https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news Exploring renewable energy, battery storage, grid flexibility, and electricity markets through engineering, modelling, and applied research. en Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/intersolar-europe-2026 https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/intersolar-europe-2026 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Notes from Munich on battery storage as a revenue asset, hybrid PV plus storage, grid-forming inverters, energy management software, bidirectional charging, and what structural curtailment means for Greece. https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/7th-power-gas-forum-athens https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/7th-power-gas-forum-athens Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reflections on grid constraints, flexibility, storage, data infrastructure, and the increasingly operational nature of the Greek energy transition. https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/renewable-energytech-expo-thessaloniki https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/renewable-energytech-expo-thessaloniki Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Notes from Renewable EnergyTech in Thessaloniki on curtailment, storage delays, flexible portfolios, and self-consumption, and a conversation on what young engineers gain from the market itself. https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/7th-renewable-storage-forum https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/7th-renewable-storage-forum Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Notes on renewable deployment, storage, curtailment, grid access, and the regulatory conditions shaping the next phase of the Greek electricity market. https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/wind-farm-turbine-erection https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/wind-farm-turbine-erection Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Field notes from the erection of a wind turbine, lifted section by section from the bottom tower to the three blades, and why the sequence and the weather govern the day. https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/ieee-pess-2025-best-paper-award https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/ieee-pess-2025-best-paper-award Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Our work on PV and Vehicle-to-Grid integration in the isolated island grid of Kastellorizo received the 3rd Best Paper Award at IEEE PESS 2025 in Munich. https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/evs38-gothenburg-ev-charging https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/evs38-gothenburg-ev-charging Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Our EVS38 paper used BiGRU neural networks to predict long-term EV charger behaviour from short-term test data, with a prediction error as low as 4.9% for chargers with consistent control logic. https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/wind-farm-foundation-pour https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/wind-farm-foundation-pour Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Notes from site during the continuous, uninterrupted concrete pour of a wind turbine foundation, and why the engineering is decided in the logistics, not only in the concrete. https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/ai-hub-mayor-western-achaia https://lamproskonstantellos.com/news/ai-hub-mayor-western-achaia Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT A meeting between the University of Patras AI-Hub team and the Municipality of Western Achaia on practical AI applications for municipal services, including water-quality monitoring.