Winner of the 2nd edition
EDP Labelec Merit Award 2023
This year, Pablo Rodríguez Pajarón won the prize with his thesis "Probabilistic assessment of power quality in residential distribution networks", from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
This thesis developed methods to assess and analyze power quality levels probabilistically considering the uncertain patterns of modern devices and to perform real-time state estimation of power quality.
This work aims to ensure that the energy transition does not lead to a loss of security, efficiency and quality.
The award ceremony took place on 10 November at the Hotel Miragem, in Cascais.
Soon we will give you news about the 3rd edition of the award, which will happen in 2025.
Winners
EDP Labelec Merit Award
The winners of the first edition of the EDP Labelec Merit Award are already known. Two doctoral theses focused on renewable energies were awarded ex aequo.
The winners, Carla Sofia da Silva Gonçalves, from the University of Porto, with a thesis on "Renewable Energy Forecasting - Extreme Quantiles, Data Privacy and Monetization" (PhD in Applied Mathematics), and Simon Camal, with a thesis on "Forecasting and optimization of ancillary services provision by renewable energy sources", from the MINES Paris Tech School, Paris Science and Letters University (PhD in Energy and Processes).
The award ceremony took place on 23 November at the Electricity Museum in Lisbon.
The 1st edition of the initiative, which had more than 50 applications, sought to reward the best Master's or Doctoral theses, promoting innovation and academic excellence in the areas of Energy.
The final jury, composed by Ana Paula Marques, Fátima Montemor, George Kariniotakis and Nikos Hatziargyriou, was responsible for the selection of the winner Theses.
About the award
The EDP Labelec Merit Award is promoted by EDP Labelec and EDP New, companies integrated in the EDP group.
The award will distinguish the best Doctoral Theses, written in Portuguese or English, on energy fields, in the themes defined below, which have been carried out (i) at any University or Institute in geographies where the EDP group operates (according to information in the most recent EDP Annual Report at the time of submission of applications) or (ii) by Portuguese people at any University or Institution, in the different branches of Engineering or Science.
Thesis' themes
- Renewable energy
- Networks
- Distributed Production and Electric Mobility
- Green Hydrogen
- Energy Storage and Flexibility
- Descarbonization
The prize to be awarded will be €20,000 (twenty thousand euros).
Who has a doctoral thesis completed and classified in the two academic years prior to the award edition:
1- Students at any University or Institute in geographies where the EDP group operates;
2- Portuguese students at any University or Institution.
AFRICA
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
ASIA
- Cambodia
- China
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Malasia
- Singapore
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- South Korea
- Macau
SOUTH AMERICA
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Peru
NORTH AMERICA
- CANADA
- USA
- MEXICO
EUROPE
- Belgium
- Spain
- France
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Poland
- Portugal
- Germany
- Netherlands
- UK
- Romania
In Portuguese or English.
The thesis must be focussed on the area of energy systems and have a relevant practical application.
It must include one of the following categories:
- Renewable energy
- Networks
- Distributed Production and Electric Mobility
- Green Hydrogen
- Energy Storage and Flexibility
- Descarbonization
Only one EDP LABELEC MERIT Prize will be awarded per edition.
The prize to be awarded will be €20,000 (twenty thousand euros).
The deadline for submitting applications is 30 March 2023.
All participants will be notified electronically about the state of their application.
The winner will be announced by 30 September 2023, at the latest.
Both the video and the thesis summary must be in English.
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