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REN Award

Created in 1995, the REN Award, one of the oldest scientific awards in Portugal, has evolved to incorporate the developments and transformations of the energy sector over the years.

It started out as a prize for the best students of networks and electrical systems to subsequently incorporate natural gas, and most recently to reach candidates coming from a wide spectrum of areas, from Engineering to Economy, Mathematics, Physics, Law, Information Systems and Computing.

The REN Award is attributed, each year, to  the best Master's theses on energy developed in Portuguese universities, and it has one clear purpose: to contribute to the development of the energy sector in Portugal and strengthen the interaction between REN and the academy in Portugal.

A jury, composed by highly reputed professionals, chaired by Professor João Peças Lopes is responsible for selecting the three Master thesis winners and, every other year, the best doctoral thesis.

Prémio REN

Applications

Open until April 30th, 2024

Announcement of the awarded theses

November 2024

REN Award 2024 Regulation

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Prizes

Prize

Master Theses

  • 1st Prize: €25.000
    2nd Prize: €15.000
    3rd Prize: €10.000

Prize

Honourable mentions

  • €2.500

    Up to three Honourable mentions may also be awarded to Master's theses.

Latest editions

Classification

Prémio

1ST PLACE AWARD

Justino Rodrigues

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

  • Doctoral Thesis:

    “Advanced Control Functionalities for Smart-Transformers Integrating Hybrid MicroGrids”
Prémio

1ST PLACE AWARD

Nuno Mendes

  • Universidade de Coimbra

  • Master Thesis:

    “Federated Learning for the Prediction of Net Energy Demand in Communities of Buildings”
Prémio

2ND PLACE AWARD

Ana Silva

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

  • Master Thesis:

    “Comportamento dinâmico de sistemas de transmissão com inércia reduzida”
Prémio

3RD PLACE AWARD

Maria Lima

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

  • Master Thesis:

    “Magneto-caloric heat pump for space heating"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Hélder Pereira

  • Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto - Instituto Politécnico de Porto

  • Master Thesis:

    "A Novel Multi-Level and Community-Based Agent Ecosystem to Support Customer´s Dynamic Decision-Making in Smart Grids"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Diogo Lavado

  • NOVA School of Science and Technology

  • Master Thesis:

    "Detection of Power Line Supporting Towers Via Interpretable Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds",

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Classification

Prémio

1st place award

Rute Rodrigues dos Santos

  • Universidade de Coimbra

  • Master Thesis

    "Development of instrumentation for measuring Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) and effect of shield wires on GIC simulations" 
Prémio

2nd place award

José Rafael Guedes de Almeida

  • Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

  • Master Thesis

    "Optimization of Aggregators Energy Resources considering Local Markets and Electric Vehicle Penetration"
Prémio

3rd place award

Francisco de Sousa Fernandes

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • Master Thesis

    "Assessment of frequency stability behaviour regarding inertia reduction due to high renewable integration in the iberian system" 
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Valdemar Abril Armindo

  • Universidade de Coimbra

  • Master Thesis

    "Diagnóstico e Análise de Avarias nos Enrolamentos Estatóricos de Um PMSM Hexafásico com Controlo Preditivo"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

José Carlos Mendes Bessa

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

  • Master Thesis

    "Otimização de estratégias de oferta em mercado usando previsão probabilística de produção renovável"

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Prémio

1st place award

Fabian Heymann

  • Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto (FEUP)

  • Doctoral Thesis

    "Technology diffusion models in power system planning and policy design"
Prémio

2nd place award

Pedro Campos Ferreira da Silva

  • Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto (FEUP)

  • Master Thesis

    "OPF Robusto"
Prémio

3rd place award

Tiago Pires de Almeida Torres

  • Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto (FEUP)

  • Master Thesis

    "Comparision between traditional network reinforcement and the use of DER flexibility"
Prémio

3rd place award

Nassir Rodrigues Cassamo

  • Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)

  • Master Thesis

    "Model Predictive Control for Wake Steering: a Koopman Dynamic Mode Decomposition Approach"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Tiago Rosário Lucas

  • Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)

  • Master Thesis

    "Feasibility of Wind Energy for Hydrogen Production: the WindFloat Atlantic case-study"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Inês Reis Gaspar

  • Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)

  • Master Thesis

    "Using energy storage systems in electricity markets"

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Prémio

1st place award

João Pedro Graça Ramos

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • Master Thesis

    "Conversão de energia de geração fotovoltaica com inércia sintética"
Prémio

2nd place award

João Pedro Megre Barbosa

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • Master Thesis

    "Fast Assessment of Dynamic Behaviour Analysis with Evaluation of Minimum Synchronous Inertia to Improve Dynamic Security in Islanded Power Systems"
Prémio

