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This paper presents a case study from a project in Arusha region (north Tanzania), aiming at improving access to electricity in secondary schools through the establishment of a social enterprise, in charge of promoting rural electrification by applying the “4As Framework” with an innovative way and business structure. The work highlights benefits and challenges from the field, in order to drawn some...
This paper presents the application of a business case model for the implementation decisions to be done by utility companies. The goal is to modernize the grid and their business, leveraging the potential of the smart grid (SG) for the benefit of the company and the customers (economically and socially), as well as the environment.
This paper reviews the high performance technical computing (HPTC) applications in Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator INC (Midwest ISO or MISO) various operation functions. The paper briefly describes the day ahead market, real time market and FTR market. Its ancillary service market design is presented as an example of the application of the high performance technical computing. The...
With an increased focus on national security and public safety communications, the US Congress revisited its plan to reclaim television broadcaster frequencies to be reallocated and auctioned by the FCC and it specifically allocated a portion of that spectrum for use by public safety. The FCC was charged with the duty of auctioning this spectrum and licensing it to create a public safety network....
A critical infrastructure (CI) consists of those physical and information technology facilities, networks, services and assets which, if disrupted or destroyed, have a serious impact on the health, safety, security or economic well-being of citizens or the effective functioning of governments. Nowadays, the operation controls of these infrastructures have been computerized and have gradually become...
As digital resources increasingly growing and the economic benefit of digital intellectual property rights being increasingly important, people has been increasingly emphasis on information security issues brought by the data remnants in storage devices. They try their best to prevent the potential risks. In this paper, we survey comprehensively related technologies, standards and trends of erasure,...
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