The IRIS project aims to address questions related to the massive penetration of intermittent power sources (such as wind and solar) into the Brazilian grid, covering aspects ranging from electrical and operational issues to regulatory improvements to cope with this new scenario.
The IRIS project counts with the support of federal agencies and institutes such as EPE (governmental research company), ANEEL (local regulator) and ONS (local ISO).
Venidera participated in the project helping main executors (Unicamp and Prinsis) to build a model and a decision support system to help CTEEP improve the reliability of its transmission system. Moreover, one other decision support system was built to help CTEEP track down and predictively act in order to minimize transmission line failures. This system is being used by CTEEP since then.
Beginning in 2010, Venidera worked together with a research team from the Faculty of Civil Engineering (Unicamp) to develop a model and a decision support systems for optimizing the dispatch decisions of turning on and off individual generators with the goal of maximizing production (and, consequently, reducing the water consumption). Results were outstanding and also published in many websites and journals, such as:
While Ph.D. researchers, Marcos Leone Filho (Venidera’s co-founder), André Toscano (Venidera’s co-founder) and Makoto Kadowaki (Venidera’s team member) actively contributed in this project helping to build a non-linear deterministic optimization model for the Brazilian National Interconnected System. The goal of this model was to provide individualized optimization dispatch decisions for planning the Brazilian generation system. Moreover, parallel computing and a computer cluster were used to cope with the huge processing times of this model.
In 2010, Makoto Kadowaki actively contributed in this R&D project while he was a Ph.D. researcher at Unicamp. In this occasion, a dynamic programming optimization model was developed in order to optimize the dispatch of some of EDP’s small hydroelectric units.
In 2010, Venidera contributed in this R&D project helping to develop a model and a web-based decision support system to rank AES Eletropaulo most critical processes taking into consideration the compromise of investing money to mitigate the possible non-qualities identified in some processes compared to the benefits of eliminating the corresponding non-qualities to the company as whole.
In 2010, Venidera contributed in this R&D project helping to develop a model and a software for optimizing EDP Bandeirante R&D projects portfolio. This innovative tool goal was to help EDP Bandeirante in finding better projects and partners for R&D projects.
In 2007, André Emilio Toscano (Venidera’s co-founder) and Makoto Kadowaki (Venidera’s team member) actively participated in the implementation of this research and development project which goal was to implement a decision support system for the optimal dispatch schedule of CESP’s hydroelectric generating units.
In 2007, André Emilio Toscano (Venidera’s co-founder) and Makoto Kadowaki (Venidera’s team member) actively participated in the implementation of this research and development project that aimed to produce revenue short term forecasts using a computational system to forecast the hydroelectric generation dispatch for the plants of the SIN (Brazilian National Interconnected Electric System) by load levels on weekly basis integrated with the CESP’s corporate management system.
