Thaís Pacheco Teixeira

Job Title
Technical Consultant
Company
EPE - Energy Research Company
Country
Brazil

Thais Teixeira works as a Technical Consultant at EPE (Energy Research Office), where she coordinates regional interconnection planning studies, in the Transmission Department.
Her fields of research and work include HVDC transmission systems, renewable energy integration and energy storage.
Teixeira holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in electrical engineering, both from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and a postgraduate degree in project management from the Pontificial Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC-MG).
Her most recent professional experience was coordinating the planning study that recommended a new HVDC system for the Brazilian electricity grid, which was published in 2023 by EPE.
Her main previous research was related to energy storage, during her masters, which resulted in the publication of a scientific paper in na international journal.
Her previous work experience includes the ONS (National System Operator) and a Project Consulting Company, where she worked with computational modeling for dynamic security assesment of power systems.

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