???global.info.a_carregar???
I am profoundly committed to making the energy transition become a reality through the development of my professional and academic activities. By combining expertise in engineering and social sciences, I strive to be at the forefront of socio-technical innovation and promote systemic interventions in the energy field, guided by a personal vision of strengthening democratic values, promoting the sharing economy, reducing energy poverty and injustice, protecting the natural environment, and advancing achievements in the sustainable energy realm. My PhD research focused on revealing the less tangible Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) aspects of peer-to-peer energy sharing models. It was developed under the MIT Portugal programme on Sustainable Energy Systems at the University of Coimbra, which represents an international collaboration between MIT and the best Portuguese universities. I am a Senior Innovation Developer at Virtual Power Solutions (A Cleanwatts Company) - an energy holding company that aims to foster the innovative use of clean energy and improve energy efficiency through a suite of proprietary advanced digital technologies and collaborative platforms that simplify, amplify, and accelerate the energy decarbonisation for companies and communities around the world. Within my responsibilities, I am engaged in the tailoring and management of multimillion R&D projects on End-User Engagement, Social Value Creation, Energy Citizenship, Renewable Energy Communities, Local Energy Markets, User-Centric Energy Services, etc. Apart from that, I am the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of the EffiSummer startup, which aims to unlock new added value from CO2 emissions reduction measures. Fundamentally, this vision involves the conceptualisation of a platform that aggregates multiple small-scale CO2 emissions reduction achievements from end-users (through the promotion of energy efficiency, local renewables and energy flexibility at the community level) and then converts it into Guarantees or Origin or Certified/Voluntary Carbon Credits for partner corporates, who purchase it to either support their corporate social responsibility initiatives or comply with low-carbon regulations.
Read full resume ↓
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Lurian Pires Klein

Citation names

  • Klein, Lurian
  • Pires Klein, Lurian
  • Klein, L.
  • Pires Klein, L.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0014-EC29-0218
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0435-192X

Websites

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/09 - 2021/03
Ongoing
 Sistemas de Energias Sustentáveis - Iniciativa Energia para Sustentabilidade - MIT Portugal (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
"Revealing social values in the context of peer-to-peer energy sharing: a methodological approach" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009/01/01 - 2014/07/29
Concluded
 Engenharia Civil (Bachelor)
Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil
"Thermal performance of a high solar reflective roof and an extensive green roof in Melbourne, Australia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/02 - 2014/02
Concluded
 Study abroad programme (Postgraduate Certificate)
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/08 - 2019/09 Visiting Researcher (Research) The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research & The Nippon Foundation, Japan
LUT School of Engineering Science, Finland
2017/08 - 2017/10 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2013/05 - 2013/09 Contracted Researcher (Research) The University of Melbourne, Australia

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/10 - Current Co-founder and CIO (Chief Innovation Officer) Effisumer, Portugal
2016/08 - Current Senior Innovation Developer Cleanwatts, Portugal
2014/08 - 2014/12 Operations Director Movimento 90o, Brazil
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/10 - 2024/09 IANOS - IntegrAted SolutioNs for the DecarbOnization and Smartification of Islands
GA no. 957810
Technical development
Cleanwatts, Portugal
 Innovation and Networks Executive Agency
Ongoing
2020/07 - 2023/06 EVAI Charge - Artificial Intelligence Electric Vehicle Charge for low Carbon Building
GA no. 04719
Technical development
Cleanwatts, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação

Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização
Ongoing
2021 - 2023 GRETA - GReen Energy Transition Actions
GA no. 101022317
Technical development
Cleanwatts, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2019 - 2021 FleXunity - Scaling-up Power Flexible Communities empowered by Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
GA no. 870146
Technical development
Cleanwatts, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2018 - 2021 Flexigy - Energy Flexibility Services Platform
GA no. 034067
Technical development
Cleanwatts, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2017 - 2021 DOMINOES - Smart Distribution Grid: A Market Driven Approach for the Next Generation of Advanced Operation Models and Services
GA no. 771066
Technical development
Cleanwatts, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2017/01 - 2020/12 InteGRIDy - Integrated Smart GRID Cross-Functional Solutions for Optimized Synergetic Energy Distribution, Utilization Storage Technologies
GA no. 731268
Technical development
Cleanwatts, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded
2018/09 - 2020/08 sFlex - Small Loads Flexibility Management
GA no. 45405
Technical development
Cleanwatts, Portugal
 Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização
2017 - 2019 DREAM-GO - Enabling Demand Response for short and real-time efficient and market based smart grid operation
GA no. 641794
Technical development
Cleanwatts, Portugal
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Concluded
2016/09 - 2018/09 NetEffiCity - Virtual Power Networks Efficient Management
GA no. 18015
Principal investigator
Cleanwatts, Portugal
 Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização
Concluded
2017/08 - 2017/10 EMPATIA - Enabling Multichannel Participation Through ICT Adaptations
GA no. 687920
Investigador subcontratado (serviços de apoio às atividades de investigação)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Klein, Lurian; Matos, Luisa M.; Allegretti, Giovanni. "Capturing Values Within Peer-to-Peer Energy Sharing Systems". Paper presented in International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP) 2019 - Symposium on Sharing Power: A psychological perspective on peer-to-peer energy trading and collective energy schemes, Plymouth, 2019.
  2. Klein, Lurian; Allegretti, Giovanni; Hes, Dominique; Matos, Luisa M.. "A Social Values-Based Perspective on Peer-to-Peer Energy Sharing Systems". Paper presented in 5th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency (BEHAVE 2018), Zurique, 2018.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Sirpa, Repo; Olli, Kilkki; Annala, Salla; Klein, Lurian; Matos, Luisa M.; Sousa, José Eduardo; Albuquerque, Susete. "DOMINOES - a roadmap to integrated local energy market operation and management". Paper presented in 26th International Conference & Exhibition on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2021), Geneva, 2021.
  2. Maioui, Yassmine; Honkapuro, Samuli; Mendes, Goncalo; Chaves, Jessica; Krivoglazova, Aleksandra; da Silva, Nuno Pinho; Souza e Silva, Nuno; et al. "Comparative Assessment of Demand Response Participation in Selected European Balancing Market". Paper presented in 17th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), Estocolmo, 2020.
    Published • 10.1109/eem49802.2020.9221975
  3. Klein, Lurian; Matos, Luisa M.; Allegretti, Giovanni. "The Impact of a Tailored End User Engagement Framework on a Peer-to-Peer Energy Sharing Initiative: An Empirical Study". Paper presented in 4th International Conference on Energy and Environment: Bringing Together Engineering and Economics (ICEE 2019), Guimarães, 2019.
    Published
  4. Annala, Salla; Mendes, Goncalo; Honkapuro, Samuli; Matos, Luisa; Klein, Lurian. "Comparison of Opportunities and Challenges in Demand Response Pilots in Finland and Portugal". Paper presented in 15th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM 2018), Lódz, 2018.
    Published • 10.1109/eem.2018.8469894
  5. Klein, Lurian; Matos, Luisa M.; Landeck, Jorge. "Review on the main flexible residential loads with potential to participate in Demand Response Programmes". Paper presented in 4th DREAM-GO Workshop: Demand Response Approaches for Real-Time Renewable Energy Integration, Porto, 2018.
    Published
  6. Klein, Lurian; Matos, Luisa M.; Basílio, J.; Landeck, Jorge. "Community S: An Energy Sharing Approach Towards Energy Systems". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference on Energy and Environment - Bringing Together Engineering and Economics, Chapter XI - Energy Systems, Porto, 2017.
    Published
  7. Klein, Lurian; Landeck, Jorge; Matos, Luisa M.; Torres, Idália; Bernardes, Angela. "Cost-Benefit Comparison of a Time-of-Use Tariff and Real-Time Pricing of Electricity Associated with Automated HVAC Load Management Strategies in Bank Across Mainland Portugal". Paper presented in 2017 International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ 2017), Málaga, 2017.
    Published
  8. Klein, Lurian; Matos, Luisa M.; Carreira, Rita; Torres, Idália; Landeck, Jorge. "From Empirical to Intelligent Load Management in a Banking Energy Performance Contract". Paper presented in 2nd DREAM-GO Workshop: Real-Time Demand Response and Intelligent Direct Load Control, Salamanca, 2017.
    Published
  9. Klein, Lurian. "Effectiveness of the introduction of load shifting and Real-Time Pricing on the reduction of bank agencies' HVAC annual energy bills across Portugal". Paper presented in 3rd Energy for Sustainability International Conference (EfS2017) - Designing Cities and Communities for the Future, Funchal, 2017.
    Published
  10. Klein, Lurian; Henggeler Antunes, Carlos; Lopes, Marta; Hes, Dominique. "The value-adding role of social capital on net positive energy design at the regenerative neighborhood level". Paper presented in 4th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency (Behave 2016), Coimbra, 2016.
    Published
  11. Aye, Lu; Hes, Dominique; Williams, Nicholas; Livesley, Stephen; Klein, Lurian; Foliaki, Kakau. "Thermal performance of a high solar reflective roof and an extensive green roof in Melbourne". Paper presented in Solar 2014 Conference & Expo, Melbourne, 2014.
    Submitted
Conference poster
  1. Klein, Lurian. "The Impact of End User Engagement Strategies on Peer-to-Peer Energy Sharing Systems". Paper presented in Young Energy Efficiency Researchers Conference, World Sustainable Energy Days, Wels, Austria, 2019.
  2. Klein, Lurian. "NetEffiCity: Sustainable Energy Community Demonstration Project". Paper presented in Smart Cities Innovation & Knowledge Venue - Green Business Week 2017, 2017.
Journal article
  1. Annala, Salla; Honkapuro, Samuli; Narayanan, Arun; Sirpa, Repo; Olli, Kilkki; Klein, Lurian; Matos, Luisa M.. "Framework to Facilitate Electricity and Flexibility Trading within, to, and from Local Markets". Energies 14 3229 (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/en14113229.
    Open access • Published
  2. Pires Klein, Lurian; Allegretti, Giovanni; Hes, Dominique; Melkas, Helinä. "Revealing social values in the context of peer-to-peer energy sharing: A methodological approach". Sustainable Futures 3 (2021): 100043. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2021.100043.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.sftr.2021.100043
  3. Klein, Lurian; Matos, Luisa M.; Allegretti, Giovanni. "A pragmatic approach towards end-user engagement in the context of peer-to-peer energy sharing". Energy 205 (2020): 118001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.118001.
    Published • 10.1016/j.energy.2020.118001
  4. Pires Klein, Lurian; Krivoglazova, Aleksandra; Matos, Luisa; Landeck, Jorge; de Azevedo, Manuel. "A Novel Peer-To-Peer Energy Sharing Business Model for the Portuguese Energy Market". Energies 13 1 (2019): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13010125.
    Published • 10.3390/en13010125
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/03/06 User-Centric Energy Markets Models: End-Users at the Heart of the Energy Transition Movement Young Voices for the Energy Transition panel, Energy Efficiency Policy Conference, World Sustainable Energy Days
Regional Energy Agency of Upper Austria (Wels, Austria)
2020/03/05 Demand-Side Flexibility and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading: Renewable Energy Communities Young Energy Efficiency Researchers Conference, World Sustainable Energy Days
Regional Energy Agency of Upper Austria (Wels, Austria)
2019/11/05 Valuation of Peer-to-Peer Energy Sharing Systems Planetary Crisis: From Ecological Modernisation to Climate Justice panel - The Crisis and the Challenges of Democracy Workshop
Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/10/09 Community S Demonstration Project Pilot Cases in Portugal panel - I Conferência Internacional Comunidades de Energia
Coopérnico (Cooperativa de Energias Renováveis) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/06/26 The Impact of Blockchain Technology and Artificial Intelligence in the Conceptualisation of Virtual Energy Communities Workshop: A Aplicação da Inteligência Artificial e do Blockchain nas PMEs
Núcleo NERSANT de Abrantes (Abrantes, Portugal)
2018/12/07 ICT and the Digital Transformation Congress of Innovation on Sustainable Construction (CINCOS’18)
Cluster Habitat Sustentável, Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2018/11/07 Peer-To-Peer Energy Sharing Communities Initiate! Manifesto Main Stage – Fearless Transition: A New Energy Economy – Decentralised Power, European Utility Week 2018
(Vienna, Austria)
2018/10/01 Entrepreneurs' Testimonials Session 3 - Innovation & Entrepreneurship, MIT Portugal 2018 Annual Conference
MIT Portugal Initiative (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/05/24 NetEffiCity Project Panel 2 - Joint Actions for Energy Efficiency: Reference Projects, Local Cooperation for Energy Efficiency Conference
AREANATejo – Agência Regional de Energia e Ambiente do Norte Alentejano e Tejo (Ponte de Sor, Portugal)
2016/06/29 ZLARM Cool Project Session III – Planting the Seeds of Innovation, MIT Portugal Programme Innovation Day
MIT Portugal Initiative (Braga, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016/09/05 - 2016/09/10 I collaborated in the organisation of the 4th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency (Behave 2016) held at the University of Coimbra in Portugal between September 8-9, 2016 (2016/09/08 - 2016/09/09)
