Rodrigo Andrés Moreno Vieyra
Académico
Universidad Adolfo Ibánez
Santiago, Chile
Power system optimization; power system planning and energy policy; power system economics and reliability; renewable energy and smart grid.
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Power Systems, IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE. Reino Unido, 2012
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Engineering Sciences, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2005
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Civil Engineer of Industry with Major in Electrical Engineering, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2005
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Engineering Sciences , PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2003
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Académico Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
Chile
2013 - 2026
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Research Associate Part Time
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE
Reino Unido
2012 - A la fecha
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Research Assistant Full Time
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE
Reino Unido
2011 - 2012
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Assistant/Instructor Professor Part Time
UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ
Chile
2007 - 2007
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Assistant/Instructor Professor Part Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Chile
2004 - 2005
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Académico Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias
Chile
2026 - A la fecha
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Analyst and Project Leader Full Time
Systep Engineering and Design
Chile
2004 - 2007
Since 2014 Dr Moreno has directly supervised 62 theses in power systems engineering at the University of Chile (https://sites.google.com/site/rmorenov/students).
PhD students at University of Chile
Alex Villamarín Jácome, PhD, Probabilistic modeling of simultaneous failures for power system resilience and network expansion planning, 2025
Miguel Sánchez López, PhD, Residential energy consumption across socioeconomic backgrounds adapting to disruptive events and distributed energy resources integration in power networks, 2025 (co-advised with Robin Preece and Eduardo Martínez Cesena, joint with The University of Manchester)
Aramis Pérez Mora, PhD, Effect of temperature-Dependent degradation models for lithium-ion storage devices on optimized multiservice portfolio strategies, 2018 (co-advised with Marcos Orchard Concha)
MSc students at University of Chile
Daniel Maniega Goiri, BSc/MSc, (In)efectividad del mecanismo de pagos por capacidad en sistemas eléctricos con alta penetración renovable, 2025
María José Alfaro Herrera, BSc/MSc, Equivalentes reducidos de redes eléctricas obtenidos mediante modelos de optimización, 2025
Diego González Donoso, BSc/MSc, Análisis de la coordinación hidro-térmica del sistema eléctrico nacional en el contexto de crisis hídrica, 2025
Cristóbal Mujica Sazo, BSc/MSc, Ubicación óptima de recursos de generación con capacidad de partida autónoma, 2025
Luis Álvarez Valdés, BSc/MSc, Metodología para determinar la contribución a la suficiencia de las baterías mediante modelos probabilísticos, 2024
Alonso Martínez Valdivia, BSc/MSc, Co-optimización del despacho económico y la logística del combustible diésel con el objetivo de mitigar el riesgo de racionamiento por desabastecimiento, 2024
María José Aranda Godoy, BSc/MSc, Modelo de probabilidad de ignición de incendios forestales producidos por líneas eléctricas, 2024
Melissa Alé Martínez, BSc/MSc, Resilient planning of the New Zealand power system in light of hydrogen integration through the Remix-Nz energy optimization framework, 2024
Rodrigo Vidal Carrasco, BSc/MSc, Operación óptima de sistemas de almacenamiento basada en SDDP con representación Markoviana de la incertidumbre de precios de la energía, 2024
Pablo Apablaza Donoso, BSc/MSc, Integrated power system expansion planning with distributed energy resources under deep uncertainty, 2024
