and the Loyola de Palacio Chair (two linked research units at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute). I contributed to this event with the following two works: 

• Optimal electricity market bidding strategies considering emission allowances
• Optimal sizing of microgrids: a fast charging station case

Both works will be published as full papers in the conference's proceedings that will be published by the IEEE.

Last June 28 and 29 I was attending the Barcelona Global Energy Challenges . It was the seventh edition of a forum co-organized by the  MIT Industrial Liason Program (MITILP), the Institute for the Energy Research of Catalonia (IREC) and the b_TEC foundation (b_TEC). During the poster session my student Lucia Gonzalez presented the results of her MSc Thesis Optimal Management of Microgrids, developped at the IREC in collaboration with the GNOM-Energy research group

I have just been informed  that a new six years period of my research activity (sexenio de investigación) has been recognized by the National Comission for the Evaluation of the Research Activity of the Spanish Gouvernment (CNEAI). This is my third research period so far recognized .

The CMS conference is an annual meeting associated with the journal of Computational Management Science published by Springer. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for theoreticians and practitioners from academia and industry to exchange knowledge, ideas and results in a broad range of topics relevant to the theory and practice of computational methods, models and empirical analysis for decision making in economics, engineering, finance and management. I was invited to contribute in this conference with the work "Optimal sale bid for a wind producer in Spanish electricity market through stochastic programming ", based on the master thesis of Ms. Simona Sacripante , graduated student of the Master in Statistics and Operations Research, who presented the paper. This work has been partially granted by the public research project DPI2008-02153 of the Spanish gouvernment.