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Álvaro López-Peña Fernández Assistant Researcher/PhD Student Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) / Cátedra BP de Energía y
Sostenibilidad Universidad
Pontificia Comillas Madrid |
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1. Presentation:
Alvaro’s
main professional interest is energy sustainability and its policy
implications. A graduated engineer, he is currently finishing his PhD in
Sustainable Energy Policy Analysis at the BP Chair on Energy and
Sustainability, in collaboration with the Instituto de Investigación
Tecnólogica. |
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2. Contact Details
Address: Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica
(IIT). c/ Santa Cruz de Marcenado 26, 28015 Madrid, Spain. Phone: +34
91 542 28 00 Ext. 2775. Web: BP
Chair on Energy and Sustainability:
http://www.catedrabp.upcomillas.es Institute
for Research in Technology (IIT): http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/ |
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3. Biography:
Álvaro
was born in Madrid in 1983. He obtained his Industrial Engineering Degree
(MSc.) from Universidad Pontificia
Comillas (ICAI), Madrid, Spain, in 2006. He also graduated as an engineer
(MSc.) from the École d'Ingénieurs
ICAM Toulouse, France, in 2007, after studying there and doing an
internship at Airbus Central Entity. In
2009 he completed his pre-PhD Masters at Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica,
where his research was focused on generation capacity investment analysis in
liberalized electricity markets, electricity markets modeling, renewable
support schemes and capacity mechanisms. This research was financed by Endesa, and supervised
by Professor Efraim Centeno and Professor Julián Barquín. The main outcome
was the paper “Long Term Issues to be Addressed by Regulators in Liberalised
Electricity Systems: Generation Adequacy and Indicative Planning.
Justification, Available Mechanisms, and a Simulation Study on Some Concrete
Policies”. Since
2009, he has been working on his PhD Thesis within the BP Chair on Energy and
Sustainability, supervised by Professor Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga and
Professor Pedro Linares, and financed by BP
Spain. The thesis’s title is “Evaluation and Design of Sustainable Energy
Policies: an Application to the Case of Spain”. The main research lines are
energy sustainability, energy policy, energy-economic-environmental modeling,
sustainability indicators, and energy economics. The ultimate goal is
proposing a methodology for assessing sustainable energy policies (those
aiming at making the energy system more sustainable in its economic and
environmental perspectives) and applying it to the specific case of Spain.
Within his PhD, he did a research visit to the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology during 2012. Outside
his PhD research, but related to energy, he is also interested in aid for
development (member of the Board of the Spanish NGO Energía Sin Fronteras) and in
big music events as a way to communicate sustainability ideas to society
(Co-Founder and Director for Energy at EarthBeatz S.L.). Within Energía Sin
Fronteras, he has mainly worked in the development of regulatory frameworks
for promoting the participation of private entities (such as entrepreneurs,
local cooperatives, utilities, etc) in the electrification of isolated rural
communities in developing countries, where the national electricity grids do
not reach. He has also trained local populations on the use and maintenance
of photovoltaic systems. At the moment he is in charge of tasks concerning
Institutional Relations with other Organisations. |
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4. Research
Click here to see
my publications and citations in Google Scholar The
outcome of his research so far has been the following: Journal Publications:
·
López-Peña,
Á., Pérez-Arriaga, I., & Linares, P. (2012). Renewables vs. energy efficiency:
The cost of carbon emissions reduction in Spain. Energy Policy, 50, 659–668.
doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.08.006 ·
López-Peña,
Á., Linares, P., & Pérez-Arriaga, I. (2011). Análisis
retrospectivo de la eficiencia de la promoción de las renovables y del ahorro
energético para la reducción de emisiones de CO2 en España (transl. Retrospective Analysis of the Cost
Efficiency of Renewables promotion and Energy Efficiency for Carbon Emissions
Reductions in Spain). Información Comercial Española ICE, Revista de Economía. Ministerio de
Economía y Competitividad, 862,
19-32. · Centeno, E., Wogrin, S., López-Peña, Á., & Vázquez, M. (2011). Analysis of Investments in Generation Capacity: A Bilevel Approach. IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 5(8), 842-849. doi:10.1049/iet-gtd.2010.0581 · Dietrich, K., López-Peña, Á., & Linares, P. (2011). A New Framework for Rural Electrification Programs. IAEE Energy Forum, 3rd Quarter 2011, 21-25. ·
Linares, P., Pérez-Arriaga, I., López-Peña, Á., & Diaz Carazo, J.
