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Objectives:

- To support the transition to reliable, smart, sustainable and competitive energy systems;

- To develop more efficient products and processes from the point of view of the use of energy resources, including renewables;

- To promote energy efficiency in the transport (responsible for about one third of the energy consumed at the national level ), residential, industrial and agricultural sectors;

- To promote the diversification of energy sources, aiming to promote more efficient and cleaner sources;

- To contribute to the change of energy consumption patterns in Portugal, either by reducing energy consumption and promoting energy efficiency by diversifying low carbon energy sources, involving the public sector, companies in general and those relevant to the transport sector, and even citizens.

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Projects:

- PROBIOENER: integrated action for the promotion and implementation of energy efficiency and renewable energy as a competitive factor.
 
- Total isomerization process based on zeolite membranes for increased octane index  in gasoline.

- Woody biomass for energy production: developing sustainable systems of supply of goods and production, regulation and preservation services.

- StDM: Environmental stochastic-dynamic methodology for wind farms.

- Characterization study of wind power potential in Northern Portugal for energy purposes.

- New public lighting control systems.

- InovEnergy: energy efficiency in the agro-industrial sector.

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Researcher Profiles:

(If you are a researcher at IPB and would like to publish a profile please contact the Research Support Office) 

Topics	Target Sectors/Organisations
Bioclimatic solutions on traditional architecture. Buildings energetic performance. Rehabilitation and maintenance for bioconstructive diversity. Analysis of the Bioclimatic constructive solutions on traditional buildings and its future integration on contemporary construction techniques.+INFO.	Construction companies.
Intelligent and adaptive complex cyber-physical systems: the application of distributed artificial intelligence systems, such as multi-agent systems allows to introduce some important and demanding features in large-scale complex engineering problems, such as flexibility, robustness, reconfigurability, adaptation and responsiveness. These approaches shift the control paradigm from typical centralized approaches, which are no longer enough to address the requirements imposed by emergent and global environments, to an alternative way to design such systems based on the decentralization and self-organization of individual intelligent and self-adaptive entities. +INFO.	Manufacturing; Smart grids, Logistics; Automation; Robotics.
Intelligent systems on a chip: creating intelligent algorithmic solutions suitable to run on inexpensive microprocessors. This approach allows us to develop standalone devices that show intelligent behaviours and help in the daily tasks, saving energy or giving support to the elderly people. +INFO.	Health sector; Electric power companies; Communication companies.
Performance assessments, data mining, data analysis and statistic methods and demand planning. +INFO.	Health; Retail; Energy; Mobility; Manufacturing.