
About Project
Acronym
RECreation
Responsible
José Villar Collado
Status
active
Start
January 11, 2024
End
January 10, 2027
Effective End
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Global Budget
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Financing
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Members
Team Leaders

José Villar
Born in 1967 in Madrid, José Villar is senior researcher at the Centre for Energy Systems of INESC TEC since 2017, and currently responsible for the Electricity Markets area that is dedicated to the modelling and regulation of electricity markets in a context of decarbonization and decentralisation of the energy system. PhD from the "Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieria-ICAI" of the "Universidad Pontificia Comillas" (Madrid) in 1997, he was member of the "Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica -IIT" of the same university and sub-director from 2004 to 2016, and Associate Professor until 2017 at the same university. He has participated in more than 80 research projects with industry and administrations, and has coauthored more than 140 research papers in international journals and conferences. His areas of interest focus on modelling and regulation of electricity markets, integration of renewable energy sources and decentralisation of the energy system.

Mário Amorim Lopes
Associated Centres
Industrial Engineering and Management
The Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI) is internationally recognised in the fields of decision science, optimisation, operations management and service engineering. The mission is to support organisations and communities in decision-making by harnessing the power of data to develop robust and sustainable solutions to complex problems. Research at CEGI focuses on real-world challenges like transport planning, supply chain management, healthcare service networks, industrial operations optimisation, disaster response and recovery, and the impact assessment of public policies. By resorting to Artificial Intelligence, data science and mathematical modelling, CEGI aims to understand system behaviours, improve process efficiency, increase organisational resilience, and anticipate the effects of decisions in uncertain contexts. CEGI operates across critical sectors including mobility, healthcare, retail, industry, energy, and services, focusing on digital transition and sustainability. We collaborate with academia, companies, municipal authorities, hospitals, and regulators, transforming scientific knowledge into applied solutions. We believe that evidence-based management is key to tackling the challenges of a constantly changing world.

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.
