Guillermo Terrén Serrano

Biography

Guillermo was born in Zaragoza, Spain. He is a postdoctoral scholar affiliated with the Environmental Studies program and the emLab's Climate & Energy program at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). His research focuses on integrating variable renewable energy resources into power grids. In previous work, he proposed an innovative solar forecasting technology to optimize energy dispatch in smart grids with high photovoltaic power system penetration. He received a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of New Mexico (UNM) in 2022 and a B.Sc. in Technical Industrial Engineering with an emphasis in Industrial Electricity from the Universidad de Zaragoza. He enjoys hiking, restoring old espresso machines, photography, and reading novels.

Climate Action Project

Power grid operators rely on energy demand forecasts to determine the unit commitment and operating reserve requirements that minimize operational costs and ensure system reliability. Clean energy sources like wind and solar can be unpredictable, creating uncertainty in the amount of energy generated on a given day. Errors in both energy demand and clean energy forecasts can create a mismatch between supply and demand and decrease the reliability of the electricity system. As a Climate Innovation Fellow, Dr. Terrén Serrano will be optimizing novel forecasting models capable of accommodating the variability of clean energy sources, to foster more reliable and accurate energy delivery.