**About the Editors**

**Tom´as G ´omez San Rom ´an** is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Engineering School of Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain. Currently, he is the Director of Instituto de Investigacion Tecnol ´ ogica (IIT) at Comillas. He obtained the Degree of Doctor Ingeniero Industrial ´ from Universidad Politecnica, Madrid, in 1989, and the Degree of Ingeniero Industrial in Electrical ´ Engineering from Comillas in 1982. He joined IIT in 1984. From 1994 to 2000, he was also Director of IIT, and from 2000 to 2002, the Vice-Rector of Research, Development, and Innovation of Comillas. Prof. Gomez has a wealth of experience in industry joint research projects in the field ´ of Electric Energy Systems in collaboration with Spanish, Latin American, and European institutions. He has served as project manager and/or principal investigator in more than 80 research projects. His areas of interest are in operation and planning of transmission and distribution systems, power quality assessment and regulation, and economic and regulatory issues in the electrical power sector. He has published more than 100 articles in different specialized journals, such as *IEEE PES Transactions*, in addition to conference proceedings and has co-authored the book "Electricity Economics: Regulation and Deregulation" in Wiley-IEEE Press. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is President of the Council of the Power System Computation Conference and serves or has served on the technical committees of other conferences such as Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems and IEEE Power Tech. He has been Visiting Researcher at the Energy Analysis Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. From May 2011 to October 2013, he served as commissioner at the Spanish Energy Commission (CNE).

**Jos´e Pablo Chaves-Avila ´** is Research Professor at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) at the Engineering School (ICAI) of the Comillas Pontifical University. Since October 2016, he has been leading and operating agent of the Academy of the International Smart Grids Action Network. From August 2020, he was appointed as member of the Expert Advisory List of the Comision Regional ´ de Interconexion El ´ ectrica (CRIE). In 2008, he obtained his bachelor's in Economics from University ´ of Costa Rica (Costa Rica). As part of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Economics and Management of Network Industries, he holds a master's in the Electric Power Industry from ICAI and master's in Digital Economics and Network Industries from Paris Sud-11 University (Paris, France). In 2014, he obtained the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate on Sustainable Energy Technologies and Strategies Degree at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), a joint program with Comillas Pontifical University and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. His areas of interests are energy economics, integration of renewable resources and distributed energy resources in the electricity sector, smart grids, and regulation of the electricity and gas sectors. He has more than 30 national and international publications in journals and conference proceedings on these topics. Jose Pablo has ´ been Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute (Italy), the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. During his postdoc, he participated in the Utility of the Future project, a joint project between IIT and MIT.
