Next Monday, March 18, PSR will hold a round table, with live broadcast open to the public, on the challenges of planning the operation and expansion of electrical systems with high penetration of renewable energy. The debate, which will feature the participation of executives from PSR, the electricity market and academia, is part of the opening of the Encuentro Latinoamericano de Usuarios da PSR (ELAU) 2024, an event that brings together users of computational tools developed by PSR and which will take place between March 18 and 22, in Panama City.

The round table, which will start at 11am (Brasília time), will be broadcast live on the PSR YouTube channel and will feature Mario Veiga, founder and director of Innovation at PSR, Luiz Barroso, CEO of PSR, Ricardo Mota , general director of the National Energy Control Center (CENACE) of Mexico, and Rodrigo Moreno, professor at the University of Chile and researcher at Imperial College London, mediated by Raphael Chabar, executive director of PSR.

A partnership between the CIER Regional Committee for Central America and the Caribbean (CECACIER) and PSR, ELAU 2024 will be an opportunity to explore new features and applications of PSR software, in addition to ongoing innovations. It will also be a time to interact with PSR experts on relevant topics in the electric power industry and the state of the art of the company’s computational models.

At ELAU 2024, it will be possible to learn about the latest developments in PSR tools, especially the medium and long-term operation planning (SDDP), expansion planning (OptGen) and short-term dispatch (NCP) models, in addition to tools for generating scenarios for renewable sources, such as the Time Series Lab (TSL).

Find out more about ELAU 2024 on the website: https://elau2024.psr-inc.com/

Learn more about the roundtable participants:

• Mario Veiga is the founder and current director of Innovation (CINO) at PSR. He is the creator of the Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming (SDDP) algorithm, used in dozens of countries to optimize energy systems. He is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. In 2021, he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

 

• Luiz Barroso is CEO of PSR. From 2016 to 2018, he was CEO of the Energy Research Company (EPE), a state-owned company responsible for energy planning studies that support the Brazilian government’s energy policy decisions. In 2018, he was a visitor at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in France. Since 2013 he has been an associate researcher at the Technological Research Institute (IIT) at the University of Comillas in Madrid, Spain. In 2010, he received the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) and in 2020 he was named a fellow of the IEEE.

 

• Raphael Chabar is executive director of PSR, simultaneously holding the positions of COO, CTO and CFO, in addition to being the general technical and commercial coordinator for the company’s teams and areas of computational models applied to the energy sector. With more than 20 years of experience, he leads the training and support front for PSR users, having worked as an instructor in courses in more than 35 countries on all continents. His expertise includes large-scale, time-coupled, optimal dispatch planning under uncertainty for horizons ranging from day-ahead to decades, as well as risk management in the energy sector. With a proven track record in the energy industry, its main technical areas of activity and interest are Stochastic Optimization, Statistical Modeling and Monte Carlo Simulation.

 

• Ricardo Mota Palomino has been general director of the National Energy Control Center (CENACE) of Mexico, since 2021. Between 2018 and 2020, he was responsible for the Electrical Engineering Specialty Committee of the Mexican Academy of Engineering. Between 2002 and 2004 he was president of the IEEE Mexico Section. He has 187 publications in national and international journals in the area of electrical engineering, and supervised 73 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral theses on the subject.

 

• Rodrigo Moreno is a professor in the department of Electrical Engineering (DIE) at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Chile (FCFM) and an associate researcher in the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. He is also a leading researcher in the energy group at the Complex Engineering Systems Institute (ISCI), based at the University of Chile, and coordinator of the Dual PhD Program in Electrical Engineering, between the University of Chile and the University of Manchester.