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Current team members
Current team members
Guido Godínez Zamora
Guido Godínez Zamora
He is an electromechanical engineer from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, who is completing his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering to enroll in the Doctoral Program in Engineering at the University of Costa Rica. He has extensive experience in planning of power systems and real-time operation, with relevant contributions in the National Power and Light Company of Costa Rica. He is currently a part-time professor and a full-time researcher at the Electric Power and Energy Research Laboratory, where he works together with a collaborative scientific community called; "Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project". His main task is to develop an open source analytics framework that supports national strategies on sustainable and low-carbon energy planning.
Luis Fernando Víctor Gallardo
Luis Fernando Víctor Gallardo
He is a research assistant at the EPERLab at the School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Costa Rica and advisor to the Directorate of Climate Change. Eng. Victor obtained the bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Costa Rica. He is a national expert in modeling energy systems (TIMES and OSeMOSYS models) and has informed public policy such as: the National Development Plan 2018-2022, the Executive Order for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure and the National Decarbonization Plan 2018-2050. Eng. Victor has developed technical projects for the United Nations Environment Program and the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE), and is currently working towards his MSc in developing a project to inform robust decisions for the MINAE and the Interamerican Development Bank.
María José Parajeles Herrera
María José Parajeles Herrera
As an undergraduate student, María José developed her Bachelor’s Degree Graduation Project at the EPER-Lab, which was later published as an article in the Innovative Smart Grid Technologies – LA 2017 conference under the title: “Assessing the Performance of Smart Inverters in Large-Scale Distribution Networks with PV Systems”. After graduating, she participated in a consultancy developed by the EPER-Lab for the Ministry of Environment and Energy in Costa Rica about the Viability of Energy Storage Technologies in the country. Currently, she is developing her Licentiate Degree Graduation Thesis named: “Coordination of LTC Control and Smart Inverters in Large-Scale Distribution Networks with PV Systems”.
Orlando Solís Pereira
Orlando Solís Pereira
He received his BS.c in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems) at the University of Costa Rica in 2018. In 2016 and 2017, he developed his BS.c graduation project “Unbalance Minimization in Medium Voltage Networks”, which involved programming skills in Matlab, Python and distribution system simulator OpenDSS. In 2018, he worked in the EPERLab as a Consultancy Research Engineer in a project between MINAE and the UCE regarding the characterization of energy consumption in the residential sector in Costa Rica. Currently, he words towards his Licentiate degree project entitled “Quantifying the benefits of Electric Vehicles on the Distribution System Restoration”.
Jam Angulo Paniagüa
Jam Angulo Paniagüa
He received the Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Costa Rica in 2018. In 2017, he joined the EPER-Lab to complete his final project titled: Bad Data Processing Algorithm for State Estimation in Smart Grinds. As a member of the EPER-Lab, in 2018, he participated in the elaboration of the Strategic Location of EV Fast Charging Stations in Costa Rica. Between 2018 and 2019, he worked on projects under the Ministry of Environment and Energy related to energy disaggregation, and graph and data processing including: Methodology for Determining Load Curve and Electric Consumption of the Residential Sector by End Use, and Characterization of the Energetic Consumption of the Industrial Sector.
Ignacio Alfaro Corrales
Ignacio Alfaro Corrales
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Carmen Selva López
Carmen Selva López
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Monica Rodríguez Zúñiga
Monica Rodríguez Zúñiga
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Sebastián Ramírez Sandí
Sebastián Ramírez Sandí
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Past team members
Past team members
Gerardo Araya Fonseca
Gerardo Araya Fonseca
Developed alongside prof. Quiros-Tortos his licentiate degree thesis. In that project, an EV impact study (quantified as overloads in distribution transformers and voltage issues in clients) was carried in a real Costa Rican distribution circuit modeled in OpenDSS. To estimate according to local conditions the amount, location and battery charge behavior of the EVs in the circuit, an assignment methodology was proposed. This methodology considered local socio-economic information to represent accurately the Costa Rican economic environment. The expected scenario showed limited EV penetration, because of low economic competitiveness of EVs compared to similar combustion vehicles. But futuristic scenarios, considering lower EV acquisition costs (as a local market is established) showed an important raise in customer voltage problems.
Roger Gonzalez Solis
Roger Gonzalez Solis
Roger has worked with us since 2016, first during his Bachelor degree titled Harmonic power flow study using typical spectra for Costa Rica (BSc Thesis), then as junior engineer in consultancy, and currently finishing his Licentiate degree titled Techno-economic evaluation for the installation of Advance Metering Infrastructure on Costa Rican distribution networks (Thesis under development). He has contributed on a number of conference and journal papers (see Publications). Currently, he works as Distribution System Planning Engineer at CNFL, S.A.
Rebeca Brenes
Rebeca Brenes
Rebeca received her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Costa Rica in 2017. She was an active researcher at EPERLAB between 2016-2017. Rebeca wrote her graduation project about location and sizing of fast charging stations for electric vehicles using GIS and was part of a consulting project regarding modelling of demand changes in Costa Rica, considering scenarios with electric vehicles, energy storage and distributed generation. She is currently doing her master in electric power engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, her thesis is about modelling the hydropower flexibility in Continental Europe to support intermittent renewable generation.
Ricardo Bejarano
Ricardo Bejarano
He received the Bachelor degree from the University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica, in 2018. Since 2018, he has worked with Jairo Quirós-Tortós (JQT) in consulting projects, such as: Energetic comsumption in the industrial sector of Costa Rica and Proposal for the location of The fast charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Costa Rica. He is currently researching with JQT how to integrate blockchain in Costa Rica's energy system. His research interests include the blockchain technology, privacy preservation, vehicular networks, and smart energy chargings.
Marco Jara
Marco Jara
Abdenago Guzman
Abdenago Guzman
Juan Martínez
Juan Martínez
He received the Bachelor degreee from the University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica, in 2017. He developed a Control strategy for capacitor banks in low voltage electrical networks in the presence of electric vehicles. He also participated as a researcher engineer in consultancies that were carried out for MINAE, SEPSE and ICE. He is currently working on the final graduation project in which he develops an algorithm for the optimal planning of the low and medium voltage distribution system.
Gerald Murillo
Gerald Murillo
David Mejias
David Mejias
David Leiva
David Leiva
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