(2009). Políticas para un Transporte Sostenible
(transl. Sustainable Transportation Policies). Cuadernos de Energía, 25, 14-21. Book Chapters:
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Linares, P., López-Peña, Á., & Pérez-Arriaga, I. (2011). El
modelo energético español (transl. The Spanish Energy Model). In J. Nieto
& P. Linares (Eds.), Cambio Global España 2020/50. Energía, Economía y
Sociedad. Madrid: CCEIM, Fundación CONAMA. Reports:
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López-Peña, Á., Linares, P., Pérez-Arriaga, I., Danesin, A., Lascorz, M.
C., & Rodrigues, R. (2013). Observatorio
de Energía y Sostenibilidad en España 2012 (transl. Observatory on Energy and
Sustainability in Spain 2012).
Madrid: BP Chair on Energy and Sustainability. ·
López-Peña, Á., Linares, P., Pérez-Arriaga, I., Danesin, A., Lascorz, M.
C., & Rodrigues, R. (2012). Observatorio
de Energía y Sostenibilidad en España 2011 (transl. Observatory on Energy and
Sustainability in Spain 2011).
Madrid: BP Chair on Energy and Sustainability. ·
Kreisler, I., & López-Peña, Á. (2011). España,
en la confluencia de sus políticas climática y de desarrollo (transl. Spain at the conjunction of its
Climate and Development Policies). Hacia
un Libro Blanco de la Política Española de Desarrollo. Informe V. Madrid:
Centro de Investigación y Estudios de Comercio y Desarrollo (CIECODE). Fundación Salvador Soler Mundo
Justo. ·
López-Peña, Á., Linares, P., Pérez-Arriaga, I., Danesin, A., Fernández,
A., & Rodrigues, R. (2011). Observatorio
de Energía y Sostenibilidad en España 2010 (transl. Observatory on Energy and
Sustainability in Spain 2010).
Madrid: BP Chair on Energy and Sustainability. ·
López-Peña, Á., Linares, P., Pérez-Arriaga, I., & Diaz Carazo, J.
(2010). Observatorio
de Energía y Sostenibilidad en España 2009 (transl. Observatory on Energy and
Sustainability in Spain 2009).
Madrid: BP Chair on Energy and Sustainability. Working Papers:
· Conchado, A., Díaz-Anadón, L., Linares, P., & López-Peña, Á. (2013). Benefits of investing in energy R&D: assessing the savings for the Spanish energy system from technological improvement. Working Paper IIT-13-013A. · López-Peña, Á., Linares, P., & Pérez-Arriaga, I. (2013). MASTER.SO: a Model for the Analysis of Sustainable Energy Roadmaps. Static Optimisation version. Working Paper IIT-11-157A. · Dietrich, K., & López-Peña, Á. (2013). Is the European 2050 emissions path viable for Spain? How much renewables are needed? Is the power system able to deal with it? Working Paper IIT‐13‐005A. · López-Peña, Á., Pérez-Arriaga, I., & Linares, P. (2012). Cost-Efficient Decarbonisation of Spanish Private Road Transportation: Biofuels vs. Electric Cars. Working Paper IIT-12-053A. · López-Peña, Á., Pérez-Arriaga, I., & Linares, P. (2011). Renewables vs. Energy Efficiency: the Cost of Carbon Emissions Reduction in Spain. Working Paper IIT-11-199A. Paper submitted for publication to Energy Policy on December 5th, 2011. Published with some modifications in November 2012. · López-Peña, Á., Centeno, E., & Barquín, J. (2009). Long Term Issues to Be Addressed by Regulators in Liberalised Electricity Systems: Generation Adequacy and Indicative Planning. Justification, Available Mechanisms, and a Simulation Study on Some Concrete Policies. Working Paper IIT-09-028A. · Sánchez, J. J., Barquín, J., Centeno, E., & López-Peña, Á. (2007). Combining System Dynamics and Game Theory to Analyse Strategic Behaviours in Electricity Markets: A Study of the Influence of Forward Markets. Working Paper IIT-08-003A. ·
Sánchez, J. J., Barquín, J., Centeno, E., & López-Peña, Á. (2007). Generation Expansion Planning:
Forecasting and Investment Decisions in a System- Dynamics Based Model.
