Dr. Ademar Virgolino da Silva Netto

Job Title: Professor do departamento de engenharia elétrica
Company: Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

Ademar Virgolino da Silva Netto received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 2008, M.Sc. in 2010, and Ph.D. in 2014 from the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), including a doctoral exchange period at the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom. He has been a Professor at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) since 2016, working in the fields of Automation and Intelligent Systems and affiliated with the CEAR/UFPB Embrapii Unit. He has extensive R&D experience through ANEEL-funded projects and international collaborations, with a focus on energy optimization, advanced control, and digital transformation applied to power generation systems.

August 26, 2026Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in Practice: Strategies to Enable Return on Investment

Sessions

Workshop

Technical Training - Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in Practice: Strategies to Enable Return on Investment

Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 4:00pm–6:00pm

1st floor Jaçanã 2

The course offers a comprehensive technical and economic vision of the battery energy storage sector in Brazil. The presentation covers everything from fundamental concepts and battery technologies to selection criteria based on power, energy, and life cycles. The content explores several practical applications, including solar self-consumption, peak shaving, and grid support, detailing through an electric vehicle (EV) charging station case study how the integration of photovoltaic systems with BESS can optimize contracted demand and improve financial indicators such as NPV (VPL) and payback. Finally, the course concludes that the viability of these systems depends on "revenue stacking" and a careful analysis of operational strategies to address current investment costs.