Joana Desport Coelho

Is a member of the Communication Service of INESC TEC since 2015. Since June 2021 is the Head of the Communication Service. Until then, she was in charge of the press relations of the institution (until the end of 2019), led work packages of Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation of results in some European projects in the energy area – actions that she continues to develop nowadays – namely in projects such as InterConnect, UPGRID, FEEdBACk, GReSBAS, etc. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication science: Journalism, Public Relations and Multimedia (with specialization in Press Relations) from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, a master’s degree in Marketing and Strategic Management from the School of Economics and Management of the University of Minho and is a PhD candidate in Management (with specialization in Marketing and Strategy) of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto. Before joining INESC TEC, she worked at a communication agency, in research projects at the university and in a pharmaceutical distribution company, as a communication manager.

Domains

Power and Energy Systems Communication Service

Projects

UPGRID

The goal of the project is to provide the power grid with an intelligent management system that will make it possible to improve the quality of the service and improve energy efficiency, taking into consideration the participation of end-users in the electricity market. Until the end of 2017, four smart grids demonstrators will be installed in Europe: at Parque das Nações, in Lisbon, at Bidelek Sareak Smart Grid, in Bilbao (Spain), in Gdynia, Gdansk area (Poland), and in the city of Åmål, in southern Sweden. The Portuguese demonstrator will be installed at Parque das Nações, involving over 20 thousand residential consumers.

Real proven solutions to enable active demand and distributed generation flexible integration, through a fully controllable LOW Voltage and medium voltage distribution grid

ATTEST

The objective of the ATTEST project is to develop and operationalize a modular open source toolbox comprising a suite of innovative tools to support TSOs / DSOs operating, maintaining and planning the energy systems of 2030 and beyond in an optimised and coordinated manner, considering technical, economic and environmental aspects. The consortium, from six EU countries, that has been assembled to deliver ATTEST consists of five highly experienced research organisations in the energy systems area, two utilities that manage and operate the transmission system and the distribution system in Croatia, and two industry partners that specialise in the development of advanced ICT solutions and SCADA systems.The development of this broad spectrum of energy-related ICT tools and the utilization of next generation algorithms, demonstrated in a real world environment has not been attempted before. The outputs from the ATTEST project will enable accelerated dissemination, by a wide range of research institutions, within and outside of the project consortium, of the tools that will help TSOs and DSOs to better manage their networks. The demonstration of the results of the project will be valuable for the scientific community and EU energy industry and attest to the relevance of the solutions developed.

Advanced Tools Towards cost-efficient decarbonisation of future reliable Energy SysTems

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Centres

Communication Service

Communicating science can be challenging, but not for our Communication team. We all know the saying: "If something is not communicated, it doesn't exist." That’s why our team focuses on developing ideas, planning, organising, and coordinating both internal and external communication for our institution, ensuring that information about what we do reaches everyone. They contribute to our visibility by following established regulations and procedures, and play an active role in positioning our brand as a solid and reputable R&D institution. How? Through an approach focused on five main components: content, design and multimedia, events, participation in communication working groups, and dissemination of national or European projects, as well as translation. The Communication team ensures that scientific communication gets the attention it deserves, fostering stronger bonds with civil society and fighting misinformation.

Power and Energy Systems

INESC TEC’s main actor in the energy field is the Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES), which falls within the Cluster Energy Systems. We at CPES are internationally recognised for our expertise in the integration of renewable energy in power systems, distributed generation, storage, smart grids and areas traditionally associated with the planning and operation of power systems. The high level of expertise developed has allowed our experts at CPES to take on key roles in important EU projects as part of the successive framework programmes that led to notable scientific and technical advances with considerable impact on industry. This has led to contracts for development and consultancy with companies manufacturing equipment and with generation, transmission and distribution companies, regulators, government agencies and investors in Europe, South America, the United States of America and Africa. At CPES, we address the following main research areas: Decision Making, Optimisation and Computational Intelligence, Forecasting, Static and Dynamic analysis of Energy Grids, Reliability, Power Electronics.