Conference (Other)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/02/17 - 2020/02/18 Participant in the 2nd meeting of the Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer, Community Self-Consumption & Transactive Energy Models at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Round table
 Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer, Community Self-Consumption & Transactive Energy Models
European University Institute, Italy
2019/09/02 - 2019/09/03 Participant in the launch of the Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer, Community Self-Consumption & Transactive Energy Models at the UCL Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom.
Round table
 Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer, Community Self-Consumption & Transactive Energy Models
University College London Institute of Education, United Kingdom
2019/07/04 - 2019/07/04 Exhibitor at Tech@Portugal - Mostra do Conhecimento e Inovação, Alfândega do Porto, Porto under the invitation of the Portuguese Innovation Office (Agência Nacional da Inovação - ANI).
Exhibition
 Tech@Portugal - Mostra do Conhecimento e Inovação
Agência Nacional de Inovação, Portugal
2019/06/22 - 2019/06/26 In the International Clean Energy Challenge, young innovators developed concrete energy solutions for sustainable energy in buildings, industry and transport through collaborative and interdisciplinary thinking across disciplines to tackle the clean energy transition.
Workshop
 International Clean Energy Challenge
Regional Energy Agency of Upper Austria, Austria
2019/06/03 - 2019/06/06 Exhibitor at the 25th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2019), Madrid, Spain.
Exhibition
 25th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2019)
2018/11/06 - 2018/11/08 Exhibitor at the European Utility Week 2018, Vienna, Austria.
Exhibition
 European Utility Week 2018
2018/07/30 - 2018/08/10 The Tsinghua-Santander World Challenges of 21st Century Programme represented an international interdisciplinary innovation competition that brought together postgraduate students to create visionary, innovative and unusual solutions to challenges in urban sustainability, addressing topics such as urban life, education, environmental protection, climate change, energy, health and sustainable development.
Call
 Tsinghua-Santander World Challenges of 21st Century Programme
Tsinghua University, China
2018/06/17 - 2018/06/22 The ETH Zurich Academy on Sustainability and Technology focused on integrating technologies, policies, strategies and entrepreneurship for a more sustainable economy. It provided a unique platform for PhD students to discuss their work with an audience of like-minded scholars and international faculty.
Workshop
 ETH Zurich Academy on Sustainability and Technology
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
2018/06/11 - 2018/06/15 The MIT International Workshop on Innovating was designed to expose participants to the critical elements that lead to venture creation. Participants had the opportunity to learn and interact with experts and successful entrepreneurs from the MIT ecosystem.
Workshop
 MIT International Workshop on Innovating
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
2017/10/12 - 2017/10/14 Exhibitor at Techdays Aveiro 2017, Aveiro, Portugal, October 12-14, 2017.
Exhibition
 Techdays Aveiro 2017
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017/10/03 - 2017/10/05 Exhibitor at European Utility Week 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Exhibition
 European Utility Week 2017
2017/08/17 - 2017/08/25 The Groningen Energy Summer School took an interdisciplinary approach to the societal and technological dimensions of the energy transition, offering a unique opportunity for PhD students to become aware of different aspects of the energy transition and to develop novel insights associated with the energy transition.
Workshop
 Groningen Energy Summer School
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
2017/07/24 - 2017/08/04 The São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Smart Cities covered multiple aspects of Smart Cities research and technology including mobile networks; internet of things; sustainability; visualisation; large-scale simulation; innovation; data privacy; machine learning; big data; and software frameworks.
Workshop
 São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Smart Cities
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2017/06/01 - 2017/06/01 Exhibitor at IoT Summit 2017, Lisbon, Portugal.
Exhibition
 IoT Summit 2017
Microsoft Portugal, Portugal
2016/01/15 - 2016/01/20 The MIT Portugal Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week was designed for participants to understand the potential of innovation beyond conventional research boundaries, as well as to use critical and systems thinking to foster a creative, critique, dynamic, innovative and entrepreneurial spirit.
Seminar
 MIT Portugal Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2014/01/06 - 2014/01/24 The Global Leaders in Science Programme aimed to develop the leadership potential in young scientists, fostered by engaging lectures from brilliant minds such as Prof. Peter Doherty (Nobel Prize recipient in 1996 in Physiology/Medicine) and Prof. David Karoly (Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2007), to name a few.
Seminar
 Global Leaders in Science Programme
The University of Melbourne, Australia

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019/09 - Current IEA DSM TCP Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading, Transactive Energy and Community/Collective Self-Consumption (GO-P2P) I am collaborating in the development of the world-leading international collaboration platform for policy-relevant socio-technical research on user-centred energy systems. The GO-P2P mission is to provide evidence from socio-technical research on the design, social acceptance and usability of clean energy technologies to inform policymaking for clean, efficient and secure energy.
2017/02 - Current Young leaders in Energy and Sustainability (YES) Europe As a member of YES Europe, I am inserted in a dynamic pan-European energy organisation that aims to connect young leaders in the fields of energy and sustainability

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2020/07/21 - 2020/07/24 16th EASA Biennial Conference - EASA2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe, Panel 020 - At the grid edge: homes, neighbourhoods and energy markets (Energy Anthropology Network) ISCTE and ICS, Lisbon

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/02 - 2021/03 Evaluation of a book proposal focused on energy communities at the invitation of Elsevier. Elsevier Ltd, United Kingdom

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2021/03 Interview about the Community S project for an article addressing the theme of renewable energy communities at Energuia (a supplement of Construção Magazine & Indústria e Ambiente - a techno-scientific reference magazine in civil engineering). Energuia - Construção Magazine & Indústria e Ambiente
Distinctions

Other distinction

2019 Sylff Research Abroad (SRA)
The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research & The Nippon Foundation, Japan
2017 Sylff Fellowship Programme
The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research & The Nippon Foundation, Japan
2013 Science Without Borders scholarship
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil