Dr. Luiz Barroso of PSR Energy Consulting and Analytics

The objective of this workshop is to discuss the interplay between hydropower and renewables, under a market design and modeling perspectives. We will mostly discuss what will (and should) be the role of hydro power in a renewable dominated market and how will market design and regulation enable or interfere with this development. A modeling and policy-oriented approach, based on practical experience from the industry, will be deployed.

 Main topics to be discussed:

• Hydropower as an enabler of the energy transition and renewable integration in electricity markets and the hydro renaissance
• Hydro development 2.0: planning new hydros with sustainability requirements
• Hydroscheduling in electricity markets
• Multi-stage decision making for storage in a probabilistic framework: the SDDP algorithm
• SDDP: from theory to practice - international experience, calibrating & validating models, probabilistic forecasting of renewable resources (inflows, wind & solar resources)
• Electricity Market Design and Hydropower: Transmission planning and energy auctions to integrate RES
• Role of hydro in integrating renewables
• International perspective on how different markets, regional generation portfolio, and water laws are influencing their model development: the hydroscheduling & the electricity market 2.0.

Biography:

Luiz Barroso is the CEO of PSR Energy Consulting and Analytics. From 2016 to 2018 he was the CEO of the Energy Research Office (EPE), a government company connected to the Ministry of Energy that runs all the energy planning studies in the country to support its energy policy decisions. In 2018 he was also a visitor in the International Energy Agency (IEA) in France working in the IEA’s Clean Energy Transitions Program, a new multi-year, EUR 30 million plan backed by 13 countries to support clean energy transitions around the world. Before joining EPE he was a partner and managing director at PSR, where he worked for 17 years, coordinating studies on power-gas systems planning, economics, operation, risk management and market design in about 30 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He is also a research affiliate of Comillas Pontifical University’s Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) and a lecturer in Summer School of Regulation (FSR) of Energy Utilities, in Florence, Italy. He is a past Associated Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids. He chairs the Power Systems Operations, Planning and Economics Committee of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), where he is a senior member. He was the recipient of the 2010 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award. He was the Brazilian member of the C5 SC on electricity markets and regulations where he was also part of its steering committee. He graduated in mathematics and received in 2006 the PhD degree in operations research from COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil.

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