Working Paper IIT-07-029A. Conference/Workshop Participations:
·
Dietrich, K., & López-Peña, Á. (2013). Is
the European 2050 emissions path viable for Spain? How much renewables are
needed? Is the power system able to deal with it? Presented at the
International Congress: “Challenges on Climate Change”, Universidad
Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain. ·
López-Peña, Á., Linares, P., & Pérez-Arriaga, I. (2012). A
Dynamic Model for Sustainable Energy Policy Making in Spain. Presented at
the INFORMS 2012 Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. ·
López-Peña, Á., Pérez-Arriaga, I., & Linares, P. (2012). Cost-Efficient
Decarbonisation of Spanish Private Road Transportation: Biofuels vs. Electric
Cars. Presented at the 31st edition of the International Energy Workshop
(IEW), University of Cape Town, South Africa. ·
López-Peña, Á., Linares, P., & Pérez-Arriaga, I. (2011a). Assessment
of Sustainable Energy Policies for Spain in 2030. Presented at the 34th
International Conference of the International Association for Energy
Economics., Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. ·
López-Peña, Á., Linares, P., & Pérez-Arriaga, I. (2011b). Renewables
in the Spanish Energy Sector: a Cost-Efficiency Evaluation for CO2 Emissions
Reduction. Presented at the Workshop “The Cost of Renewable Energy in the
EU,” European University Institute, Florence, Italy. ·
López-Peña, Á., Centeno, E., & Barquín, J. (2009a). Capacity
Mechanisms and Renewable Promotion in a Business Dynamics-Based Generation
Expansion Model Applied to the Spanish System. Presented at the Workshop:
“A Feedback View on the Electricity Sector: Behavior, Policy Models and Long
Term Consequences,” HEC, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. ·
López-Peña, Á., Centeno, E., & Barquín, J. (2009b). Long-Term
Security of Supply and Strategic Policies in Liberalized Electricity Systems:
Capacity Payments, Capacity Markets and Renewables Promotion Mechanisms.
Presented at the 10th International Association for Energy Economics European
Conference: “Energy, Policies and Technologies for Sustainable Economies,”
Vienna, Austria. ·
Sánchez, J. J., Barquín, J., Centeno, E., & López-Peña, Á. (2008). A Multidisciplinary Approach to
Model Long-Term Investments in Electricity Generation: Combining System
Dynamics, Credit Risk Theory and Game Theory. IEEE General Meeting 2008. ·
Centeno, E., Barquín, J., López-Peña, Á., & Sánchez, J. J. (2008). Effects of Gas-Production
Constraints on Generation Expansion. 16th Power Systems Computation
Conference. Glasgow, Scotland. ·
Sanchez, J. J., Barquín, J., Centeno, E., & López-Peña, Á. (2007).
System Dynamics Models for Generation Expansion Planning in a Competitive
Framework: Oligopoly and Market Power Representation. Presented at the
Twenty-Fifth International System Dynamics Conference, Boston, MA. |
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5. Consulting projects:
At
the Instituto the Investigación Tecnológica, while doing my research, I have
carried out some consulting projects related to my interest fields. They are: · Generation capacity expansion in systems with non-dispatchable plants, developed for: Endesa. Jan/2009-Dec/2009 · Electricity regulation for isolated rural areas in Guatemala, developed for: Energía Sin Fronteras. Jan/2008-Jul/2009 · Assistance for strategic studies, developed for: Endesa. Jan/2008-Dec/2008 ·
Long-term strategy analysis,
developed for: Endesa. Jan/2007-Dec/2007 |
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6. Links
Blogs
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