Personal identification

Full name

Rita Hogan Teves de Almeida

Citation names

• Almeida, RIta
• R H Almeida

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

161F-85C3-B830

ORCID iD

0000-0001-5198-8256

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)

	Degree	Classification
2016/01 - 2019/01/24 Concluded	Ingeniería de Sistemas y Servicios para la Sociedad de La Información (Doctor) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain "Large power hibrid PV pumping for irrigation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Sobresaliente Cum Laude
2019/01/24 Concluded	Sistemas Sustentáveis de Energia (Doutoramento) Major in Sem especialidade Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Large power hybrid PV pumping for irrigation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014/10/05 Concluded	Engenharia da Energia e do Ambiente (Mestrado integrado) Major in Sem especialização Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Lumisol: a contribution to solar street lighting in developing countries" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/01/01 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Energía Solar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
2016/01/01 - 2019/01/24	Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Energía Solar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
2015/01/01 - 2019/01/24	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Geofísico do Infante Dom Luiz, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/02/21 - Current	Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019/01/01 - 2022/12/31	Materiales, Dispositivos y Tecnologías para el Desarrollo de la Industria Fotovoltaica P2018/EMT-4308 Researcher Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain	Comunidad de Madrid Ongoing
2018/06/01 - 2021/05/31	GRECO (Fostering a Next Generation of European Photovoltaic Society through Open Science) 787289 Researcher Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain	Comissão Europeia Ongoing
2015/09/01 - 2018/09/01	MASLOWATEN (MArket uptake of an innovative irrigation Solution based on LOW WATer-ENergy consumption) 640771 Researcher	Comissão Europeia
2017/01/25 - 2018/01/25	Dissemination of the technical and economical feasible for PV pumping irrigation in the ECOWAS region PECGI/05/2017/082 Researcher Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain	ECREEE (ECOWAS Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency) Concluded

Publications

Conference paper	R H Almeida; I.A. Barata Carrêlo; C. Lorenzo; L. Narvarte Fernández. "Economic Validation of Large Power PV Irrigation Systems". Paper presented in 35th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Bruxelas, 2018. Augusto, C.; Almeida, R.H.; Mandelli, S.; Brito, M.C.. "Evaluation of potential of demand side management strategies in isolated microgrid". 2017. 10.1109/ICCEP.2017.8004840 Louie, H.; Goldsmith, G.; Dauenhauer, P.; Almeida, R.H.. "Issues and applications of real-time data from off-grid electrical systems". 2016. 10.1109/PowerAfrica.2016.7556577
Journal article	Herraiz, Juan Ignacio; Fernández-Ramos, José; Hogan Almeida, Rita; Báguena, Eva María; Castillo-Cagigal, Manuel; Narvarte, Luis. "On the tuning and performance of Stand-Alone Large-Power PV irrigation systems". Energy Conversion and Management: X 13 (2022): 100175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecmx.2021.100175. 10.1016/j.ecmx.2021.100175 Lorenzo, C.; Narvarte, L.; Almeida, R.H.; Cristóbal, A.B.. "Technical evaluation of a stand-alone photovoltaic heat pump system without batteries for cooling applications". Solar Energy 206 (2020): 92-105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.05.097. Published • 10.1016/j.solener.2020.05.097 Ledesma, J.R.; Almeida, R.H.; Martinez-Moreno, F.; Rossa, C.; Martín-Rueda, J.; Narvarte, L.; Lorenzo, E.. "A simulation model of the irradiation and energy yield of large bifacial photovoltaic plants". Solar Energy 206 (2020): 522-538. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.05.108. 10.1016/j.solener.2020.05.108 Isaac Barata Carrêlo; Rita Hogan Almeida; Luis Narvarte; Francisco Martinez-Moreno; Luis Miguel Carrasco. "Comparative analysis of the economic feasibility of five large-power photovoltaic irrigation systems in the Mediterranean region". Renewable Energy 145 (2020): 2671-2682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.08.030. 10.1016/j.renene.2019.08.030 Vera Reis; Rita H. Almeida; José A. Silva; Miguel C. Brito. "Demand aggregation for photovoltaic self-consumption". Energy Reports 5 (2019): 54-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2018.11.002. 10.1016/j.egyr.2018.11.002 L. Narvarte; R.H. Almeida; I.B. Carrêlo; L. Rodríguez; L.M. Carrasco; F. Martinez-Moreno. "On the number of PV modules in series for large-power irrigation systems". Energy Conversion and Management 186 (2019): 516-525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.03.001. 10.1016/j.enconman.2019.03.001 Todde, G.; Murgia, L.; Deligios, P.A.; Hogan, R.; Carrelo, I.; Moreira, M.; Pazzona, A.; Ledda, L.; Narvarte, L.. "Energy and environmental performances of hybrid photovoltaic irrigation systems in Mediterranean intensive and super-intensive olive orchards". Science of the Total Environment 651 (2019): 2514-2523. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85054792448&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.175 Rita Almeida; Isaac B. Carrêlo; Eduardo Lorenzo; Luis Narvarte; José Fernández-Ramos; Francisco Martínez-Moreno; Luis M. Carrasco. "Development and Test of Solutions to Enlarge the Power of PV Irrigation and Application to a 140 kW PV-Diesel Representative Case". Energies (2018): http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/12/3538. 10.3390/en11123538 R.H. Almeida; L. Narvarte; E. Lorenzo. "PV arrays with delta structures for constant irradiance daily profiles". Solar Energy 171 (2018): 23-30. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.solener.2018.06.066. 10.1016/j.solener.2018.06.066 Almeida, RIta. "Embodied Energy and Environmental Impact of Large-Power Stand-Alone Photovoltaic Irrigation Systems". Energies (2018): http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/8/2110. 10.3390/en11082110 C. Lorenzo; R.H. Almeida; M. Martínez-Núñez; L. Narvarte; L.M. Carrasco. "Economic assessment of large power photovoltaic irrigation systems in the ECOWAS region". Energy 155 (2018): 992-1003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.05.066. 10.1016/j.energy.2018.05.066 Almeida, R.H.; Ledesma, J.R.; Carrêlo, I.B.; Narvarte, L.; Ferrara, G.; Antipodi, L.. "A new pump selection method for large-power PV irrigation systems at a variable frequency". Energy Conversion and Management 174 (2018): 874-885. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85052528723&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.enconman.2018.08.071 Narvarte, L.; Fernández-Ramos, J.; Martínez-Moreno, F.; Carrasco, L.M.; Almeida, R.H.; Carrêlo, I.B.. "Solutions for adapting photovoltaics to large power irrigation systems for agriculture". Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 29 (2018): 119-130. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85050410036&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.seta.2018.07.004 R. H. Almeida; Instituto Dom Luiz; Faculdade de Ciências; Universidade de Lisboa; 1749-016 Lisboa; Portugal; M. C. Brito. "A review of technical options for solar charging stations in Asia and Africa". AIMS Energy 3 3 (2015): 428-449. https://doi.org/10.3934%2Fenergy.2015.3.428. 10.3934/energy.2015.3.428
Thesis / Dissertation	Almeida, Rita Hogan Teves de. "Lumisol: a contribution to solar street lighting in developing countries". Master, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/12388.

Award

2013	Award of Excellence 2013
2010	Prize FCUL Foundation Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Other distinction

2012	Academic Merit Scholarship Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2011	Academic Merit Scholarship Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2010	Academic Merit Scholarship Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal