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This paper comments on “Resource scheduling under uncertainty in a smart grid with renewables and plug-in vehicles” by [A. Y Saber and G. K. Venayagamoorthy]. There are several computational aspects in this paper that can be made more accurate with respect to the presented formulation and final results. Moreover, the conclusion of this paper contains some inaccuracies regarding plug-in vehicles. This...
A level European countries, Italy counts with the higher number of smart meters deployment in its net electricity. Nowadays, ENEL, Italy's largest electric utility has installed 40 million smart meters based on PLC with an innovative remote management system called Telegestore. Smart metering based on PLC is the natural backbone and the first step toward Smart Grid. Nevertheless, the technology is...
Buildings consume a significant amount of electricity, which is normally generated from dirty sources causing an increase in carbon footprints. To reduce carbon footprint, distributed renewable energy generation has been proposed. However, the amount of renewable energy harvested normally does not match the amount of energy consumed in individual homes. To address this mismatch, we propose a distributed...
In the present study, the most important parameters that affect the performance of a solar chimney power plant are investigated. The plant has a collector area of 7000 m diameter and a tower of 1000 m height. Under certain weather conditions, the results obtained show that the maximum electrical power of this plant can be reached in June and can be up to 119 MW. This amount of electrical power, which...
The transition between the power market competition and these emerging renewable power system alternatives (wind turbines, solar plants, micro-turbine), has awaken a great deal of interest for distributed power generation. Distributed Generation comprise in low power generators (typically lower than 50 MW), installed within the area of the main power consumption to ensure the growth of the existent...
The assessment of photovoltaic technologies using multiple perspectives such as social, technological, economic, environmental, and political (STEEP) have become increasingly important in the last several years. Each perspective is composed of multiple criteria with the social and political perspectives gaining more significance. A hierarchical decision model using expert judgment quantification was...
The use of solar energy in Northern countries is not as obviously reasonable as in the countries that are located closer to the Equator due to bigger differences of daytime during changes of seasons, as well as lower solar irradiance. This paper investigates the advantages of using a heliostat with non-rotating solar energy receivers (like water/air heating collectors, stationary PV panels or solar...
In the field of Engineering Education, performing practical experiments is essential, as an accompaniment to magisterial classes, in order to enforce theoretical and practical concepts. This task is much more difficult in distance education since students attend mainly to virtual classes. Therefore, the use of remote laboratories can help minimize this inconvenient. In addition, remote laboratories...
The Project to Integrate Technical Communication Habits (PITCH) is being implemented in the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven across seven engineering and computer science undergraduate programs. PITCH develops written, oral and visual communication skills in students starting in the very first semester and continuing through all four years of each program. Communication...
Sustainable energy is the sustainable provision of sustainable energy development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Technologies that promote sustainable energy are mainly based on renewable energy sources, such as hydroelectricity, solar energy, wind energy, wave power, geothermal energy, bio-energy, tidal power and also...
The surprising rates of electrification have experienced numerous populated counties in Asian region such as Bangladesh, Indian, China and Indonesia. To meet the increased demand for both power and grid services across the region will require innovation approach and the term discrete power system microgrid has introduced. As the reliability and quality of power demand have increased day by day, power...
The global microgrid market is promptly flourishing as government and private sector willingly to support actively. Todays, many countries and government have encouraged installing renewable energy farms for example wind farms and solar farms etc., and huge research has started in various aspect of it at the university level. The energy market in the United States is the largest market which has already...
In order to more effectively use solar energy, a three-dimensional (3D) photovoltaic module using Fibonacci numbers, hereafter referred to as a Fibonacci numbers photovoltaic module (FPM), has been proposed. In our previous report, it was shown that the power generation of an FPM, which is designed with multiple stages that mimic natural leaf arrangements, exceeds that of a conventional planar PV...
The use of renewable energy sources are rapidly increasing as alternatives to conventional sources. As Turkey having a great potential of renewable sources, the consciousness of community is a very significant issue for the development in this area. A survey of renewable energy awareness is conducted in this paper; implemented on university students from multiple disciplines. In order to determine...
Traditionally, the energy systems area, or any science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics (STEM) area, in general, has been male- dominated. Because of this, women in these fields have had a tendency to stand down when it comes to aiding in innovation and practicing a profession within specific fields, such as energy systems. To counteract this effect, research and educational activities...
The paper presents one of the first discussions on the new Solar Atlas of Saudi Arabia which was launched in Feb 2104. The solar atlas data comprises of live data recording from 70 stations across the country. The current paper presents the solar maps of the country through various months. The solar maps show that the DNI in various regions of the country ranges from approximately 9.0 kWh/m2/ day...
Shifting towards higher penetration of diverse renewable energy sources (RESs) in power systems is motivated mainly by reducing carbon emissions. In the long term of several decades, which we refer to in terms of the future grid (FG), balancing between supply and demand will become more challenging. Also, displacing conventional generators with RESs, especially inverter-based and intermittent RESs,...
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