The Department of Energy joins the MEDFASEE project: a new PMU for monitoring the European electricity grid

Since 2024, the Department of Energy of the Politecnico di Milano has been participating in the international MEDFASEE project, an initiative started in 2003 in Brazil at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) and aimed at the advanced monitoring of electricity grids through the installation of Phase Measurement Units (PMUs). To date, the project has led to the commissioning of more than 20 PMUs in Brazil, a dozen in Argentina and Chile and, more recently, four in Europe (Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Italy).

ARISTOTELES: artificial intelligence and advanced simulation for the resilience of critical infrastructures exposed to climate change

The research project ARISTOTELES (ARtificial Intelligence and STOchasTic simulation for the rEsiLience of critical infrastructurES), funded by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) under the PRIN2022 programme, aims to develop innovative solutions to increase the resilience of critical infrastructures, in particular those for energy production, transport and distribution, against natural hazards such as earthquakes and tsunamis, in a context of climate change.