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Considering the recent global interest in reducing energy consumption, SiC technology is now ready to enable the step to the next plateau for efficiency standards. The reduction in power losses that this technology provides in power conversion systems is enabling a quicker adoption of alternative energy systems, improving existing technology and allowing a reduction in future fossil-fuel consumption...
The emergence of cloud computing has established a trend towards building massive, energy-hungry, and geographically distributed data centers. Due to their enormous energy consumption, data centers are expected to have major impact on the electric grid by significantly increasing the load at locations where they are built. However, data centers and cloud computing also provide opportunities to help...
The necessity to significantly enhance efficiency of transportation vehicles in response to global warming issues and to ever-increasing oil prices is recognized around the world. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEV's) were the first proposed solution to reduce energy consumption, however much additional improvement is necessary. Benefits of HEV's include a smaller internal combustion engine (ICE), the...
This paper describes a Net Present Value (NPV) model based on probability distributions to assess the financial returns of the small wind power projects with special emphasis in homeowner projects. The probability distributions were employed to reproduce the stochastic behavior of wind power generation, spot market, retail prices, household energy consumption and CO2 allowances trading. The proposed...
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