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Esteban Manuel Gil Sagas

Professor

UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

Valparaiso, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


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

Educación

  •  Electrical Engineering, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2007
  •  Statistics, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2006
  •  Electrical Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2001
  •  Electrical Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2001
  •  Electrical engineering, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 1997

Experiencia Académica

  •   Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2011 - A la fecha

  •   Professor Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2000 - 2002

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Consultant Full Time

    McLennan Magasanik Associates

    Melbourne, Australia

    2007 - 2010

  •   Consultant Full Time

    Sinclair Knight Merz

    Melbourne, Australia

    2010 - 2011

Formación de Capital Humano


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.


Difusión y Transferencia


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.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Fulbright scholarship award

    COMISION FULBRIGHT-CHILE

    Estados Unidos, 2002

    Fulbright scholarship award for PhD studies at Iowa State University

  •   ISU Alumni Association

    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

    Chile, 2006

    Recognition for commitment to academic achievement

  •   Colegio Ingenieros de chile

    COLEGIO DE INGENIEROS DE CHILE A.G.

    Chile, 2002

    Top graduate at UTFSM

  •   Distinción académica Federico Santa María

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Chile, 2001

    Academic distinction to the Electrical Engineering top graduate

  •   ISU scholarship award

    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

    Estados Unidos, 2002

    Iowa State University tuition scholarship


 

Article (21)

Addressing the Effects of Climate Change on Modeling Future Hydroelectric Energy Production in Chile
An efficient method for Contingency-Constrained Transmission Expansion Planning
Ramping ancillary service for cost-based electricity markets with high penetration of variable renewable energy
Day-ahead reserve scheduling approaches under wind uncertainty
Long short-term memory networks based in echo state networks for wind speed forecasting
Strategic Generation Bidding and Scheduling under Price Uncertainty
Transmission Expansion Planning Considering an Hourly Demand Curve
Wind Power Forecasting Based on Echo State Networks and Long Short-Term Memory
Determining nodal interruption capacity with reliability assessment method
Modeling marginal CO2 emissions in hydrothermal systems: Efficient carbon signals for renewables
Technical constraints in fossil fuel generators: Impacts on long-term investments signals
Short-term Hydrothermal Generation Scheduling Using a Parallelized Stochastic Mixed-integer Linear Programming Algorithm
Generation Capacity Expansion Planning Under Hydro Uncertainty Using Stochastic Mixed Integer Programming and Scenario Reduction
Hydrological scenario reduction for stochastic optimization in hydrothermal power systems
Power system reliability impacts of wind generation and operational reserve requirements
Evaluating the capacity value of wind power considering transmission and operational constraints
Assessing power system adequacy for different penetrations of wind and solar capacity in a thermal system
A US Energy System Model for Disruption Analysis: Evaluating the Effects of 2005 Hurricanes
A multiperiod generalized network flow model of the US integrated energy system: Part I - Model description
Nodal prices in an integrated energy system: a generalised network flow modelling approach
Short-term hydrothermal generation scheduling model using a genetic algorithm

ConferencePaper (8)

A stochastic generation capacity expansion planning methodology using linear distribution factors and hourly load modeling
Unit Commitment with Primary Frequency Control Requirements for Low-Inertia Systems
Parallelized Stochastic Short-term Hydrothermal Generation Scheduling
Short-term hydrothermal generation scheduling using a parallelized stochastic mixed-integer linear programming algorithm
Generation Capacity Expansion Planning under Demand Uncertainty Using Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programming
Load forecasting assessment using SARIMA model and fuzzy inductive reasoning
Monte Carlo-based method to estimate the capacity value of wind power considering operational aspects
Evaluating the contribution of intermittent generation to power system adequacy at different demand levels

Proyecto (6)

Power Systems Capacity Expansion Planning Under Uncertainty
Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Integración de energías renovables no convencionales en los sistemas interconectados chilenos
Evaluating the contribution to power system adequacy of intermittent generation
Planificación de la expansión del Sistema Interconectado Central usando programación estocástica
Data collection following hurricane Katrina=> Interdependencies across time, space, and subsystems characterizing bulk energy transportation
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Esteban Gil

Professor

Electrical Engineering

UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

Valparaiso, Chile

2
Carlos Valle

Académico Jornada Completa

Computación e Informática

Universidad de Playa Ancha

Valparaíso, Chile

2
Erick López

Profesor Asociado

Facultad de Ciencias

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

2
Hugh Rudnick

Professor

Electrical Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Héctor Allende

Professor

Computer Science

UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARÍA

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Jesus Cardenas

Profesor Titular

Ingeniería Eléctrica

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Victor Hinojosa

Full-time Professor

Electrical Engineering

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Valparaiso, Chile

1
YEREL MORALES

Académico Adjunto

Ingeniería Civil

Universidad de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile