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).
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 2008, 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 define a technique for automatic validation of the post-operational data of hydroelectric generator units to improve operation’s decision support models of Duke Energy.
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.
In 2006, Marcos Leone Filho (Venidera’s co-founder) actively participated in this research and development project which goal was to develop an optimization model for improving CTEEP’s transformers tap changing operation in order to minimize with voltages drops during peak demand hours.
In 2004, André Emilio Toscano (Venidera’s co-founder) was part of the team (intern) in this research and development project which goal was to evaluate the Unicamp’s chain of optimization models for hydrothermal coordination applied for efficient scheduling in the Brazilian National Interconnected System (SIN).
