Extraordinary results were obtained from the course of Power System Dynamic and Wind Power using DIgSILENT in Nicosia, Cyprus. A very good atmosphere for learning process was developed during the two days course. A group of 14 peoples participated in the course: personnel of the TSO, Post-doctoral research associates, PhD Students. Dr Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt is very pleased of this experience, very high level of the attendees and very good questions. So, he is very thankful for the invitation provided by the University of Cyprus, special mention to: Prof Elias Kyriakides, Dr. Charalambos Charalambous and Dr Stylianos Hirodontis.

Wind Power Development Stalled in Venezuela. Venezuela could install as much as 1,600 MW of wind power generation by 2015-20, according to a key industry source that wished to remain nameless. He added that the country is making progress in pursuing three projects that could add as much as 300 MW in the next couple of years. Francisco Gonzalez-Longatt, vice president of Venezuelan Wind Energy Association (AVeol), says it's too early to provide an accurate forecast for the country's wind potential but notes Venezuela's 2,718Km northern coastal strip has strong wind speeds blowing an annual average of 8.9 meters per second. Francisco Gonzalez-Longatt, vice president of Venezuelan Wind Energy Association (AVeol), says it's too early to provide an accurate forecast for the country's wind potential but notes Venezuela's 2,718Km northern coastal strip has strong wind speeds blowing an annual average of 8.9 meters per second. "We could fill up the whole coast with offshore platforms because the wind speed there is very good," he notes. However, he adds reliable and sufficient ocean-depth studies are missing to make such a task feasible.

Prof Lidi Wang is coming back to the School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shenyang Agricultural University, China. Prof Vladimir Terzija and Dr Francisco Gonzalez-Longatt have met up with Prof Lidi Wang to end the present research projects and define future reach collaboration between the School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shenyang Agricultural University and the University of Manchester. This meeting was held on Friday 12th November 2010, it was a spectacular opportunity to share experiencing and say good bye and wish safe trip to Prof Wang.

“Intelligent/Macro/Micro/Sustainable/Smarter Grids: Challenges and Opportunities” is the conference title that Dr Gonzalez-Longatt has presented at EXPOELEC and Congreso de Instalaciones Electricas/Congress of Electric Installations, 13-16 October 2010, Caracas, Venezuela.   Electric power and energy systems of today are undergoing major changes in how they are evolving in their structure and how they are competing to meet the load demand. The centralized and vertical grid model based on electromechanical components, will be substituted by distributed and unbundled model with digitalized components. Generation, control and measurement will suffer changes and impacts with this new model. This presentation was a formidable opportunity to show modern and important concepts that are involved in the new paradigm of power utilities. High level attendants provided an amazing opportunity to share experiences and discuss about the future impact of smart grid concept into the Venezuelan power system. The presentation is available for download [click here]

Advanced Training on Modelling and Simulation of Wind Energy Conversion Systems was done for member of CORPOELEC (Venezuelan power utility). On 6 and 7 October 2010, was held in the meeting room in La Electricidad de Caracas building, San Bernardino, Caracas, the advanced training on modeling and simulation of which energy conversion system, it was lectured by Dr. Francis M. González-Longatt, Research Associate at The University of Manchester, United Kingdom and Vice-President of the Venezuelan Association of Wind Energy (Aveol).

1st October 2010, during the XI Congreso de Estudiantes de Ingenieria IEEE UNEFA TACHIRA 2010, Venezuela, Dr Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt lecture about the "FUNDAMENTALS OF WIND ENERGY: VENEZUELA & THE WORLD".  He presented a  lecture about the wind energy basic concepts, and he talked about the wind energy resource in Venezuela and the prospective development around the world, special emphasis is expected on wind energy assessment in Venezuela. Dr Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt [Presentation] (16.9 MB)