Diland Castro Castro, BSc/MSc, Efecto del impuesto a las emisiones de CO2, en la expansión del sistema eléctrico nacional considerando restricciones operativas, almacenamiento e incertidumbre de renovables, 2023
Daniel Águila Soto, BSc/MSc, Expansión del sistema eléctrico bajo incertidumbres económicas, políticas y generación distribuida, 2023
Karin Sánchez López, BSc/MSc, Metodología para la planificación conjunta de la generación y transmisión mediante un modelo de optimización trinivel de dos etapas y estocástico, 2023 (co-advised with Diego Alvarado Lazo)
Diego Heinrich Rojas, BSc/MSc, Portafolio de inversiones para la planificación confiable de redes eléctricas de distribución mediante flujos de potencia AC lineales, 2023
Claudio Silva Bustamante, BSc/MSc, Planificación de la expansión de la transmisión eléctrica reduciendo la desigualdad en la distribución de la calidad de suministro, 2023
Carlos Sepúlveda Huerta, MSc, Parque óptimo de generación considerando riesgos en la cadena de suministro de combustibles, 2022
José Ponce Ramírez, BSc/MSc, Expansión óptima de la generación eléctrica ante la descarbonización, la sequía y la limitación del uso de suelo eólico Análisis del rol de la geotermia en Chile, 2022 (co-advised with Juvenal Letelier Villalón)
Teresa Vargas Vergara, BSc/MSc, Modelos de estimación de potencia firme en contextos de descarbonización en base a programación estocástica, 2022
Catalina Gamboa Mora, BSc/MSc, Análisis de diseño y operación óptima de plantas de electricidad e hidrógeno verde en el Norte de Chile, 2022
Luis Miguel Ramírez Cáceres, MSc, Enrutamiento óptimo de líneas de transmisión considerando criterios socio-ambientales y técnicos, 2022
Felipe Sepúlveda Sepúlveda, MSc, Política de energización para ataques del sistema de transmisión considerando incertidumbre, 2022 (co-advised with Fernando Ordoñez Pizarro)
Claudio Carvallo Caro, BSc/MSc, Integrando la planificación de los sistemas de electricidad, calor e hidrógeno para descarbonizar y descontaminar zonas dependientes del uso de leña El caso de Aysén, en Chile, 2022
Bryan Foden Fournies, BSc/MSc, A two-stage modeling framework for the optimal utilization of load flexibility in energy and reserve markets, 2021
Daniel Rivera Muñoz, BSc/MSc, Inversión en redes de transmisión considerando fallas en cascada y seguridad probabilística, 2021
Bastián Moya Ureta, BSc/MSc, Co-optimizing network, pumped and battery storage investments under long term uncertainties A case study on australian power system, 2020
Andrés Chávez Enríquez, MSc, Portafolios tecnológicos para el diseño confiable y resiliente de redes de distribución utilizando flujos lineales AC aplicación a vientos extremos, 2020
Alex Villamarín Jácome, MSc, Planificación cuasi-óptima de equipos de compensación reactiva para redes resilientes ante eventos sísmicos, 2020
Jefferson Haro Vaca, MSc, Efectos de distintos esquemas tarifarios de transmisión eléctrica en el desarrollo futuro de un sistema eléctrico bajo en carbono, 2020 (co-advised with Dimitrios Papadaskalopoulos)
Elías Valenzuela Gallegos, BSc/MSc, Network hosting capacity for renewables an economic approach through bilevel optimization, 2019 (co-advised with Dimitrios Papadaskalopoulos)
Héctor Otárola Garcés, BSc/MSc, Co-optimising network and storage systems investments through stochastic optimisation via column generation algorithms, 2019
Lucas Neira Martelli, BSc/MSc, Algoritmo de clusterización y descomposición de benders para la planificación de la transmisión con seguridad estocástica y condiciones climáticas extremas, 2019
Diego Alvarado Lazo, BSc/MSc, Reliable and resilient network design with distributionally robust optimization, 2019
Felipe González Venegas, MSc, Optimal take-or-pay Lng Supply for hydrothermal electricity systems, 2016
BSc students at University of Chile
Valentina Alarcón Merino, BSc, Diseño de una planta híbrida renovable con almacenamiento, 2023
Constanza Bustamante Morales, BSc, Análisis de la eficiencia de la equidad tarifaria, 2022
Eduardo Retamal Saavedra, BSc, Planificación energética con implementación de producción y consumo de hidrógeno, 2021 (co-advised with Eduardo Andrés Pereira Bonvallet)
