Power system planning reliability & resilience

This area addresses the power system decision problems associated with the expansion of generation, transmission and distribution lines and their respective operation, through the development of models and tools able to minimize investment and operation costs, while maintaining a high level of reliability. This includes the support to security of supply evaluation, where new concepts and tools are being developed to cope with the power system transition issues. This involves strong cooperation with the TSO and government bodies. The development of reliability analysis methodologies led to a theoretical basis that can be used to build new models associated to resilience evaluation and improvement, for selected examples of extreme cases generated from climate change situations.