Dr Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt will lecture about Smart-Grids on 13th October 2010 during Congress of Electric Installations, 13-16 October 2010, Caracas, Venezuela. The presentation has been titled "Smart grid (Maro/Micro): Challenges and Opportunities (Redes Inteligentes Sustentables (Macro/Micro): Retos y Oportunidades)". Electric power and energy systems of today are undergoing major changes in how they are evolving in their structure and how they are competing to meet the load demand. The centralized and vertical grid model based on electromechanical components, will be substituted by distributed and unbundled model with digitalized components. Generation, control and measurement will suffer changes and impacts with this new model. This is the context in which MacG-MicG-DG-DER-RES and SMART GRIDS are being developed [Presentation Resume] [Event Program] [Event Registration]

"FUNDAMENTALS OF WIND ENERGY: VENEZUELA & THE WORLD (Fundamentos de la Energia Eolica: Venezuela y el Mundo)". Dr Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt will be present on XI Congreso de Estudiantes de Ingenieria IEEE UNEFA TACHIRA 2010, He will  lecture about the wind energy in Venezuela and prospective development around the world, special emphasis is expected on wind energy assessment in Venezuela. [Brief]. On the other hand, Mr Carlos Mendez, former student of Dr. Gonzalez-Longatt, will talk about the wake effect over the steady-state behaviour of wind farm. This is good opportunity to learn about the Venezuela progress in terms of wind power [Brief] .

Congreso de Instalaciones Electricas/Congress of Electric Installations, 13-16 October 2010, Caracas, Venezuela. The IX Congress of Electric Installations offers an unbelievable opportunity to Bringing together professionals and technicians in order to exchange information and discuss experiences and issues related to electrical installations in medium and low voltage and electrical service and telecommunications. This event will be held between 13rd to 16th October 2010 on Caracas, Venezuela.  [Download Brochure]

XI Congreso de Estudiantes de Ingenieria IEEE UNEFA TACHIRA 2010, Venezuela. 29th September to 2nd October 2010. This event will be held at the National Experimental University of the Bolivarian Armed Force. Núcleo Táchira. San Cristobal, Venezuela. This event is the most important engineering meeting for more than 400 students around Venezuela. This year will be held in San Cristobal city at 600 km of the capital city of Venezuela, Caracas. during five days, technical presentation about all branches of engineering will be done by important researchers from Venezuela and around the world. San Cristobal Venezuela, 29th September to 2nd October 2010. [Download Brochure]

Research Group Barbecue 2010. The traditional barbecue for Electrical Energy and Power Systems Group of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester on 23rd July 2010. An exceptional cold and sunny weather was the environment where around seventy people between academic and research staff and PhD students share experiences and talk about different interest. Good food and drinks help to create a amazing atmosphere to increase the synergy and provide the resilience for a high lever research group. Important people attended to this event: Prof. Vladimir Terzija, Prof Daniel Kirshen, Dr Mutale, Dr Li, Dr Dei, Dr Gonzalez-Longatt and PhD students. Thanks to Mr Muhammad Aali  for the photos.

Opinions and results provided by Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt have been published in the most famous Newspaper of Venezuela. Results of most recent research of Dr Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt have been published in the Venezuelan newspaper "El Nacional". He was questioned his opinion about the first wind farm in Venezuela and He said "this project will be finished by end of 2011, 100 MW for wind power generation to support the Venezuelan Power System".

Research Project Meeting "WAMPAC". An important project meeting about Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control System  was developed in The University of Manchester on 11st May 2010. Several important aspects in WAMPAC was discussed with the utilities partners from Scotland. Topic such: Real time load modelling supported by PMU Intelligent control islanding Inertia constant estimation Inter-area oscillation, Parameter estimation in Machines, etc were presented during this session.

Dr Francisco M. González-Longatt has been interviewed about their views on renewable energy in Venezuela. On Friday, 9th April 2010, the renowned journalist Andres Rojas Jiménez of El Nacional newpaper, Venezuela, has interviewed Dr Francisco M. González-Longatt about his opinion regarding alternative energy resources and electricity situation in Venezuela. Dr Gonzalez-Longatt has been emphatic on the need to create a culture of saving energy in the population, and he has agreed the implementation of new tariff schemes will help both the subscriber as the electricity companies in Venezuela. Hourly rates, said Dr Gonzalez-Longatt, largely aimed at encouraging voluntary savings, efficiency, and thus to flatten the demand for electricity. Similarly noted a reduction in the frequency of Venezuelan interconnected system operation as a simple technical measure and energy saving. Finally, Prof. Francis M. González-Longatt to pointed out the need for screening and selection of solid resources as a state policy, which finally allows to use the valuable resource of garbage as a source for electricity production. [Download the Article 1 2]

Six Areas with High Wind Potential in Venezuela. One of the major newspapers in Venezuela, El Nacional has reviewed the participation of Dr Francisco M. González-Longatt in the seminar held at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, Caracas. Based on the preliminary results achieved by Prof. Francis M. González-Longatt six locations with high wind energy potential has been found. On Thursday April 8, 2010, and article entitled Six Areas with wind power, has referred the six possible location as: Coro, San Tome, Cumana, Guiria, Maracaibo, Porlamar. These sites have been identified as potential areas for the exploitation of wind energy resources in Venezuela [See newspaper history]

Preliminary Wind Resource Atlas of Venezuela. On Wednesday April 7, 2010 was performed with great success one day meeting titled Wind Energy Project in Venezuela. Dr Francisco M. González-Longatt, lectured about a Preliminary Wind Resource Atlas in Venezuela. This Atlas is based on measurements of 2005, 2006 and 2007 years from 37 meteorological stations distributed over the whole of Venezuela. Statistical imputation treatment algorithm based on a maximum expectation was used for the completion of the lost data. A spatial interpolation method was used to determine the wind resource (speed and power density -Watt/m2) like treatment necessary to consider the effect of terrain on the wind resource. As a result of this research has determined that the stations with high power density were the Choir, Porlamar, Cumana and Güiria, which form part of northern Venezuela. Spatial interpolations show the best features of wind are located in Zulia, Falcón, Nueva Esparta and Sucre. Wind speeds in those states exceed Class 3 winds are defined as acceptable for wind generation, and even in places like Rio Seco in Falcon state speeds reach 6.5 m/ s. [Download Presentation] [Download newspaper]

Wind Energy projects in Venezuela (PROYECTOS DE ENERGÍA EÓLICA EN VENEZUELA). The Centre for Science Studies Energy and Hydrocarbons Preliminary Wind Resource Atlas of Venezuela. On Wednesday April 7, 2010 was performed with great success the day Wind Energy Project in Venezuela. Prof. Francisco M. González-Longatt, made the presentation of a Preliminary Wind Resource Atlas in Venezuela. This Atlas is based on measurements of the years 2005, 2006 and 2007 from 37 meteorological stations distributed over the whole of Venezuela. Statistical imputation treatment algorithm based on a maximum expectation was used for the completion of the lost data. A spatial interpolation method was used to determine the wind resource (speed and power density -Watt/m2) like treatment necessary to consider the effect of terrain on the wind resource. As a result of this research has determined that the stations with high power density were the Choir, Porlamar, Cumana and Güiria, which form part of northern Venezuela. Spatial interpolations, the best features of wind had Zulia, Falcón, Nueva Esparta and Sucre. Wind speeds in these states exceed Class 3 winds are defined as acceptable for wind generation, and even in places like Rio Seco in Falcon state speeds reach 6.5 m / s. of the Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV) and the Venezuelan Wind Energy Association invite the Seminar titled: WIND POWER PROJECT IN VENEZUELA. Date: April 07, 2010: 8:00am. Place: UBV, Caracas, Venezuela. Dr Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt will lecture about the "PRELIMINARY WIND MAP OF VENEZUELA" [Details -in Spanish]