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J.J. (Joel) Alpizar Castillo
J.J. (Joel) Alpizar Castillo
Profile
Biography
Joel Alpízar-Castillo received the bachelor's and graduate's joint degree in mechatronics engineering from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology in 2018, and a master in applied sciences in senior international management from the Complutense University of Madrid and a master of business administration with emphasis in project management from the Cerem International Business School joint degree in 2021. He pursued an internship in control and modelling with the Ocean Grazer at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, in 2018. From 2018 to 2020 he worked as Project Engineer in solar systems and microgrids at Purasol Vida Natural, Costa Rica. From 2018 to 2021 was a Lecturer in control systems and instrumentation at the Fidélitas University. From 2018 to 2021 chaired the national technical committee on PV systems, and from 2020 to 2021 also the national technical committee in Smart Cities, of the Technical Standards Institute of Costa Rica (INTECO). Since 2021 he is a PhD candidate in energy storage systems at the Delft University of Technology, with research interests in multi-carrier energy storage and ancillary services.
Expertise
Publications
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2024
Modelling and evaluating different multi-carrier energy system configurations for a Dutch house
Joel Alpízar-Castillo / Laura M. Ramírez-Elizondo / Pavol Bauer
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2023
A practical method for considering shading on photovoltaics systems energy yield
Victor Vega-Garita / Veronica Alpizar-Gutierrez / Joel Alpízar-Castillo
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2023
Aging-Aware Battery Operation for Multicarrier Energy Systems
Dario Slaifstein / Joel Alpizar Castillo / Alvaro Menendez Agudin / Laura Ramirez Elizondo / Gautham Ram Chandra Mouli / Pavol Bauer
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2023
Insight into the Characterization of Sea-Salt Batteries
Sang Jae Kouwerberg / J.J. Alpizar Castillo / L.M. Ramirez Elizondo / P. Bauer
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2023
Open-Access Model of a PV–BESS System
Quantifying Power and Energy Exchange for Peak-Shaving and Self Consumption Applications
Joel Alpizar Castillo / Victor Vega-Garita / Nishant Narayan / Laura Ramirez Elizondo -
Ancillary activities
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2023-10-19 - 2025-10-19