INESC TEC researcher receives IEEE award

Jean Sumaili, researcher at INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE), has received the 2010 award for best PhD dissertation on Power Systems presented at an Italian university. The IEEE PES Italian Chapter 2010 Best PhD Thesis in Power Engineering AWARD was awarded to the dissertation “Current Decomposition-Based Loss Partitioning and Loss Allocation in Distribution Systems”.

According to the researcher, the thesis on electric power distribution presents “a new methodology based on the structure of the distribution system that will assign a responsibility to each actor, whether a generator or a consumer, in terms of [technical] losses”. Jean Sumaili adds that “the results send correct economic signals to the market in order to penalise the elements that increase losses and reward those that reduce them”.

According to Jean Sumaili, the IEEE award is an “official acknowledgement of my work by the scientific community”. Furthermore, the USE researcher, a Congo national, believes that “the jury wanted to value my European path as I’ve stayed both at INESC Porto and at the University of Manchester”, he states.

Jean Sumaili concluded his PhD in 2008 at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. The researcher received his award from the president of the IEEE PES (Power & Energy Society), Miroslav Begovic, on 5 June 2013 in Padova, Italy.

The INESC TEC researcher mentioned in this article are associated with the following partner institutions: INESC Porto.