Javier Jara Garrido, BSc, Análisis de equilibrio de mercado ante distintos esquemas tarifarios para remunerar la transmisión, 2020
Diego Guiraldes Deck, BSc, Segmentación y caracterización de clientes libres del Sistema Eléctrico Nacional para modelar demanda flexible, 2020
Camilo Zamorano Olivares, BSc, Planificación de sistemas eléctricos frente a terremotos beneficios del almacenamiento de energía en la resiliencia del sistema, 2019
Iván Zimmermann Rodríguez-Peña, BSc, Expansión de las interconexiones internacionales considerando incentivos económicos conflictivos entre países, 2019
Cristóbal Cruz Lathrop, BSc, Operación y planificación resiliente de redes de transmisión eléctrica, 2018
Hugo Godoy Valle, BSc, Planificación confiable de un sistema eléctrico 100% renovable en Chile, 2017
Sergio Zúñiga León, BSc, Estrategias de despacho de una planta de concentración solar térmica con almacenamiento, 2017
Javier De La Fuente Arce, BSc, Estrategias de contratación óptima para centrales hidráulicas de pasada, 2017
Enrique Marín Molina, BSc, Análisis de estrategias de despacho de una central fotovoltaica con almacenamiento a través de bombeo hidráulico con agua de mar, 2017
Francisco Latorre Carvajal, BSc, Localización óptima de FACTS y líneas de transmisión para futuros escenarios de generación en el sistema eléctrico chileno, 2017
Ricardo Hunt Penna, BSc, Análisis e implementación del modelo de line switching en el sistema eléctrico chileno, 2017
Pedro Rojas Olate, BSc, Evaluación de riesgo de distintos esquemas contractuales de suministro de energía para generación renovable no convencional, 2017
Fernando Llaitul Sánchez, BSc, Análisis de la implementación de equipos FACTS en la operación económica del sistema eléctrico nacional bajo escenarios de desarrollo de energías renovables, 2017
Víctor Puente Montero, BSc, Características de la representación pseudo-espectral de Chebyshev en la modelación de sistemas eléctricos en el contexto chileno, 2017
Carlos Sepúlveda Huerta, BSc, Operación económica de una micro-red con restricciones de estabilidad, 2016
Michel Soudre Donoso, BSc, Optimización probabilística de portafolios de tecnología convencional e inteligente para el diseño robusto de una subestación primaria de distribución, 2016
Jonathan Monsalve Reyes, BSc, Evaluación del beneficio de una unidad de almacenamiento por bombeo en Colbún bajo requerimientos de riego, 2016
Carlos Matamala Vergara, BSc, Márgenes de reserva en redes de transmisión e interconexiones para facilitar la integración de generación renovable, 2015
Sebastián Aldea Erices, BSc, Flujo de carga óptimo estocástico con estabilidad transitoria para el estudio de la operación de la red de transmisión con nuevas tecnologías de control, 2015
Felipe Zuloaga Royo, BSc, Modelos de optimización para la operación eficiente de sistemas eléctricos de potencia bajo criterios probabilísticos y determinísticos de seguridad de suministro, 2015
Felipe Riquelme Larenas, BSc, Filtros de contingencias en transmisión para problema de flujo de potencia óptimo con restricciones de seguridad, 2015
Nicolás Cáceres Lagos, BSc, Aplicaciones de la representación pseudo-espectral de chebyshev a la modelación y operación de sistemas energéticos, 2015 (co-advised with Marcelo Matus Acuña)
PhD students co-supervised at Imperial College London
He has also been the co-supervisor of 5 PhD students in Imperial College London:
Roberto Moreira, Imperial College, PhD 2016, Business Models for Energy Storage
Yanfei Chen, Imperial College, PhD 2017, Coordination Strategies for Securing AC/DC Flexible Transmission Networks with Renewables
Alex Moreira, Imperial College, PhD current, A Five-Level MILP Model for Flexible Transmission Network Planning under Uncertainty: A Min-Max Regret Approach
Yijun Li, Imperial College, PhD current, Co-optimisation of transmission and generation assets through bi-level models
Magnus Jamieson, PhD current, Resilience against heavy wind and storms in the GB system
Junior researchers and postdocs
Through his various research projects, especially his Fondef and Newton-Picarte (PCI) projects, Dr. Moreno has directly supervised and worked with more than 10 junior researchers (including 2 postdocs) who has being successfully trained in advanced modelling and applied research.
