Power system reliability; Electricity market modeling; Power systems operation; Power system planning; Renewable energy; Renewable energy integration; Operations research; Statistics; Uncertainty modeling

The researcher teaches one undergraduate and two graduate courses per semester. In the graduate courses, he always gives students tasks somehow related to his research. Also, he has advised or co-advised 5 undergraduate and 5 Master's students, and is currently advising 1 undergraduate and 4 Master's students more on their Thesis. Of them, all but one are working on topics directly related to his lines of research. Furthermore, the researcher hired and is currently training 3 first and second-year electrical engineering students with remarkable mathematical abilities to work as assistants on his research projects.

Chilean society and the media have been quite concerned about new generation and transmission projects and the impact they may (or may not) have on the environment and in future electric energy prices. Thus, it is expected that the researcher's findings will certainly be of interest to researchers and society in general.
In the last 3 years, the researcher has been actively researching about wind and solar power integration to the Chilean interconnected systems and how to incorporate uncertainty into our operational and planning models. One of his projects was an applied research initiative with Transelec (Chile's main transmission company) under their RET (Red de Estudios de Transmisión) initiative. The project was aimed at applying stochastic programming to address hydro uncertainty on generation and transmission capacity expansion planning in the Chilean Central Interconnected system. Two other research projects dealt with integration of wind and solar energy and the impact of their uncertainty on the Chilean interconnected systems reliability. All of these projects have been conducted with their applicability to the Chilean Interconnected systems in mind, with input from Chilean electric industry, and the results have been disseminated among industry partners. The use of both Chilean interconnected power systems for modeling will make the research results suitable for dissemination in the Chilean context.