The rector of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Julián Garde, and the general director of CIRCE -Technological Center-, Andrés Llombart, have signed a framework agreement for collaboration, through which both institutions will collaborate in activities within the field of research and technological development; innovation and digital transformation; industrial and business development; training, academic and labor orientation; cultural and academic fields; sports and leisure activities; internships; and bibliographic funds. The first action has been the preparation of a doctoral thesis.
This agreement is oriented towards the Institute of Research in Renewable Energies (IER), a technological center specialized in applied research, development and promotion of renewable energies, which has a team of highly technically qualified professionals and has state-of-the-art technological infrastructures, made available for projects, both public and private funding, in the national and international fields.
The doctoral thesis of Natalia Lapuente Gracia, a researcher at CIRCE, has marked the beginning of activities within the new agreement. Her study focuses on the creation of synthetic data series to establish various operational scenarios in the transport network.
This work, framed in the Doctoral Program in Applied Sciences and Technologies to Industrial Engineering of the UCLM, is directed by doctors Andrés Llombart Estopiñán and Emilio Gómez Lázaro, director of the IER, and is included within the problem of energy spill (Curtailment), which is defined as “energy not injected into the network to preserve the safe operation of the system”.
The research has a direct relationship with the definition of the National Integrated Plan for Energy and Climate (PNIEC), whose update is expected to be approved this year 2024. In this regard, as they point out, “it is important to establish reference scenarios to determine the available access capacity and the operation of the system, also taking into account the short-term pace of renewable development, demand growth and infrastructure availability”.
The University of Castilla-La Mancha has among its objectives the creation, development, transmission and criticism of science, technique and culture, as well as scientific and technical support for cultural, social and economic development, putting all its informative and scientific capacity at the service of the community.
CIRCE is a technological center founded in 1993, based in Zaragoza, which seeks to provide innovative solutions for sustainable development. For this, they have a multidisciplinary team of almost 300 people, highly qualified, who work to improve the competitiveness of companies through the generation of technology transfer through R&D+i activities and market-oriented training within the field of sustainability and efficiency of resources, energy networks and renewable energies.
This agreement will have a validity of four years extendable if so estimated by the signing parties.
UCLM Communication Office.
Albacete, April 26, 2024