3rd place award

Luís Miguel Teixeira

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • Master Thesis

    "Missing Signal Appraising in Globally Optimized Networks"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Sérgio Miguel da Silva Coelho

  • Universidade do Minho

  • Master Thesis

    "Desenvolvimento de um Micro-Inversor para Sistemas de Energias Renováveis em Micro-Redes Distribuídas"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Tiago Poças de Almeida

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • Master Thesis

    "Coordinated Operation of Electric Vehicle Solar Parking Lot as a Virtual Power Plant"

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Classification

Prémio

1st place award

Nuno Gonçalo dos Santos Soares

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • Master Thesis

    "Optimal Demand Response Program for Flexible Ramp Markets"

Prémio

2nd place award

Diogo André Cerqueira Pinto Bezerra Varajão*

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • Doctoral Thesis

    "Single-stage, Bidirectional AC-DC Matrix Converter for Energy Storage Systems"

    *By disqualification of the Paper entitled “Decision Support for the Strategic Behaviour of Electricity Market application”, the 1st prize was awarded by the Jury to the eligible work with the best rating.
    Jury REN´s Award
Prémio

3rd place award

Guilherme Paraíso

  • Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)

  • Master Thesis

    "Design of Control Strategies for Low Voltage DC Residential Grids"
Prémio

3rd place award

Cláudio Pinto dos Santos

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • Master Thesis

    "Dynamic Distribution System Reconfiguration to Improve System Reliability Considering Renewables and Energy Storage"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Vasco Miguel Agante Campos

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • Master Thesis

    "Metodologia Híbrida para a Previsão dos Preços do Mercado Elétrico com Integração Renovável"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

João Pedro Pereira Carvalho

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • Master Thesis

    "Using Renewable-Based Microgrid Capabilities for Power System Restoration"

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Classification

Prémio

1st place award

Gabriel da Silva Garanito Maciel

  • IST

  • "Desenvolvimento e Projeto Mecânico de uma Fundação para uma Turbina Eólica Offshore"
Prémio

2nd place award

Pedro Andresen Portella Sarmento de Beires

  • FEUP

  • "O papel das centrais hídricas reversíveis face ao aumento dos volumes de integração de produção de origem renovável em sistemas elétricos isolados"
Prémio

3rd place award

Fábio José Correia de Brito

  • FEUP

  • "Simulação de Estratégias de Operação Agregada de Sistemas de Armazenamento Distribuídos em Parques Eólicos e Centrais Fotovoltaicas"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

João Pedro Anselmo Espírito Santo

  • FEUP

  • "Prolongamento da Vida Útil de um Transformador através do Agendamento do Carregamento de Veículos Elétricos numa Unidade Industrial Insular com Microgeração Fotovoltaica"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

João Paulo Soares Anjo

  • IST

  • "Assessing the impact of Demand Response in the Portuguese Electric System"

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Classification

Prémio

1st place award

Bruna Daniela Costa Tavares

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • "Sensory fusion applied to power system state estimation considering information theory concepts"
Prémio

2nd place award

Rui Filipe Mirra dos Santos

  • Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)

  • "Nonlinear Economic Model Predictive Control For Energy Management of Smart Buildings"
Prémio

3rd place award

José Miguel Gomes Campos Costa

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto ( FEUP)

  • "Microgrid Reliability Assessment"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Ricardo Jorge de Lima Capão

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • "Avaliação Rápida de Sobrecargas Pós-Contingência em Ramos de Sistemas Elétricos Interligados"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Luís Acácio Mendes Marques

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • "Detection and Location of Non-Technical Losses In Low Voltage Distribution Networks"

Classification

Prémio

1st place award

Pedro Saraiva de Carvalho Morais de Castro

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • "Participation of Wind Generation in Balancing Reserve Markets"
Prémio

2nd place award

Jorge Miguel Pérola Filipe

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • "Optimization Strategies for Pump-Hydro Storage and Wind Farm Coordination Including Wind Power Uncertainty "
Prémio

3rd place award

André Carvalho da Silva

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • "Utilização de Sistemas de Armazenamento de Energia para Melhoria das Condições de Estabilidade de Redes Isoladas"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Miguel Fontes Medeiros

  • Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)

  • "Distribution System Reconfiguration Considering Smart-Grid Enabling Technologies"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

José Miguel Rodrigues Gouveia

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • "Participação de redes HVDC nos serviços de Regulação de Frequência"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Renata Filipa Morais Martins

  • Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)

  • "Decision-Making Under Uncertainty for Market Bidding Strategies of Wind and Photovoltaic Technologies"

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Classification

Prémio

1st place award

João Pedro Vasques Vieira da Silva

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • "Definition of Maintenance Polícies in Power Systems"
Prémio

2nd place award

Rui Filipe Carneiro Barbosa Pinto

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • "Wind Power Forecasting Uncertainty and Unit Commitment"
Prémio

3rd place award

Sérgio Fonseca Santos

  • Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)

  • "Nova Metodologia Multiobjectivo de Apoio à Decisão para Problemas de Reconfiguração de Sistemas de Distribuição de Energia Eléctrica "
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Hugo Alexandre Fernandes dos Santos e Silva

  • Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL)

  • "Planeamento de Curto Prazo de Sistemas de Energia Solar Usando Técnicas de Otimização Robusta"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Elisabete Faria Almeida

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • "Real-time Closed-Loop Test to Adaptive Protection in a Smart-Grid Context"

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Classification

Prémio

1st place award

Tiago André Teixeira Soares

  • Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP)

  • "Electricity Markets Modeling Considering Complex Contracts and Aggregators"
Prémio

2nd place award

Luís Carlos Rodrigues Júnior

  • Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL)

  • "Integração de fontes renováveis no sistema eléctrico através de Centrais Renováveis Virtuais"
Prémio

3rd place award

Luís Filipe de Oliveira Gomes

  • Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP)

  • "GAIC: Um sistema inteligente e flexível para simulação e apoio à participação de pequenos e médios consumidores na gestão ativa de cargas no âmbito de smart grids"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Rodrigo Manuel Marinho Pires

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • "Estratégias de reposição de serviço em sistemas HVDC com interligação a parques eólicos offshore"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Jorge Miguel da Silva Gonçalves

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

  • "Desempenho dos Sistemas de Proteções na Vizinhança de Ligações de Corrente Contínua em Alta Tensão"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Marco Filipe Matos da Fonseca

  • Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL)

  • "Integrating Wind Generation in the Distribution Network"

Classification

Prémio

1st place award

Tiago Marques Félix Castelhano

  • IST

  • "Projecto de Terras em Subestações"
Prémio

2nd place award

Tiago Manuel Campelos Ferreira Pinto

  • ISEP

  • "Adaptive Learning in Agents Behavior: A Framework for Electricity Markets Simulation"
Prémio

3rd place award

David Miguel Mendes Cerdeira

  • IST

  • "Configurind an IEC 61850 Based Standard Automation System for a Standard HV/MV Distribution Substation"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Rui Filipe das Neves Parreira

  • IST

  • "Implementação Normalizada de Automatismos de Subestações de Energia Especificados por Redes de Petri"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

João André Pinto Soares

  • ISEP

  • "Modified Particle Swarm Optimization for Day-Ahead Distributed Energy Resources Scheduling Including Vehicle-to-Grid"

Classification

Prémio

1st place award

Pedro Miguel Pereira Mendes

  • IST

  • "Wind Parks and Hydro Pumping Plants Coordinates Operation"
Prémio

2nd place award

Miguel Alecandre Ferreira Santos

  • IST

  • "Estudo do comportamento dinâmico da rede nacional de transporte de gás natural"
Prémio

3rd place award

João Mouro das Neves Rocha

  • FEUP

  • "Optimização de despacho económico integrando previsão de variabilidade de produção hídrica, eólica e solar"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Susana Galrão Domingos Ludovico

  • IST

  • "Grid Codes Isolated Systems"
Prémio

HONOURABLE MENTION

Anabela Rodrigues Ribeiro

  • FEUP

  • "Coordenação do Sistema de Protecção numa Rede de Média Tensão com Elevada Penetração de Geração Eólica"

Jury President

João Peças Lopes

CV
PDF 198.99 KB

Other Jury Members

Albertino Meneses

CV
PDF 462.4 KB

Anibal Santos

CV
PDF 225.14 KB

Jorge Vasconcelos

CV
PDF 197.1 KB

Luís Ferreira

CV
PDF 367.08 KB

Manuel Matos

CV
PDF 192.41 KB

Maria José Clara

CV
PDF 196.37 KB

Miguel Moreira da Silva

CV
PDF 195.08 KB

Paulo Ferrão

CV
PDF 132.32 KB

Patrícia Pereira da Silva

CV
PDF 283.28 KB

Susana Costa

CV
PDF 445.14 KB

Susana Ludovino

CV
PDF 177.31 KB

Zita Vale

CV
PDF 195.4 KB
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