Meet the winner of the Maria Cristina Portugal Award 2025

RELOP Announces Winner of the PMCP 2025 During the II CPLP Energy Conference

On Wednesday, May 28, during a special session of the II CPLP Energy Conference, RELOP announced the winner of the 2025 edition of the Maria Cristina Portugal Award.

Submissions were open from March 9 to April 9. This year’s jury was composed of Angela Gomes, Technical Director at PSR Brazil; Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Full Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal; and Danilo Omar, retired geophysicist from ENH, Mozambique. The panel reviewed the submitted articles, all focused on the theme of Energy Sustainability.

The winning article is titled “Towards Energy Sustainability: Integrating Energy Conservation with Consumers through Smart Grids and Regulatory Reform”, authored by Eng. Márcio Alcântara.

The article proposes an integrated and innovative approach to promoting energy conservation, modernizing electrical infrastructure, and encouraging active consumer participation, through an adaptive regulatory framework aimed at fostering the sustainable development of smart electricity distribution grids. The author demonstrates how this process contributes to the expansion of a more sustainable and resilient energy matrix, aligned with the Energy Sustainability theme of this year’s Maria Cristina Portugal Award.

Márcio Alcântara is Coordinator of Innovation and Market Engagement at the Secretariat of Innovation and Energy Transition of ANEEL. He holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and a bachelor’s degree from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG).

RELOP thanks all participants of this edition. The winning article and the other submitted works are available on our institutional website.

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