Teaching
Additionally, Dr. Moreno regularly teaches undergraduate courses, postgraduate courses and diplomas at the University of Chile, including:
For undergraduate and postgraduate students
EL7047 - Riesgo y Confiabilidad en Sistemas Eléctricos (Risk and Reliability in Electrical Energy Systems)
EL3003 - Laboratorio de Ingeniería Eléctrica (Electrical Engineering Lab)
EL5203 - Laboratorio de Energía (Energy Lab)
For government and industry
ECODIE1 - Diplomado de Coordinación de Sistemas Eléctricos Hidrotérmicos e Integración de Energías Renovables (Diploma in Hydrothermal Scheduling and Renewable Energy)
ECODIE2 - Especialización en El Mercado Eléctrico y el Rol del Gas Natural (Specialization in Electricity and Gas Markets)
ECODIE3 - Diplomado en Liderazgo y Gestión en Mercados Eléctricos (Diploma in Electricity Markets Management)
(see more details in: https://sites.google.com/site/rmorenov/teaching)
Conclusions derived from Dr. Moreno’s research have served to a wide community of private and public agents in the power and energy sector. So far, Dr. Moreno has published 23 ISI journal papers whose findings have been instrumental in more than 30 applied research projects, funded directly by industry and governments. Further, Dr. Moreno has participated in a number of research projects for institutions like Conicyt (a Chilean research council), EPSRC (a British research council), EPRI, Fraunhofer, European Commission, UK and Chilean Governments, World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. He has also participated in various industry projects for regulatory bodies, system operators, and electricity and gas companies in EU and the Americas.
All these projects have been selected and undertaken because of their high societal value. Some of these include:
- The design of the energy policy/energy roadmap in Chile, the so-called Energía 2050 initiative
- The design of the long-term planning process of electricity systems in Chile, the so-called PELP process (Planificación Eléctrica de Largo Plazo)
- The design of the process to determine the path of transmission lines in Chile
- The fundamental review and recommendations for new security standards for distribution and transmission systems in the UK
- The design of the commercial strategies for the largest battery system connected to a distribution system in the world (UK)
- The fundamental review and design of new regulation to coordinate several transmission network regimes in the UK
- The design of the new regulatory framework for auctioning long-term contracts of electricity supply in Chile
All of the above have had a material impact in practical terms and these projects have directly affected companies (generation, transmission and distribution companies), regulatory authorities, policy makers, and ultimately consumers' welfare. Importantly, and as mentioned earlier, the material produced has been extensively published in 23 ISI journal papers, 1 monograph, 6 non-ISI journal papers and 33 conference papers (see more at https://sites.google.com/site/rmorenov/publica).
There is also a bunch of projects that have been carried out and funded by research councils (Conicyt in Chile and UKRC/EPSRC in the UK). Most notably, the Fondef and Newton-Picarte projects have funded elaboration of new computational tools to study the impacts of investment and operational decisions on economic, reliability and resilience performance of electricity networks. Also, Dr. Moreno's ideas and research have been incorporated in the CORFO funded initiative entitled AMEBA, an specialized computational platform to undertake advanced economic and financial analyses in the electricity sector through the application of operations research (see: ameba.cloud).
Dr. Moreno has authored/co-authored more than 60 papers published in journals and conferences proceedings and am a regular reviewer of 8 internationally recognised journals of IEEE, IET and Elsevier. He has been a member of the steering committee of the youth branch of CIGRE in the UK (CIGRE NGN) and am the current Chair of the Latin American Infrastructure Working Group and Vice-Chair of the Natural Disasters and Emergency Response Working Group, both in the Power and Energy Society of IEEE. Dr. Moreno has also organised 18 panel sessions in renowned international conferences in IEEE, CIGRE, INFORMS, IFORS, ISMP, etc (see more at https://sites.google.com/site/rmorenov/further). He is regularly invited to give talks at a national and international levels, and even teach fundamentals in government offices.
Finally, Dr. Moreno has been recently invited to join various expert panels and roundtables, including:
- Roundtable for hydroelectric development (conducted by Energy Ministry)
- Group of experts for design of ancillary services markets (conducted by National Energy Commission)
- Group of experts for transmission network remuneration (conducted by Energy Ministry)
- Expert panel for the Green Climate Fund (conducted by Ministry of Finance)
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Distinción en Exámen de Licenciatura
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Chile, 2003
Within the best 10% in the test "Examen de Licentiatura en Ciencias de la Ingenieria".
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Distinción Máxima Ingeniería Civil
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Chile, 2005
Summa Cum Laude in Civil Engineering (scored 6.02/7.0).
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Distinción Máxima Magister
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Chile, 2005
Summa Cum Laude in the Master in Engineering Sciences (scored 6.5/7.0).
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Beca Presidente de la República para Doctorado en el Extranjero
COMITE ASESOR DE CONICYT
Chile, 2007
Excellent quality of academic records and CV.
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Chair of the Latin American Infrastructure Working Group of the Power and Energy Society of IEEE
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Estados Unidos, 2010
Leadership in the organization of several activities in the Latin American working group of the IEEE-PES.Organization of panel sessions in optimization, renewable energy, smart girds, and system planning, among others.
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Most-Accessed Paper IEEE-PES
IEEE - Power and Energy Society
Chile, 2010
Moreno, R., Strbac, G., Porrua, F., Mocarquer, S., Bezerra, B., “Making Room for the Boom - New Regulatory Avenues and Network Infrastructure Changes for Accommodating Renewables”, IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, Vol 8, No 5, pp 36-46, Sep-Oct 2010 (7th in the ranking of most-accessed papers in Oct 2010 in IEEE-PES).
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Certificate of Appreciation of IEEE
IEEE - Power and Energy Society
Chile, 2011
Chairing/co-chairing the panel session "Deploying Tomorrows's Electrical Power Systems: Low carbon, Efficiency and Security" sponsored by the International Practices Subcommittee of the Energy Development and Power Generation Committee at the IEEE PES General Meeting 2011, Detroit, MI.
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Most-Read Paper SAGE-Journal of Risk and Reliability
SAGE
Reino Unido, 2012
Moreno, R., Pudjianto, D., and Strbac, G., “Integrated Reliability and Cost-Benefit-Based Standards for Transmission Network Operation”, Journal of Risk and Reliability, Vol 226, No 1, pp 75-87, Feb 2012 (constantly ranked within the first 5 articles in the ranking of most-read papers Feb-Aug 2012 in SAGE-Journal of Risk and Reliability).
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Researcher Pay Relativity
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
Chile, 2013
In recognition of the quality of my achievements and contribution to the College. (include a payment of 1000£).
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Most-Accessed Paper IEEE-PES
IEEE – Transactions on Power Systems
Estados Unidos, 2013
Moreno, R., Pudjianto, D., and Strbac, G., “Transmission Network Investment with Probabilistic Security and Corrective Control”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, in press (24th in the ranking of most-accessed papers in Jul 2013 in IEEE-PES).
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2nd best research proposal in engineering group 2 at national level, Fondecyt contest
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Chile, 2013
Diploma given in the annual ceremony by the University of Chile for top proposals in the Fondecyt contest.
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Vice-Chair Natural Disasters Working Group in IEEE
IEEE Power and Energy Society
Estados Unidos, 2018
Leadership in the organization of several activities in the natural disaster working group of the IEEE-PES.Organization of panel sessions in power system resilience, high impact low probability events, natural disasters and hazards.
Fundamentals of Power System Resilience: Disruptions by Natural Causes |
Exploring the concept of hosting capacity from an electricity market perspective |
Game-theoretic modeling of merchant transmission investments |
Leonardo Basso
Full Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Marcelo Olivares
Profesor Asociado
DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERIA CIVIL. UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE.
Santiago, Chile
Enzo Sauma
Profesor Titular
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Javiera Barrera
Profesora Asociada
FACULTAD DE INGENIERÍA Y CIENCIAS
Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
Santiago, Chile
Pablo Osses
Docencia universitaria
Geografía física
INSTITUTO DE GEOGRAFÍA PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile
Hugh Rudnick
Professor
Electrical Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Matias Negrete
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Carlos Matamala
Ingeniero de investigación y desarrollo
Centro de Energía, Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile