E2TES (Energy Efficient Technologies in Electrical Systems) is a research group created in 2018, located at the Electrical Machine’s Laboratory of the Scientific Area of Energy in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). Through a significant number of publications, participation in EU projects and other international R&D projects, the unit acquired experience and global competence in the field of Applied Electromagnetics and Energy Conversion.

Application of advanced materials in the design, construction, and testing of novel electrical machines has been the core of our research in the last 24 years, now represented by the research developed at E²TES (Energy Efficient Technologies in Electrical Systems) founded by Associate Prof. Paulo Branco and Assistant Prof. João Fernandes, currently having 6 Ph.D. students and 15 M.Sc. students.

The E2TES’s team has been actively engaged in development of New magnetic materials and Superconductivity Applications for Electric Power Systems for the past 15 years as a) superconducting fault current limiters, b) magnetic levitation systems, c) design of  electromechanical energy converters, d) the development of 2D/3D multiphysics finite-element-modeling of novel magnetic and HTS materials and e) cryogenic conventional and superconducting electrical machines. In the recent past years, this group is being focused in the development of future electric machines for electric mobility (vehicles and aviation).