The most modern Smart Grid Laboratory in South America

Julien Noel, head of power engineering at the Universidad de Ingenería y Tecnología (UTEC), proudly holds the certificate in his hands. His work has paid off: with its newly equipped complete laboratory, UTEC has been given the award for the best equipped Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Laboratory in the whole of South America.

The UTEC university in Lima, Peru, is setting standards: its new Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Laboratory is the most modern on the entire continent and is now training experts for the mining industry. Even professors of leading universities in Uruguay and Chile made the long journey to see the completed laboratory for themselves and marvel at the new training systems that are currently being used to train 72 students as energy experts. Here the students practise flexible grid management designed to make the increasing share of renewable energy compatible with conventional power station infrastructures. The variety and multitude of decentralized power stations calls for a new way of managing the electricity supply system: the “smart grid”. And here Lucas-Nülle is the only supplier of a smart grid training system which also offers remote PC access via the IP address. But the UTEC students are not only there to learn: in the Smart Grid Laboratory, they are already researching and developing new solutions for the national electricity grid.

UTEC opened its doors in 2012 after just 15 months of construction. At the moment, the university is attended by 764 students, and this figure is expected to rise to 2,000 in the next two years.

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